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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    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name, no additional metadata such as the community it belongs to.I definitely see the value in having the additional data since some content may be app...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Links in notification center do not point to actual content

    Link from notification centre should directly jump to reply (forum) or comment (blogs, wikis) of the last person that commented/replied instead of the original forum,wiki or blog post.
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Docs Viewer to support - Pivot tables

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    If trackback is deleted, trackback link in source should also dissapear

    write a comment under a blog post and create a trackback to another blog go into the other blog and delete the complete blog post go back to the comment you made on the first blog post and click on the still existing "trackback" link an error "pag...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Files section cursor

    In the "Files" section, when moving the cursor over "All Community Files" instead of turning into a pointer as it does with "Community Folders", it becomes a text cursor (bracket). Same for "Trash". While not impossible to use, users who are not f...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

    There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Allow duplicate wiki page names

    Currently it´s not possible to create a wiki page with an existing name. This issue was reported by several departments including mine.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Possibility to get notified if a user starts downloading a lot of data

    Customer suggests to consider the possibility to get a notification as an admin or at least to see it in a log file or whatever if some internal users are downloading big data from communities? What I'm thinking about is something similar to the d...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Make files actionable by using activities and relations

    When working with files, it would be VERY helpful if you could do a simple thing: Connect files to activities right in the file preview right panel. Therefor I recommend another tab called relations where you can do this: add relations between fi...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    I wish I could use an email address as a way for an @mention when external member of ORG

    I wish I could use an email address as a way for an @mention when an external member of an ORG (this is a work around since external users cannot be @mentioned at current - and also are not notified of changes to a page - unless they are the autho...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement
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