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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    Spreadsheet to automatically filter all data including empty spaces in between data

    When you automatically filter data in a column, it would only filter all the data until the first blank space of the column. This behavior is different from openoffice where it can filter all data even if there are blank spaces in between. (WPS Sp...
    9 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Ability for external users to follow communities

    External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

    Increase the font size

    Most sites have such small font size I can barely read announcements in blogs, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance dialog for invited guest

    Guests outside of company can be invited. Once they accept the invitation a dialog appears with some information to fill - like password. We want to extend this dialog by a phone number (or other LDAP fields) - which is mandatory for some companie...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Support for http/2 in IBM Connections

    Since Ibm application server 8.5+ supports http/2 and Http/2 brings many new improvements over http it would be a great feature if Connections would add support for http/2 in Connections. https://developer.ibm.com/articles/wa-http2-under-the-hood/
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Multi file delete should be possible for files using the web frontend

    Currently files have to be deleted one by one from the files widget of a community. Offering delete functionality for multi select files analogous to multi select download using the web frontend of Connections would be helpful to organize files an...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Make community surveys visible to non-members in public communities.

    A public community is accesible by every member. Even files, libraries, wikis etc. of this community are accesible, except Community-Surveys. This should be accessible without being a member of a public community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Owners of a Community should not automatically be owners of a Sub-Community

    When someone is the owner of a parent community, he cannot be removed from a subcommunity.We think that should be possible.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

    The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification
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