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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    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Request a function to see folder size

    We request to add a function that users have the ability to determine size consumption of a folder on Files app and in Communities, There is "About this Folder" when a user opens a Folder and users expects folder size is listed there.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Show file is locked icon when in "Show All" inside Community

    In the Overview page in your Community, you can see behind the file a locked-icon. This icon dissapears when you press show all. In the All Files overview, you cannot see if the file is locked or not, you have to open it first.
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Files - Ability to set the Maximum File Size for a Single Upload by Using a File Policy

    Currently it is only possible to set maximum file size for a single upload globally by modifiying the "files-config.xml" file, as described in the Files Configuration Properties documentation article. Please add the possibility to set the maximum ...
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Unique visits counter

    Views counter is incremented every time i click refresh.Could be better if we had an additional counter to have the number of unique views.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Hashtags in Comments

    In responding to a blog entry, I frequently feel the need to use hashtags, for everyone else to have an easier search when communicating. The problem is, the hashtags in comments are not recognised as hashtags, and could not be searched and found ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    File Preview shall be able to display XMind mind maps

    When looking at Files, several file formats are supported, like .gif, .pptx, .docx, .pdf etc - but there is no support for displaying mind maps from e.g. XMind. Please include a preview function for .xmind files as well. We often use Xmind mindmap...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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