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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    Take Original Meta Data When Uploading Files Via Browser View

    When uploading a file via IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows the original meta data (creation data, original author) are take with it. When uploading a file via web interface, Connections takes the date of uploading the file in...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Members with Reader access in communities should not be able to share files from personal files or from other users into the community,

    When a user is defined as a Member, with reader access for the Files App, he is not allowed to upload files. So far, so good...but if this user upload the file into his personal Files, then he is able to share with the community. Beyond that, this...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    E-mail notifications only from individual communities

    Currently I get from each community I follow email notifications. For the future, it would be better if I could again choose from which communities I get e-mail notifications. It can also be because I only want to follow a community, but do not wa...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Already Exists

    Outlook plug-in Support for syncing edited files back to connections

    When one opens a file from connections in outlook and then edit it, the change won't be sync back to connections.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Explorer Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Add Column to show "local draft" in views

    You already provide a right mouse click option to publish local drafts from the Windows Explorer. Unfortunately there is no property which shows the user which files have a local draft within this view (only accessible vie the tray icon at the ver...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities

    Customer would like to have the ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities.. Currently the resource is available through the UI
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Ability for users to configure whether Homepage links open in current or new tabs

    On Homepage, if you click a link, it opens in a new tab instead of opening it on current tab. Need option to allow user to choose whether open a link on Homepage, it opens in a new tab or on current tab.
    about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review
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