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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    A notification or mail will be sent on birthdays

    You should receive a notification or e-mail if the person has a birthday to follow.
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Deleting folders created by other users should not be possible for regular Community members (owners only)

    As deleted community folders can’t be restored using the files trash/restore functionality, it should not be possible for regular community members to delete folders created by other users. Deleting folders should be handled analogous to deleting ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Copy an existing community incl. all members

    It would be helpful if a user would have the following options / choice when copying an existing community: copy with all members / copy without existing members. Currently all members need to be added manually once a community has been duplicated.
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Highlights template selections - need preview of design before applying

    When you access Highlights --> Customize --> Page Settings --> Show Advanced --> Inherit From, you're given a list of community UUIDs to select from. There is no preview of what you're selecting, so you have no way of evaluating design...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Highlights template selections - need better identification of template

    After you've marked certain community Highlights displays as templates, you can inherit the design in other communities. The problem is that the drop down list where you make a selection only lists the UUIDs of the communities, and it doesn't show...
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    uid to show in Directory Search

    Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Restrict to upload Files to Community applications (Wiki, Forum, Blog, Ideation Blog, Activities)

    We can restrict to upload Community Files with the following setting.[Community Actions] - [Edit Community] - [Files] tabMembers have the role of: [Check] Reader: (Share, view files and folders in this community) However we can not restrict to upl...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    HCL product dev. team have to improve the quality of rendering PPT/PPTX file for satisfying customer's requirement.

    Nowadays lots of customer would like to use HCL Connections Docs for co-editing feature to leverage team productivity. But there are two so critical problem related with rendering PPT/PPTX file. 1. The rendering result of file viewer removed back...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    survey forms/dialogs - enhance mouse hover function on ? to show the field help

    The mouse hover function on ? to show the field help should be enhanced on survey forms/dialogs. It is a little bit arduously to find the correct cursor position to get the help pop-up displayed. It is browser independent. Please make this more us...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Option in AdminUI for Company Admin to view the overall IBM Connection Smartcloud Size and Overall Items size like Communities or stand-alone files for All users in his organization

    The admin needs an overview / metric for all users and all communities to follow usages and get the used storage.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration
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