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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    File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID

    File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID Ex. When we are sharing the file to somebody it would look like below. https://example.com/files/app/s/80XNQL7DrAS0N93MKLmYhnZp40bp or https://example.com/files/app/file/e5eb4e02-4dc9-4c6d-945b-d...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    integration Box.com with HCL Connections/community

    AS User of IBM Connections Cloud, we Werenskiold able to integrate Box.com into communities. IBM had made a complete add-in, just to put in our Connections server on-prem.
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Cascading Search in Communities

    As of today, if you search in a community, only the main community's content is being searched. If the community has one or more sub-communities, search doesn't look into their content. My expectation is that search always cascades to sub-communit...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Automated file compression

    Especially for media files - all uploads should automatically be optimized to minimize memory impact.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Add Typeahead in related community widget

    At the moment its only possible to paste the link to a community and to provide a title. It would be more convenient if I could just start typeing the community title.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Linux client support to mount IBM Connections cloud storage

    It should be possible to mount the cloud files as a mount point on Linux desktops, allowing to seamlessly open and save cloud files from any Linux desktop.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Customize the colors of the website

    The app does not adapt to the colors of the website Connections. If the customer does not have blue as a color but green, the app will still be blue. I'd like it better if the app adapts to the design of the website.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Already Exists

    Define a permission or a read role over the directory that contains community files

    Customer need to know if it is feasible to restrict permissions on files that are stored in a community. They have many communities created in IBM Connections, but they only see two types of profiles (owners and members).Members sometimes delete w...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    File too large error - while opening attachment email in IBM Verse

    It is one of IBM Docs limitation, please find below link:- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/docs/text/overview/important_limits_in_docs.html IBM verse use IBM Docs for previewing XL sheet. It supports 30,000 rows and 1024 colu...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Tag Filtering - Files

    Is it possible to get an additional tag filtering like "My Files" in Community Files ?
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration
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