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 handling of deleted folders

    Files application works in a way that when you are working on that specific folder, and you open another application, and then go back to Files application, the system will redirect you to the last folder you visited. If someone deletes that folde...
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Microsoft Office shows UUID instead of folder names at the overview with recently opened files

    If I open for example Microsoft Word and want to open a recently used file it shows only the UUID of the folder instead of the name. This is very confusing since we have often the case that a file has the same name but is from different communitie...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Find inactive (= unused) communities

    As an admin of the system there should be also the option not only do filter and find communities (via CAT tool or wsadmin commands) which are inactive in case of the last timestamp of the updated/edited date property (e.g. community has been upda...
    about 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Ask user to confirm that he is aware that he is uploading to an externally accessible community when using the plugins to upload a file to an external community

    There is no differentiation between internal/external communities in the plugins. Therefor users can easily place documents in external communities without realizing they do so. Ideally a user should be prompted (popup with OK/CANCEL) when droppin...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Allow "Track Changes" also for Powerpoint files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on powerpoint files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Powerpoint files.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Admin feature to collect and search all access log - especially when and who accessed what Connections contents.

    I think that all access log is written in Metics DB.Please provide a SQL tool to export access log from Metrics DB by specifying the start date and end date as parameters.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Provide overview of files being followed

    As long as downloaded files are being followed by default, which you might like/want or not, my notification overview is floaded with updates to files that I don't care about. Of course i can go to the file and unfollow, but wouldn't it be far mor...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Show TODO for Everyone also in your Notes Calendar through the Connections plugin

    When i create a TODO in Connections for my team ( Community ) and create a link inside my Calendar, this TODO is not visible for anyone. Only when i assign people to a todo, it will popup in the Calendar in Notes. Please allow Notes to add the T...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Folder and file sharing authorization

    To be more organized, it will better that, for example, we can share a parent folder with all users and every subfolder with only one group. So users can see and access the parent folder but they can not access all subfolder.
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Hope to add "Allow editors of the folder to edit this file" in creating or editing document

    When user upload new document in a shared folder, there is check box "Allow editors of the folder to edit this file", the default value is allowing editing document. When user did uncheck this check box uploading document, any other guy in the sha...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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