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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    Expand the capability for the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community feature

    Currently the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community are limited in the scope of the community data/content that is actually copied to the new community. Per https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/communities/c_com_copy.html ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Allow pronunciation file in Connections user profile to be played in browser

    After uploading a pronunciation file to the Pronunciation tab in the Connections profile save and go to the profile page. Click on the speaker icon next to the user name to get the pronunciation file. When clicking on it it downloads immediately w...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 4 Future Consideration

    Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

    There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    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

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    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

    Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

    Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    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
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