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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    Change Community access after creation - Allow people from outside of my organization to become members of this community

    Would save time and effort if you can change access to an existing Community to allow external users access.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Docs Viewer to support - Pivot tables

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Mobile App - Enable click on existing comments and likes

    The mobile app shows that an entry (e.g. a file) has comments or likes. Please enable these areas to get the details without the need for additional clicks. In order to see comments currently, you first have to open the item - a click on comments ...
    over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    The possibility to move several files to the Recycle Bin at once (HCL Connections App)

    Currently it is not possible in the HCL Connections Apps to move several files to the Recycle Bin. You have to click on every single file and press "Delete". This is very inefficient.
    over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Files section cursor

    In the "Files" section, when moving the cursor over "All Community Files" instead of turning into a pointer as it does with "Community Folders", it becomes a text cursor (bracket). Same for "Trash". While not impossible to use, users who are not f...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    Multiple Calendars for Communities

    Hello, I believe it´s not already possible to have multiple calendars within a Connections community. If there is a way, could you please provide me an answer to how? and if not, I believe it would be a good addition.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

    There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Show Admin Banner also in the HCL Connections Mobile App

    With V8 comes a very cool Feature. The Admin Banner which is configurable via REST API or Customizer. The Banner is show of all HCL Connections Pages in the Desktop Webview. Unfortunately, the admin banner is not visible in the mobile app. This sh...
    about 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Provide a more extensive authorization concept for Communities

    In our company we merged SharePoint and Confluence into Connections. Now our users are complaining because both tools had a much more advanced authorization management which can not be reproduced with Communities. For example with Confluence it wa...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search API should have have same results as Connections search

    e.g. Search via Search API should consider that hidden community blogs (of deleted communities) cannot be found --> same behavior as in Connections search.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration
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