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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    Help Application Display Language

    As of now the HCL Connections Help application does not have a default language setting, nor does it change according to the "preferred language" browser setting of users. Please enhance the Help application to: 1) Allow changes of the default lan...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Disable status updates for multiple file uploads

    When uploading many files at once to a community, e.g. pics taken at a trade fair or so, each upload generates a separate status update. So inadvertently I spam all my followers starting page. It's annoying. Why not have a checkbox or message dial...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Allow multiple file and picture upload in status updates

    Our users request to be able to uplaod more that one picture to the status update in order to display images from events etc.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Connections search shall not be exact

    ConNext search shall support partial match — not requires to use wildcards. Moreover current wildcard search does not support special characters. (bug) .
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Add Connections content to HCLSoftware U

    Please add Connections content to HCLSoftware U. Connections is really versatile, we need extensive examples / howto's / best practices / certification Because the posibilities are endless, starting users would immensely benefit from more examples...
    almost 2 years ago in 14. Documentation 1 Needs Review

    Possibility to change owner of a single file

    Currently there is no possibility also for admins to change the owner of a file. We have a number of users who had to be removed from our system. The owner of their files cannot be changed. Please let us know how to change the owner of a file.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Like history limited to 25. Requesting the ability to override this limitation

    If more than 25 people like content in Connections (e.g. Status Updates, comments, Blog posts, files, wiki pages, forum topics and replies, etc.) only 25 people are shown in the list. Please remove the limit
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Add file to different folders within community

    We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Safe migration path from CCM to Files

    CCM feature has an unclear future, would be good to have a standard migration Path from CCM to Files. Filenet integration is really complex and with an high volume of files is not quite easy to manage.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

    So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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