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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    Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

    If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

    It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
    about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

    A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

    It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Fix menu bars when scrolling

    Dear Team, one problem in the community is, that the menu bar on top and on the left of the page are not fixed upon scrolling. So I simply loose the option to navigate once I have reached lower parts of a page. This is highly annoying since most m...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    How to know who deletes files in a Community

    Is there a way to monitor who deletes or moves a file to trash of a community?
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Support for folder structures in IBM Notes/Connections "Files" sidebar plug-in

    In IBM Notes, there is a Connections integration. In the Notes client, there is a sidebar plug-in for Connections "Files". The files that are being synced is just a flat list of files. We would like to get support for folder structures in the "Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Add members to main and subcommunity simultaneously

    Please make it possible to add members to the main and subcommunity in one go. Also, if someone asks for Access to a subcommunity you as owner should have the Chance to add him to the subcommunity. By this he is automatically in the main community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    admin dashboard

    I feel that so far Connections lack dashboard for Administrator to view the status how the Connections perform. Example, always Admin need to know what Communities so far created, public/private. Administrator no way to manage the file size quota ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Future Consideration
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