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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    ER: Seeking a future version of IBM Connections Files will offer the user an option to include a password with an uploaded encrypted file

    Offer the end user an option to include a password with an uploaded encrypted file. As an Administrator, I need the ability to turn File Encryption ON by default.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to control directory service cache refresh and instant update when employee role is changed

    Customer would like to see the directory service cache refresh immediately upon changing the employee roll via rest call to update the EMPLOYEErole to EMPLOYEE.EXTNEDED through Ð/profiles/admin/atom/profileRoles.doÓ or wsadmin command. https://www...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Tool for administrators to quickly and easily make Connections profiles changes for users

    Security policy denies users access to change their personal information in Connections Cloud Profiles. To update their information, they have been using the Integration Server solution which they find quite hard to handle. Even minor changes like...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    File explorer widget should show a message for non invited memebers

    After adding more channels in Highlights at the Files Explorer widget, but I am not a member of the community, for example, it would be nice if the info is displayed to the end-user instead of just remaining blank. 1) Create community with members...
    almost 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    External Content Site Documentation

    Would like a description of each External site, all we have is the gather url
    almost 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Needs Clarification

    Add views in the desktop plugin to show all locked files (in personal and community files!)

    With locking now becoming more prevalent now the desktop plugin allows for automatic locking (great addition!), it would be great to add views to easily identify locked files: Each person should have a view that shows all files locked by them, reg...
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Docs cluster name remain by uninstall

    The customer uninstalled Docs by IM. Uninstalling HCL Docs components using the installer https://help.hcltechsw.com/docs/v2.0/onprem_2.0/2.0_CR3_install_guide/guide/text/uninstalling_installer.html However, the following cluster name remain on We...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    3rd party repo Docs integration and Protected cells feature

    Now there is no possibility to choose from the list of users an user who can edit protected cells in Docs Spreedsheet Editor. This works only for integration with HCL Connections. With 3rd party repository there is no api to do that.
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    I would like to set the first item in the font list of Docs Editor with what I want.

    I just have a simple request about Font in Docs Editor. When the user tried to create new word document, the user can see the first font name is "Arial" Docs Editor. But the user want to see the other font item in the first level of font list. I w...
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Adjust folder sorting in the Files app

    It is currently not possible to sort the folders in the Files app as desired. It would be great if each user could individually adjust the sorting of the folders in the Webview. For example by folder size or by name.
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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