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

    Mass for Community Membership and (extra) Following/Unfollowing actions

    In case a person wants to leave or join several communities at once, this becomes a cumbersome process with many individual clicks. Especially in organizations which use many small (sub) communities this is a big pain.Please provide an option as p...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Right click on any place of the Community card, it should display open Community in new tab

    On Communities List. if right click on a Community name, it shows "Open Link in New Tab". However, when right click on some other place of the Community card, it shows "Open Image in New Tab". Need "Open Link in New Tab" while right click on Commu...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Accesslist of Communitys - when gets members access to the community, when do they leave the community

    Actually there's no way to senn when someone gets access to the community., or when they leave the community. There's is only the ability to see when he was invited to the community. This Feature should just be useable for Communityowners.
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    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

    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

    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

    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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