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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    Currently only users with Administrator role can view metrics. Create different role that will allow users to just access metrics

    Give people rights to view Metrics of Connections Cloud without requiring that they are in the Administrator group.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Support for viewing and editing of files with encryption methods other than RC4

    Steps to reproduce issue: Using MS Office Word 2013 create a document and then use the option "File" --> "Protect Document" --> "Encrypt with Password" After the file is encrypted with password upload to IBM Connections Cloud "My Files" Afte...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to set the "dark mode" for the Mobil app

    User with "visual impairment" can use , work better with the mobile when the app could offer an an dark mode like iOS. Requested is a switch with two options like dark or normal mode,view to the mobil app.
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks.

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks of other users. As of now, to delete an unwanted Bookmark, you have to run some WSAdmin Commands: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connecti...
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Display "shared with" information in files overviews

    Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review

    Deleting folders doesn't delete files within that folder

    If a folder is deleted inside a Community, the files that were contained in the folder are not deleted. Instead they are still available in the "All files" section of the Community. Only the association of the file with the folder is being deleted...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Enabled the option deep linking on mobile Connections on prem

    In case users are receiving mail notifications on IOS mail links to Connections app are not working anymore. Please support the mobile worker and improve this mobile experience. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connectionsmobile/admin/overview/conn_mobi...
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Enable/Allow AVIF Format

    Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

    Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
    about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Let the user configure mobile push notifications just like browser push and email notifications

    On the user notification settings, there should be another column for configuring mobile push notifications (just like the single event email column is). This would allow to use mobile push more than email push, which floods my inbox.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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