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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    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

    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

    Allow multiple file and picture upload in status updates

    Our users request to be able to uplaod more that one picture to the status update in order to display images from events etc.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Connections search shall not be exact

    ConNext search shall support partial match — not requires to use wildcards. Moreover current wildcard search does not support special characters. (bug) .
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under 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

    Like history limited to 25. Requesting the ability to override this limitation

    If more than 25 people like content in Connections (e.g. Status Updates, comments, Blog posts, files, wiki pages, forum topics and replies, etc.) only 25 people are shown in the list. Please remove the limit
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Add file to different folders within community

    We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    allow to switch an existing community to be external

    Allow to switch an existing community to be external. request the possibility to change an existing community (with content) to be available for external user.Please add functionality to change the community access level to external in web UI. At ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    new "Configure Connection Retention in the Trash Folder", like e-mail retention

    Currently In Connections Cloud, if a user deletes all the content to which they have access (an entire community, community or personal files, wikis, etc.), and then removes the trash, perhaps by mistake, perhaps because he was fired, or by any ot...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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