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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    Externals / Visitors should be able to be owners of restricted (external) communities

    In our company we do have for example externals which provide application support within Connections. That's why it would be great if they could edit forum entries, use @-mentions for community members, ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Change order of related communities

    ​It would be nice if we could change the order of the linked/related communities (on community start page), since only 5 are visible in the preview.
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    dbWizard.sh can not see any DB2 databases while upgrading to connections 6.5

    While upgrading Connections V6.0 CR6 to V6.5 the dbWizard can not see any installed database under the Update menu in the DB Wizard. The reason you are not seeing the DBs is because you are already at version 6.5 and require no updates. However, t...
    almost 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    show in the section "My Communities" only the communities I'm a member of

    At the moment you find under "my communities" also communities you are not a member of. It also lists communities you've randomly clicked on in the "explore" section.
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists

    Public Folders tab on the left navigation bar for the Files app

    Currently we have an option to see all the files shared with "Everyone in the Organisation" at "Public Files". Even though If a folder is shared it is just showing all the files at public files section as an individual files not as a folder struct...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Public Folder at Files applications

    Currently we have an option to see all the files shared with "Everyone in the Organisation" at "Public Files" Even though If a folder is shared it is just showing all the files at public files section as an individual files not in a folder structu...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase/Decrease individual community membership limit

    Currently we can only increase or decrease the membership limit of communities globally which reflects to all communities. But we cannot do that for a specific community.
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Generic way of managing documents among all Connections apps

    There are about 7 different ways of adding and managing documents in Connections. Which is very confusing for users. Would it be possible to have a generic document management in this platform? One way of adding documents and sharing them with com...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Send notification mails on changes from shared file

    Consider the following constellation: User A creates a file and share it with User B, where User B has configured to get an email notification on each file event in his preferences. Now user B get an email notification about the shared file from U...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Forced Password Change in Touchpoint

    After a user loggs in CnX the first time he runs through Touchpoint and there he should be forced to change his pwd immediately
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement
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