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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    "Link to files" hangs with large amount of files in library

    Since IBM Connections 5.5, the implementation of the "Link to files" dialogue around files pagination has changed compared to previous release. When you open "Link to files" for linking files into Activities, Wikis, Blogs etc, the dialogue uses se...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Allow creation of sub Forums

    Currently, you can create many top level Forums. We would like to see the ability to create sub topics within Forums. For example, a top level Forum may be "LEAN 5S." Create Forum Topic, LEAN 5S. Then, create a sub forum, under LEAN 5S for each of...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow to view/retrieve all likes on forum, blog entries

    Until now only 25 last like profile can be displayed for one forum or blog entry. It should be possible to see the whole list, as well as getting this list in order to thanks people for the like action for example.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Folder ""updated"" timestamp needs to be updated when a new file version is uploaded/modified.

    A folder that contains a file(s) does not have it's "updated" timestamp modified when a user updates a file's version, uploads a new files version, or modifies a current file version in any way.The timestamp is only modified when a new file is add...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    File upload - Skip existing

    Enhancement request for the IBM Connections Desktop Plug-in and Outlook Plug-in: In certain customer situations we recognized that users are uploading a whole folder to IBM Connections Files. If a file is already uploaded the user gets a notificat...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Default font & size for orgs in IBM Docs.

    Set default fonts while creating a doc or editing a doc. At the moment the default font for IBM Docs is showing as " Arial " size "10"
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Block/Restrict personal files upload - My Files

    Customer would like to have the ability to block or restrict users (by role) to upload personal files on Files application (My Files), and allow them to use the Files into the Communities
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow method for bulk transfer of file ownership in Connections UI by someone other than the owner

    Requesting the feature to enable another user other than the owner of files to perform a bulk transfer of file ownership through the Connections UI. For example, a possible feature change would be to introduce within the Connections UI a method to...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

    It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add change summary

    It would be useful to have the possibility to add a change summary to a new version of a file after the version has been published in case the user forgot to add it while uploading. Should be only possible for the user who uploaded the new version.
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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