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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    Restrict access to members of a community for a pre-defined time

    We use communities in which we share confidential data with user outside our own domain. In most cases we want to restricted the access to this data by our guest for a limited time.We like to have an enhancement in the system so that we can define...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    An option to allow all communities to be filtered by guest users

    In a Community Members tab there is an option to "Filter by: People from an outside organisation" to display guests from outside a community. This can only be used one community at a time to check guest users for a community. This enhancement requ...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to change the order of existent subcommunities

    It would be great to be able to change the order of appearence of the subcommunities inside the "Subcommunities" widget / on the Subcommunities list on the left side of the parent community. sortable by creation date, amount of members, alphabetic...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Ability to configure connections so thay highlighted elements (blog entry url links) can be empty or removed completely.

    No description provided
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Customization of level details sent by email notification (newsletter) for updates/comments of content in Communities

    IT would great to have a option to set the detail level/customization of information/format of community news letters. The customization should be set per community level. This for IBM Connetion Cloud. The scenario is that often the mail box ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Notify the community owner when member add/leave the community.

    Function request to send notification to the community owner when the member add/leave the community.Community owner would like to know the change of community member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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