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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    Prevent syncing / download of 'restricted community' content

    We need to tighten the security on some specific communities that contain classified documents.Members should not be able to download or sync documents / files to any local storage outside the Connections app storage. Existing options (AllowExport...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Create custom hyperlinks within the Activity Stream

    At the moment you are only able to paste a URL as hyperlink. It would be nice to paste a URL and then edit and format this hyperlink.It makes sense if you have inserted very long URLs and want to shorten them using formatting, according to the mot...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Engagement Center OWA Widget

    Create a widget that would allow users to see their most recent emails received in Outlook. We display a link to outlook in our Engagement Center menu. Ability to see recent emails while on the landing page of engagement center would be very well ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Notification of personal folder in community

    We discovered a behavior in the Connections Community.Here's the problem description: Expected behavior: A user shares a personal folder with a community The user expects all community members that are following the community to be notified Actual...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow members in a subcommunity that are not members of the parent.

    Create a subcommunity and have members of that subcommunity that are not members of the parent.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Support for viewing and editing of files with encryption methods other than RC4

    Steps to reproduce issue: Using MS Office Word 2013 create a document and then use the option "File" --> "Protect Document" --> "Encrypt with Password" After the file is encrypted with password upload to IBM Connections Cloud "My Files" Afte...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Get rid of iFrame widgets for consistent customization support

    In the right sidebar on the homepage are multiple widgets. Most of them are well embedded so that we can customize their styling. But some are just iframes. Those iframes have their own styles and it's not documented how to customize them, so we'r...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Display "shared with" information in files overviews

    Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review

    How to collect the list of followers for a particular user

    Customer did not identify in the API documentation, - https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/xpAPIViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+5.5+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Getting_a_feed_of_the_followed_resources_ic55&cont...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Reduce notifications to once a day

    If I am updating a lot in my community members and followers were notificated about every single change.I do not want to spam my followers. So it would be better that everyone will get only one notification a day for one community independent how ...
    almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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