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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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Create one single repository for all files & attachments so behavior is uniform across all elements of IBM Connections

Currently personal files, community files, (if available) CCM files, blog attachments, forum attachments, wiki attachments and activity attachments are all stored in individual and separate file repositories with their own limits, behaviors and op...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

Share a file with expiry date.

Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
11 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Thumbnails for files in Desktop plugin

In the desktop plugin.. the plugin should display the thumbnails of images as the Windows explorer does. When browsing through files using MS Windows Explorer, previews are shown in the form of thumbnails for many content types. This includes almo...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under 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 Communitie...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Events and Activities integration to Callendar, across multiple groups

Goal of this idea is to be able to view and manage person's Events and Activity tasks at one place, across different groups. - It would be very useful if Activity tasks with set date was added to the calendar the same way as Event. - Showing ...
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Preview Files for Anonymous User

If an organization has anonymous user (e.g. workers not having/using a computer and therefore not having an account/email) which occasionally need to check the news in Connections, they are unable to see (preview) the content of public files. Plea...
about 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 No Plans to Implement

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...
over 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

Upgrade the LibreOffice version that is used in Docs to a supported version

There are customers that are regulated and are not allowed to use software which are already out of support or already reached the end of life. LibreOffice 7.2 is already out of support which is packaged in the Docs install package from HCL.
7 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

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 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

reinstate Elasticsearch Standalone support for Connections v7+

Customers are forced to setup Kubernetes envoirnments if they want to continue using Metrics & Quicksearch for Connections - v7 & v8 only support Kubernetes-Elasticsearch. For most small customers (<1500 users) Kubernetes deployment is ...
about 1 year ago in  0 Needs Review