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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    Display "shared with" information in files overviews

    Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review

    How to collect the list of followers for a particular user

    Customer did not identify in the API documentation, - https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/xpAPIViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+5.5+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Getting_a_feed_of_the_followed_resources_ic55&cont...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Deleting folders doesn't delete files within that folder

    If a folder is deleted inside a Community, the files that were contained in the folder are not deleted. Instead they are still available in the "All files" section of the Community. Only the association of the file with the folder is being deleted...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Blogs, Wikis and Files view counter increase on page reload

    The view counters in blogs, wikis, and files can be increased by any user by just reloading the page/entry/file multiple times. There is no check on cookie or session ID. In blogs there is a config option that the original author is not counted in...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Enable/Allow AVIF Format

    Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

    Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
    about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Administrator can turn off to share Files to externals.

    Many customers request the feature to prohibit user to share files to external for their security policy. Org admin should have the option to turn off to share files to externals.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Change the Hyperlink in the Newsletter from /homepage to /social

    In the newsletters "Daily Newsletter" and "Weekly Newsletter" the hyperlink at the bottom "Show all updates" shows to the Connections page https://<connections>/homepage. Why isn't the new much cooler site https://<connections>/social ...
    about 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 No Plans to Implement

    HCL Connections Touchpoint - "de-at", "de-de", and Other German "Localized" Language

    Touchpoint Application/Page, does not accept "localized" language codes. Every time a browser sends the language code like "de-de", "de-at", or similar, the Touchpoint Application loads in English, which is defined as default in "toucpoint.js".
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Connections Windows Explorer Integration

    I would like: The possibility to Add To Folder from "My Files" section Also Copy/Paste directly under "My Folders" to upload new version or add a file. I would also like to access Files uploaded to Blogs via the Windows Explorer.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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