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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    Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

    Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Add possibility edit status updates

    Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    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

    Stop to follow your own contents changed by yourself

    In many cases I get notified that I changed my own content. This is not helpful. Please surpress these kind of notifications.
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Future Consideration

    Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

    In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
    about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Include the IBM developed System Applications from Portal legacy in every port to HCL DX containerized.

    There are about a dozen IBM created system applications included in WebSphere Application Server (ND) that could be inadvertently dropped if and when WAS is replaced by a non-royalty JVM like Liberty. Our company relies on one or two of these apps...
    3 months ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    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

    Adding option to "Accept or Decline" a request to join a moderated community in Homepage Top Updates

    If a user requests to join a moderated community, the owner of the community can only accept or decline the request in Latest Updates. This option is also helpful if it is added to Homepage Top Update/Activity Stream.
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    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

    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration
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