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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    Cascading Search in Communities

    As of today, if you search in a community, only the main community's content is being searched. If the community has one or more sub-communities, search doesn't look into their content. My expectation is that search always cascades to sub-communit...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Automated file compression

    Especially for media files - all uploads should automatically be optimized to minimize memory impact.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Add Typeahead in related community widget

    At the moment its only possible to paste the link to a community and to provide a title. It would be more convenient if I could just start typeing the community title.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Linux client support to mount IBM Connections cloud storage

    It should be possible to mount the cloud files as a mount point on Linux desktops, allowing to seamlessly open and save cloud files from any Linux desktop.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Define a permission or a read role over the directory that contains community files

    Customer need to know if it is feasible to restrict permissions on files that are stored in a community. They have many communities created in IBM Connections, but they only see two types of profiles (owners and members).Members sometimes delete w...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Tag Filtering - Files

    Is it possible to get an additional tag filtering like "My Files" in Community Files ?
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Update "Action Required" if action is done

    For IBM Connections 5.5 and IBM Connections 6.0: There are some applications which add items to the "Action Required" activity stream like: Activity > Assign TODO item to an user CCM Library > Document approval / review Community > Invit...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Video in a powerpoint cannot be read with the preview

    A video is inserted in a powerpoint. At the preview, we don't even know there is a video : the slide is empty. Seen in Connections on prem.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Keep surveys responses ID as sequential

    Keep surveys responses ID as sequential Currently the ID of the survey responses are not sequential, it can change if the internal block of IDs is restarted.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add Community Manager (person field or Role) Primary point of contact - owner responsible for maintenance and community content

    In our organization we have several thousand connections communities. As part of our monthly maintenance tasks we contact community owners assigned to communities who have no activity for 90 days and ask them to take action to revitalize or remove...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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