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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    Allow community owners to decide how they want the files in their community sorted

    Currently files in community files/folders are sorted by last edit date. Sometimes owners want it to be sorted alphabetically. Please allow community owners a setting to do this. As an example, in CCM libraries this is also possible .
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Video Playback on Apple Devices

    The integrated video player, which is used to preview videos uploaded to Files, does not work in Safari on macOS nor in Mobile Safari on iOS or iPadOS. Please upgrade the player to support those devices.
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 Already Exists

    Invite needs to be enhanced - For Guest users we need an allocation to the inviting person

    The information who invited the guest user is for us and for many other customers important and mandatory. When you invite an external, you must be set/pointed as the owner of that external user in order to know who invited who. You must be set re...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration

    ICXT Export as PDF

    It would be nice, if there is a possibility to improve the GUI from ICXT. If you have in an Community the Wiki App, with many Wiki pages, and you open the ICXT function (Export as PDF), You have the problem, all pages are selected, better would be...
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Share by link also for anonymous users

    A new feature share-by-link introduced in 6.0 CR4 still requires users (who receive the link) to log in in Connections to be able to access the shared file. However, users expect that the links should work for everybody, i.e. for all anonymous use...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files.
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Additional Add a Topic Button

    ​I publish a lot of topics in a row. Is there a way to insert a "Add a Topic"-button in the topic view? Until now I have to jump back to the Forum-view and have to click the button there.
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Future Consideration

    Request to update Component Pack Helm charts to apiVersion v2

    The Helm charts included with Component Pack 7.0.0.2 are compatible with Helm v3, but there are charts with apiVersion v1 (e.g. charts associated with Elasticsearch). This request is to update all charts for all images to apiVersion v2.
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Same functions for the uploaded files

    If a file is uploaded to the files app, you can use the files viewer, edit in Docs, can have multiple versions and so on. These functions are missing for files directly attached to Wikis, Activities, Forums and Blogs. Please give us here the same ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Multiple file upload on Android IBM connections client

    I take photos with my cell phone while on the road or conferences / exhibitions. I'd like being able to upload big batches of files to my IBM Connections Cloud files space with ease, not one-by-one
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration
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