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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    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Support for Elasticsearch 6.x - Connections 6

    Customer driven, uses Elastic 6 today.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Future Consideration

    Implement Full Community Copy or Template including CCM Library Structure and Predefined Content

    Our Projects require a Template for their communities that utilizes the same Buttons, CCM Library folders, Basic Wiki structure, predefined Forums etc... We would like the ability to Copy a Template Community (similar to what can be done in activ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Utilize the Users Timezone When creating / viewing Events

    Currently events does not respect the users timezone so events are displayed in the Connections Server time and not converted to the appropriate time for the end user even when exporting to the Notes calendar ... this makes the tool unusable for l...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    How to control the file sharing by Administrator

    We want to control the file sharing. Is there such a feature? Currently, each user needs to confirm "Allow others to share these files" every files. (Default: Not check the box) Also, each user needs to confirm "Sharing Options-Allow others to sha...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to administer trash throughout Connections - Community; Wiki; etc.

    Create an administrative tool built to manage trash across Connections. Specifically they would like to be able to view:- What's in the trash- How old it is- Delete / restore
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page?

    Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page? This will facilitate in removing community applications without the extra step of reconfiguring the community start page.
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review
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