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HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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Useful email notifications

You have recently changed email notifications so they they are in rich text format (which looks nice) but has removed the direct links to threads and authors (removed functionality). Please put those back, and stop asking me to hunt around Connect...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 5 Future Consideration

Hope comments inside WORD document can be supported by Docs Viewer

Tested on 2.0 CR3 ifix009.After uploading a word file to Files, got below error when viewing it:The file cannot be imported into Viewer. There is something in this file that Viewer does not support at this time. This file cannot be imported. Openi...
about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Future Consideration

Allow users to remove themselves from a file shared with them

The list of "files shared with me" contains files other people shared with you and can be quite extensive. Sometimes these include files people are no longer interested in or feel they shouldn't have access to (GDPR). At the moment, only the origi...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Don't show restricted communities where you are NOT a member in Community Overview

It is possible that somebody creates a restricted community and checks the option to show community name to the organisation. If you where a member in the past for that community, but not anymore, you still see the community in "My Communities" ...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Support Full "SAML 2.0 single logout" in WAS/Connections.

Full "SAML 2.0 single logout" in WAS/Connections. The functionality should cooperate with Microsoft ADFS and should be tested with Microsoft ADFS. Currently there is no support for this feature as per: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community...
almost 6 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Future Consideration

Make locked files more visible

Locked files have an icon indicating it in the list view and the custom view only. If a externally shared file is locked, there's no indicator in the grid view. Only the yellow link appears. If a file is locked, it should be more visible. Maybe so...
almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

support for HCL Connections Mail Plug-in to work with Microsoft 365 Mail

We would like to use the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in with O365. Unfortunately this is not supported at this time. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/connectionsmail/v6.5/Deploying/icm_admin.html Please enhance Connections Mail Plug-in support...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration