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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    Allow community files to be shared across multiple community folders

    There is a documented limitation that indicates "you can put a community owned file in only one community folder." This is inconsistent with personal files which allow files to be shared with multiple folders. Allowing a community file to be share...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Remember Last Filter setting in Community Overview

    Because the "My communities" overview shows every community that you visited once. This overview show many communities. There is a filter option to filter on "I am owner". But you need to set that filter every time you go to communities. Our re...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Support for Chrome extension

    There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open to...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

    Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Make File Folders searchable

    Users cannot search for folder names in the current releases. Make these searchable.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files'

    We want to have the option to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files' if they wanted to as they are not currently using the functionality and it appears to be causing confusion for their users.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

    Upload size of files

    Currently only a maximum of 2GB Supported. Please set the value to 5GB support. I know that you can change the value of the config.xml. However, this sometimes leads to errors because more than 2GB are not supported.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

    When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration
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