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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    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

    Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 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

    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

    Add more actions for multiple files selected inside a community

    If you select multiple files inside a community, Connections only shows the action to download all files selected. The system need to show other actions like delete, add tags, share, etc for multiple files selected
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Disable status updates for multiple file uploads

    When uploading many files at once to a community, e.g. pics taken at a trade fair or so, each upload generates a separate status update. So inadvertently I spam all my followers starting page. It's annoying. Why not have a checkbox or message dial...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Delete Member with an csv file.

    Add the possibility to delete members from a Community or SubCommunity with names (Mail adresses) in a CSV-File. Like for the import function.
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Restricted Community: Access Denied Page

    When we search the restricted community in Connections and share the community link with any other user then it takes the user back to search page instead of the request membership page. We want users to always get the 'Request Membership Page' wh...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement
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