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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    Migration: Add capability to migrate Community from one Connections Instance to another

    Migration: Add capability to migrate Community from one Connections Instance to another Add ability to migrate a Community from one instance of Connections to another Select a Community or Communities Export all the related content (including Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 No Plans to Implement

    Save the last setting on sorting files

    User can sort the files to be listed by Name, Updated, Views, Comments and Likes but it does not keep the settings. This setting should be kept so the user don´t need to change it everytime.
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Possibility to like an event

    I would like to have the possibilty to like a community event to share it with my network. At the moment you have to create an event for people to click "attending". But for people to share and recommend the event you have to create an additional ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Tag Cloud in Community files

    In community files there is no tag cloud. It is very important for the acceptance that there is a consistent behaviour. Therefore add a tag cloud everywhere its currently missing (for example files in community)
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow easier switching between multiple accounts

    Many of us need to access multiple Connections sites (own company, customer sites, multiple cloud tenants). Allow quick switching between multiple sites without the need to use so many clicks and loosing context.
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Preview outlook email (saved as a file in files)

    If you create an email from outlook in connections, it is not possible to preview this as you can with word, excel etc. This makes Connections a cumbersome system to use
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Show track changes when previewing a document

    If multiple people work on a document, with track changes / comments, you have to edit the document in Docs or download it and open it with a local app to see the highlighted items and comments. Especially when creating a new version, being able t...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Build option to remove and reorder apps in a community in Connections 7

    In Connections 7 the new community homepage is the Highlights page. This page does not allow you to remove apps from the community (which was possible with the overview page) . It only allows you to remove the widget from the highlights page but t...
    about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically. Allow a config setting to disable the pop-up after editing documents in office and check them in automatically instead of asking to check in the document
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Need a way to work in a Community Files app “offline” and sync to the cloud automatically when online again

    Environment: Smart Cloud Connections Refer to below URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSL3JX/files/c_files_sync_refresh.html You can Use My Drive to work with files offline, files you add and edit in My Drive are automatically ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration
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