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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    Support for viewing and editing of files with encryption methods other than RC4

    Steps to reproduce issue: Using MS Office Word 2013 create a document and then use the option "File" --> "Protect Document" --> "Encrypt with Password" After the file is encrypted with password upload to IBM Connections Cloud "My Files" Afte...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Get rid of iFrame widgets for consistent customization support

    In the right sidebar on the homepage are multiple widgets. Most of them are well embedded so that we can customize their styling. But some are just iframes. Those iframes have their own styles and it's not documented how to customize them, so we'r...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Display "shared with" information in files overviews

    Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review

    How to collect the list of followers for a particular user

    Customer did not identify in the API documentation, - https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/xpAPIViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+5.5+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Getting_a_feed_of_the_followed_resources_ic55&cont...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Reduce notifications to once a day

    If I am updating a lot in my community members and followers were notificated about every single change.I do not want to spam my followers. So it would be better that everyone will get only one notification a day for one community independent how ...
    almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Deleting folders doesn't delete files within that folder

    If a folder is deleted inside a Community, the files that were contained in the folder are not deleted. Instead they are still available in the "All files" section of the Community. Only the association of the file with the folder is being deleted...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Enable/Allow AVIF Format

    Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to review and change memberships for all communities which I own

    At the very moment I can access the communities I am an owner of. Still I have no to sort/filter these by other owners, members As well I would like to identify these having issues with the memberships (see here) or the add and remove access for m...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

    Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
    about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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