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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    Improve message when change security of a community from restricted to public

    When you change the access of a (sub) community from restricted to e.g. public, you get this: "Warning: Updating the community access has the following consequences: Files that are not shared with everyone will be removed when changing from a rest...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hierarchical view of Communities

    In the 'My Communities' view, I'd like to be able to have a hierachical view of my communities in addition to the new tables view.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hope a setting to inform user if the download zip file exceeds 2G

    In Connections Files, select some files and download, then it will zip and download. If the zip file exceeds 2G (by default), then at last the download will fail and server reports "out of memory" issue, then server crash. Customer hope: there i...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Connections 6.0 files upload restriction based on user's IP address?

    We have IBM Connections 6.0 with latest CR3 on windows OS. We have not published to internet users yet. As of now we used Connections for only internal users for files and profiles features in Connections. We are having requirement that we need to...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Support for Watermarks on Connections

    Customer wants to have Watermark support on multiple areas of Connections (blogs, wikis, ...) on pages and when printing.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    Connections portal - Monitor the menus and notify when the links become inaccessible

    Would like to get notification even before user experiences issues with any of the connections link. Already all the servers which host the connections service are set to monitor the service, but wanted to know if there is a way to identify when t...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    API method for reparenting a community child wiki page

    This is a request for an IBM Connections Cloud API method for associating a community child wiki page with a different parent wiki page within a community. Currently, reparenting a child wiki is possible via the IBM Connections UI however there is...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improvements on backend SQL queries

    Requesting improvements on backend SQL queries. Observations indicate that: A number of the SQL queries are doing hard parsing Most of them have common text Due to the use of literals (instead of bind variables), we see multiple SQL IDs and diffe...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    extend FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles functionality

    The FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles currently does not have the ability to gracefully handle situations where references to a file/files exist within the Files database but do not exist on the filesystem. The command's current behavior is it ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Optimización de la Visualización de las imágenes

    Actualmente el Visor de documentos no permite visualizar las imágenes. Tenía una presentación en Power Point la cual subí a una comunidad y en dicha presentación había una lámina con una estructura organizativa, la cual no logra visualizarse. Apar...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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