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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    Possibility to change owner of a single file

    Currently there is no possibility also for admins to change the owner of a file. We have a number of users who had to be removed from our system. The owner of their files cannot be changed. Please let us know how to change the owner of a file.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Like history limited to 25. Requesting the ability to override this limitation

    If more than 25 people like content in Connections (e.g. Status Updates, comments, Blog posts, files, wiki pages, forum topics and replies, etc.) only 25 people are shown in the list. Please remove the limit
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Add file to different folders within community

    We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Safe migration path from CCM to Files

    CCM feature has an unclear future, would be good to have a standard migration Path from CCM to Files. Filenet integration is really complex and with an high volume of files is not quite easy to manage.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections App: Forum -> Show newest posts first

    In the browser, you can choose within a forum if you would like to see the oldest or the newest post first. We would love to have this option available on the mobile app as well.
    almost 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

    So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

    At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    new "Configure Connection Retention in the Trash Folder", like e-mail retention

    Currently In Connections Cloud, if a user deletes all the content to which they have access (an entire community, community or personal files, wikis, etc.), and then removes the trash, perhaps by mistake, perhaps because he was fired, or by any ot...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    bsi guidlines, certification

    bsi guidlines, certification for Connections
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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