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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    Turn off document download

    It would be helpful to have an option to turn off the document download option to prevent users from maintaining copies of documents outside of the intended Files location.
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    See IDEACNCTNS-I-601 - not fixed yet!

    EXIF information is ignored by Connections if a picture is taken on mobile and uploaded. Not fixed in current 6.0 CR on server side even if feedback indicates that there was some change in the mobile app to address this.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Customize default email settings for community members

    Currently community email settings has below options: 1) Members can email the entire community 2) Members can email owners only 3) Members cannot email others We would like to keep option #2 from above and remove the option #1 in regards to who m...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Introduce option for Restricted Access to all Communities for certain users (Profiles)

    Even that it sounds strange in social software, in some cases (e.g. short term employed person working in a project) line of business requests that users even can access public or moderated communities is case that they are a named member.Please i...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Cloud: an FTP or WEBDAV access for cloud users to download files.

    Customer want a FTP or WEBDAV way to download files from Connections Cloud. Currently, customer can download community files from UI, but all these files will lost their folder structure. Customer need to a way to download files with folder struct...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Show number of new/changed items (updates) on the app tabs of a community

    It would be nice if the interface of a community would show the number of changed/new entries in each app (Forum/blog/wiki/etc) behind that apps name in the left side app menu or in the tabs above (with horizontal layout). That way the users would...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Change Embedded WebView behavior

    For some deployments it would be helpful if a link that i tap on opens in in either Safari or another App. For some links still embedded is preferred. Idea: Create a domain whitelist for handing over to Operating System Example Scenario: Today...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Introduce autofollow functionality for new community members in the IBM Connections cloud environment.

    Currently, within IBM Connections cloud new community members are not set to automatically follow the community. The new member must explicitly select to follow the community. Therefore, this request is to change the behavior so that new community...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hope to sync folder in Connection Files for Connections Mobile APP

    In Connections Mobile APP, if opening operation menu for a file, then we can see "Sync" menu. If opening operation menu for a folder, then there isn't "Sync" menu. Customer hope to sync folder.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Change file format during upload on Connections. Upload pptx as PDF

    Hello, it would be great if the file format could be changed during the uploading process on Connections. Means, when I upload a document, I want to change the docx into PDF, so the document ist saved as PFD in Connections.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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