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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    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to copy/paste @mentions

    Right now all @mention resources need to be added separately (every time) for @mention to work. Copy/Paste of several @mention at once, is not recognized at something valid. Copy /paste of series of @mention should work at least in major browsers.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Request a function to see folder size

    We request to add a function that users have the ability to determine size consumption of a folder on Files app and in Communities, There is "About this Folder" when a user opens a Folder and users expects folder size is listed there.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Show file is locked icon when in "Show All" inside Community

    In the Overview page in your Community, you can see behind the file a locked-icon. This icon dissapears when you press show all. In the All Files overview, you cannot see if the file is locked or not, you have to open it first.
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Files - Ability to set the Maximum File Size for a Single Upload by Using a File Policy

    Currently it is only possible to set maximum file size for a single upload globally by modifiying the "files-config.xml" file, as described in the Files Configuration Properties documentation article. Please add the possibility to set the maximum ...
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Unique visits counter

    Views counter is incremented every time i click refresh.Could be better if we had an additional counter to have the number of unique views.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Hashtags in Comments

    In responding to a blog entry, I frequently feel the need to use hashtags, for everyone else to have an easier search when communicating. The problem is, the hashtags in comments are not recognised as hashtags, and could not be searched and found ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    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
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