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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    Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

    Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

    Embed a video file in a blog

    Looking for a way to embed a video from the community files directly into a blog post. The aim is to enable the video to play directly within the blog, allowing viewers to watch it instantly and switch to full-screen mode if desired, rather than j...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 2 Needs Review

    Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

    It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    External community members should also get notifications

    Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

    Allow Shared Files to be Included in Community Folder

    When files are shared by someone with a community, those files cannot be put into a community folder. It would be ideal if all files in a community (whether owned by the community or shared with the community) could appear in the same folder.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Abliity to change the external share status of a file after upload

    Currently, you can only decide if a file should be allowed to be shared externally during upload. If you change your mind, you should be able to change this in the UI as an owner of a file
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Fix assigning community template admin roles

    Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Upload PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Connections

    Hello, it would be a nice feature to upload a PDF file directly to Connections. When I have a open document in Adobe Reader --> save --> at Connections. Tags etc as following steps.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

    Create one single repository for all files & attachments so behavior is uniform across all elements of IBM Connections

    Currently personal files, community files, (if available) CCM files, blog attachments, forum attachments, wiki attachments and activity attachments are all stored in individual and separate file repositories with their own limits, behaviors and op...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement
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