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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    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    ICEC - Enhance Configuration of News Widget

    News widget allows to specify the numbers of items shown. In case of multiple channels, the lastet published # items from all channels are shown. In case of multiple channels that vary in the frequency how often news are published this has a downs...
    about 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration

    Deleting folders created by other users should not be possible for regular Community members (owners only)

    As deleted community folders can’t be restored using the files trash/restore functionality, it should not be possible for regular community members to delete folders created by other users. Deleting folders should be handled analogous to deleting ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Copy an existing community incl. all members

    It would be helpful if a user would have the following options / choice when copying an existing community: copy with all members / copy without existing members. Currently all members need to be added manually once a community has been duplicated.
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Highlights template selections - need preview of design before applying

    When you access Highlights --> Customize --> Page Settings --> Show Advanced --> Inherit From, you're given a list of community UUIDs to select from. There is no preview of what you're selecting, so you have no way of evaluating design...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Highlights template selections - need better identification of template

    After you've marked certain community Highlights displays as templates, you can inherit the design in other communities. The problem is that the drop down list where you make a selection only lists the UUIDs of the communities, and it doesn't show...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

    Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Restrict to upload Files to Community applications (Wiki, Forum, Blog, Ideation Blog, Activities)

    We can restrict to upload Community Files with the following setting.[Community Actions] - [Edit Community] - [Files] tabMembers have the role of: [Check] Reader: (Share, view files and folders in this community) However we can not restrict to upl...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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