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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    Customizable Community Navigation

    We need the ability to hide, rearrange and name navigation elements in communities like in MS Teams for example! When we activate highlights, it would be reasonable to replace the overview. We don't need always status updates and recent updates et...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Invite whole community to an event

    Our users are asking for a feature that allows to invite all community members (with one click) to an event. They wish for this function to be placed within the user interface of the event app. As of now, it is only possible to invite all communit...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Display order of comments in wikis / Criteria for sorting the comments

    Our users would like to be able to select the criteria for sorting the comments in wikis (e.g. recent to old, old to recent, alphabetical order of authors etc.). Also they would appreciate a reply button so that answers on a comment can be grouped...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

    CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Restricted Community of only Viewer right

    The customer wants an option that can set all member as viewer in a Community all at once. For example: 1) Create a restricted community. Creating a community to encourage collaboration https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/user/communities/t...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Ability for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

    In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    community owner/member list report

    That would be great, if all users could run a report, which lists, in which communities a certain person is a member or owner. (We have to validate our accesses on a quarterly basis, so this kind of report would be much appreciated!)
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Missleading error message - when a library limit defined by policy is being hit - either by upload or update of an existing file - the error message should be meaningful

    During uploading a new version of file to Connections from the File preview if user is going to break his personal library limit, he is getting an error: "Cannot save a new file version. Please try again later." It is missleading. Users are ge...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Convert community file to personal file

    Currently it is possible to convert a personal file to a community file, but not yet the other way around
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Full type-ahead functionality for search Community that contains the accented characters

    When searching for a Community via the catalog search, inputting any special character returns zero results. Currently a known product limitation but highly requested by customers as many languages incorporating special characters. Was provide a...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration
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