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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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Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner ...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Add more actions for multiple files selected inside a community

If you select multiple files inside a community, Connections only shows the action to download all files selected. The system need to show other actions like delete, add tags, share, etc for multiple files selected
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Make My Drive, All Files and Folders available in every Windows Save and Open Dialog

Only certain applications see the Connections My Drive and Connections Cloud options in the Save and Open dialog boxes. When these don't appear in an application, you cannot save or open files directly in the application with Connections. Adobe pr...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

Display files without folder association in Community folder view as files in root folder

Currently it is hardly possible to distinguish between files that are placed in a specific folder and files that are only visible in the Files view of the Community library (files that have been uploaded directly to the Files section), since all C...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Allow Desktop plugin to sync certain user-defined folders and its subfolders with My Files

in S1 you have 1Tb space available but can't use it to backup you local work folder to the cloud. its way more convinient to have the whole local folder and its subfolders synced with My Files. and be able to change files localy so that they chang...
almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Already Exists

Update the Owner of the Community to a Group name.

Use Case: Customer is using the HCL connections product, and they have communities created inside HCL Connections products. The user with the owner and administrator privileges for these communities have left the organization and their account fro...
7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration