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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    Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

    Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

    Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    CEC News widget - add filter of blog posts with a specific tag

    The common News widgets (list, slider) do not allow to filter Blog posts by a specific tag. They only allow to display a specific blog post or all current blog posts of a community. Please enhance.
    almost 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Assessment

    Adding touchpoint customization

    Making customization possible so that for example:- new people can "invite for my network" instead of only following.- add information to "background"- add links to "blog link"
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Video preview plays videos without sound (muted)

    uploaded video by default has the volume muted. Customer would like the ability to set the default volume of uploaded video content.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    Disable link recognition in Activitystream and Mail notifications

    When you create a post (blog, forum, wiki) and add some project number or JIRA ticket number in the beginning, linked to your Helpdesk, or other system, this link gets removed in the mail notification and activity stream. When your JIRA number now...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Widget for Watson Workspace

    Would love to connect directly to a Watson Space from a Community. Having a link is not enough. Being capable to interact directly from a Community would be great. Thanks
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 4 No Plans to Implement

    HTML5 Directory Upload for Connections in Browser

    Current state:Currently, using the browser interface users can only upload individual files to Connections. Users are able to select multiple files for upload, but not a whole directory or multiple subdirectories for upload. Enable uploading of Di...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration
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