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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    Editor(s) - Convert pasted Notes-Links into real Notes-Links (Notes://)

    In case you past a valid Notes Link (document, view, application, anchor) into the editor in IBM Connections the result looks like this (example is a view link, al private date is replaced by "x"): xxxx xxxxxxxxxx <NDL> <REPLICA xxxxxxxx...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Please release a legal Connections Container so that customer can quickly deploy this product

    Since PINK is supposed to be container based and container does not have any OS, there should not be anything legal preventing bundling a ready for deployment Connection Container, right ? This should in theory help to immensely cut down deploymen...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Transfer files from a user prior to delete the account

    As a Customer Admin , I want to transfer all files (Only Files) prior to delete an account, so that we can quickly transfer the files to a new Owner
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Allow community owners to decide how they want the files in their community sorted

    Currently files in community files/folders are sorted by last edit date. Sometimes owners want it to be sorted alphabetically. Please allow community owners a setting to do this. As an example, in CCM libraries this is also possible .
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Named Entity Recognition (NER) functionality in HCL Connections

    Named entity recognition (NER) helps you easily identify the key elements in a text (or topic), like names of people, places, brands, monetary values, and more. Extracting the main entities in a topic helps sort unstructured data and detect import...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Upload documents from mobile to community

    When uploading documents or pictures from mobile to Cloud, yu can't upload to a community, only to my files. it is nearly impossible to get the document into the right community, without a lot of "hacking".
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 6 Under Consideration

    Video Playback on Apple Devices

    The integrated video player, which is used to preview videos uploaded to Files, does not work in Safari on macOS nor in Mobile Safari on iOS or iPadOS. Please upgrade the player to support those devices.
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 Already Exists

    Broadcast via Connections App

    It would be fantastic if you had the opportunity to create a broadcast via the push notification to inform all users. A kind of important alert. That would have to work with a command. Each Connections user should then receive this push notificati...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Mobile app to honor profile customization via templates

    We prefer to change the visibility of the fields on the profiles application on IBM Connections Mobile App. Mobile app should honor profile customization via templates. Need customization which fields should be displayed or hidden.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Share by link also for anonymous users

    A new feature share-by-link introduced in 6.0 CR4 still requires users (who receive the link) to log in in Connections to be able to access the shared file. However, users expect that the links should work for everybody, i.e. for all anonymous use...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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