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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    Notification for public file folder only in case you follow this folder or the owner

    In Connections 6.5 we use a lot the feature of a personal public folder to share files to all Connections users. In case a file is added or changed now all user are notified. This is not useful and disturbing. Please make it possible to change this.
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Multiple File Upload in Media Gallery

    A user should be able to upload multiple images / videos at once into the media gallery. Again like facebook, this process should be quick & easy.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Please add additional fields in communities

    We would like to see custom community extension fields (similar to Profiles) which would allow the user to e.g. maintain confidentiality level, archiving status, community sponsor, community type, etc.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Notify people about this update and mail notification

    If a file is edited and the checkbox "Notify people about this update" is checked, the people do not receive a notification but only an e-mail as notification.If a person has deactivated the e-mail notification, they will not receive a notificatio...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    add a third tab on members to see requests for membership in communities

    When I have a community that is limited, and require people to request membership I get a notification in the web and per mail. In the Members-app there is are two tabs. One with Members and one with Invitation. Could you please make a third one t...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Fix "Following Concept" in case of folder shared with a community

    Scenario. A Folder is shared with a community and the community is "owner" of this folder. This is not a community folder but it is owned by the community and visible within the community. If a user follows this community, the user is notified abo...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Fix a language bug in Connections

    The plural of Communitiy is Communites, not Communitys. This word naturally pops up in many places, you simply have to fix it, please. I am referring specifically to the German version of Connections. If you look below under "category", there you ...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 No Plans to Implement

    Customize default email settings for community members

    Currently community email settings has below options: 1) Members can email the entire community 2) Members can email owners only 3) Members cannot email others We would like to keep option #2 from above and remove the option #1 in regards to who m...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Introduce option for Restricted Access to all Communities for certain users (Profiles)

    Even that it sounds strange in social software, in some cases (e.g. short term employed person working in a project) line of business requests that users even can access public or moderated communities is case that they are a named member.Please i...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Cloud: an FTP or WEBDAV access for cloud users to download files.

    Customer want a FTP or WEBDAV way to download files from Connections Cloud. Currently, customer can download community files from UI, but all these files will lost their folder structure. Customer need to a way to download files with folder struct...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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