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 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

    "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

    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
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