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

    Community: Option to notify all community members

    When using "Notify other people" in a community blog there is no option to select all community members. Instead you would have to tick evey single member. That is very cumbersome.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 9 Future 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

    Community Wiki navigation improvements

    Consider large wikis with '000s of pages and children. The wiki navigation is not friendly. This area needs to be improved with user defined navigation capabilities such as self built drop-down lists. having a drop down list to a page linking you ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 4 Under Consideration

    Duplicate Horizontal Scrollbars in Wiki when ITM is Active and Browser Resized

    We are seeing a 'double scrollbar' conflict in the Wiki component. When the browser width is reduced, the iframe and the main container each generate their own horizontal scrollbar. This is triggered when the ITM bar is visible. We need a way to f...
    2 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Scaling down and enlarge of pictures should be possible in every wiki

    Unfortunately it is not possible to scale down pictures in a wiki and give the user the possibility to enlarge those by clicking it. This features is very common in nearly every Homepage and other wikis. As we are not sharing our holiday pictures ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 8 Future 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

    I wish I could save DRAFTS of wiki pages - before saving as published

    So I can draft and edit - for days - a page that is not yet public. (another way and maybe better way to handle this is allow me to restrict view permissions to myself or a small group) (this is purposeful by the user - not the auto-save ability)
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 10 Under Consideration
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