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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    File Preview shall be able to display XMind mind maps

    When looking at Files, several file formats are supported, like .gif, .pptx, .docx, .pdf etc - but there is no support for displaying mind maps from e.g. XMind. Please include a preview function for .xmind files as well. We often use Xmind mindmap...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Summarize/Merge multiple content in status updates

    If a user uploads several images or files in one action, a separate status update is generated for each image/file. If there is a large number of images/files, the sequence stream becomes very confusing. Therefore it would be better to merge these...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to set access level to delete files and folders.

    The shared files and folders can be deleted by every user who were shared them even the access level is "Reader" and "Editor". Only "Owner" should be able to delete the files and folders.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Surveys - display external Guest user with displayname/loginname and not email address

    It should be possible to see the Displayname of the external user against the loginname or emailadresse in a survey answer.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Add API support to show me which Files I liked

    This is currently not present and we need it to display "files/photos I liked"
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Connections Events Calendar - Define Categories and color

    Have different Colors for different Events. Define "categories" of Events, e.g. Visitor, Business Trip, Holiday.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Easy way to invite for meetings

    I have Activities and several groups. And there should be an easy way, to setup meetings, so that they appear in Lotus or Outlook. Something like "Checkbox" the needed persons, and directly invite from Connections Activity or Communities to a meet...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Lack of Connections Theme

    Many end users said the design of Connections theme look ugly, boring looks. They compare the Wordpress open social software so many theme designed I guessed.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 6 Already Exists

    Add API support to allow presence indicator support via 3rd party chat integrations

    Add API support to allow presence indicator support via 3rd party chat integrations. AppFusions has done these integrations and can assist on the implementation details on the IBM CNX side - but anyways, this needs to be done on IBM CNX cloud/on-p...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration
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