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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    Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

    Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

    Continue uploading files from large dataset even if one file fails to transfer

    When uploading a large number of files (for example, 2000 image files), if one file fails to upload, the upload process stops until the client manually continues the process. Request is for better functionality to 1) Retry the failed upload automa...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

    In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

    Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Allocating personal files in an existing community folder structure

    Users should be able to share personal files with a community and assign them to an existing folder structure, so that the owner (a single person) can spread one file in multiple communities, and update the file only once.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Remove File versions from version x like you can with Wiki's

    When you want to remove older versions of a file, you have to remove them one by one. It would be very helpful if we can remove multiple versions or have an option "Remove from version .. " !
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

    So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Progress bar in the files downloading dialog box

    Going through each of our views within explorer, and there is does not currently have progress bar support for downloading files to the desktop from any of the namespace views (i.e. My Folders, Community folders, subfolders, etc). Since this is th...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Include additional details within Community Metrics

    When accessing a Connections Cloud Community's metrics participation -> number of visits "show chart" view the "Community Overall Total" isn't always the total of the community components displayed. Requesting that all community components metr...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Schedule MS Teams Meeting from Connections Events

    Planning Events in Connections is great, but it would be even more useful, if there was an ability to schedule a MS Teams Meeting directly from there. Just like it works in Outlook. Add a button to the 'create event' view and add that meeting invi...
    about 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 No Plans to Implement
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