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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    Share by link also for anonymous users

    A new feature share-by-link introduced in 6.0 CR4 still requires users (who receive the link) to log in in Connections to be able to access the shared file. However, users expect that the links should work for everybody, i.e. for all anonymous use...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files.
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Request to update Component Pack Helm charts to apiVersion v2

    The Helm charts included with Component Pack 7.0.0.2 are compatible with Helm v3, but there are charts with apiVersion v1 (e.g. charts associated with Elasticsearch). This request is to update all charts for all images to apiVersion v2.
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Same functions for the uploaded files

    If a file is uploaded to the files app, you can use the files viewer, edit in Docs, can have multiple versions and so on. These functions are missing for files directly attached to Wikis, Activities, Forums and Blogs. Please give us here the same ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Multiple file upload on Android IBM connections client

    I take photos with my cell phone while on the road or conferences / exhibitions. I'd like being able to upload big batches of files to my IBM Connections Cloud files space with ease, not one-by-one
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Stopping legacy Activities application

    There is nothing in the documentation that we could find that would indicate that it is possible to run Boards without Activities running. It seems as though you should be able to, but it turns out you can't. Is there any way of stopping legacy Ac...
    about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

    Provide a possibility to accept or reject membership request for moderated community in Orient Me

    It's not possible in OM to accept or reject a community membership request for a moderated community. The owner just sees the update in his "Responses" of Orient Me, but cannot act on it. The link of the person's name goes into his profile. The li...
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Manually order Bookmarks

    It should be possible to manually order the Bookmarks in a community. Now the latest bookmark is the first one. Users want to make their own order.
    almost 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Video player improvement

    It would be great to have a video player has a play speed controller. Generally, the way to integrate and play videos and upload e.g. easily from mobile really needs to be looked at.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

    CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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