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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    Automatically upgrade desktop plugin

    We would like to suggest an auto-update feature for the IBM Connections File Sync and Share Desktop Plug-In. A number of improvements have been made to this plug-in recently, however our users often run old versions and struggle with issues which ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 8 Under Consideration

    Make the format (H1, bold, italic, etc.) from the Blogentry available in the Newswidgets

    The newswidget does not differnciate and shows only plain text, even if there is formated text in the Blogentry. It makes it more difficult to read. Please change and make the format available also in the widgets.
    24 days ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Add the option to set a URL in Rules home page personalization to "allmycommunities" page

    In ICEC Settings > Home Page personalisation > Edit personalization there is an option to select community pages as well as engagement center pages (XCC) but there is no option to redirect users to "all my communites". Sometimes our customer...
    about 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plug-in file locked status is displayed incorrectly

    When user closes a file that has been locked, the status of the file in desktop plugin windows explorer remains locked even if the file has been unlocked. Users need to refresh the windows explorer to change the state of the file. It would be help...
    5 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Viewing and editing of documents or powerpoint with charts

    Currently, Viewing and editing of charts remains a limitation in Docs 2.0.2. When you open to view or edit a PPT or documents that contains charts, it will not be displayed. It is only possible to display charts if this will be converted to images...
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugin - Suppress Sync Errors During Server Maintenance (Maintenance Mode)

    Idea: Implement a logic within the HCL Connections Desktop Plugin that detects when the server is in a designated "Maintenance State" (e.g. HTTP 503 or HTTP 540) and temporarily suppresses user-facing error pop-ups. User Story: From the Administra...
    4 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Make Desktop plugin to appear as a drive/location in Windows

    Please change the way desktop plugin is presented in Windows - make it available in all open/save dialogues so we can work with Connections files from any application. It should appear the same way as Dropbox, Box.com etc. For example, I need fre...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    Ability to apply default/template view to Desktop Plugin folder views in Windows

    Requesting the ability to apply folder template view to the way the Desktop Plugin displays folder contents in Windows.
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

    Add social media widgets

    To add the social media channels our customers are using a third party tool like elfsight or others. Our customers are complaining about that the competing products like sharepoint have an option (widget) where social media channels can be configu...
    10 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Document version comparison

    Is there a way to easily view the changes between two different versions of the same document in the newest version of the document? We are looking for a tool that compare vision against each other Other than: It seems that the only way to tell wh...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement
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