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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    Currently only users with Administrator role can view metrics. Create different role that will allow users to just access metrics

    Give people rights to view Metrics of Connections Cloud without requiring that they are in the Administrator group.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 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

    Invite - customize the Self Service success page

    We want to customize the Self Service success page such that the "START COLLABORATING" button links to a different destination address. Please add this option unfortunately at this time this customization is not possible by default in Invite.
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Clarification

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks.

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks of other users. As of now, to delete an unwanted Bookmark, you have to run some WSAdmin Commands: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connecti...
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Enable/Allow AVIF Format

    Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Blogs, Wikis and Files view counter increase on page reload

    The view counters in blogs, wikis, and files can be increased by any user by just reloading the page/entry/file multiple times. There is no check on cookie or session ID. In blogs there is a config option that the original author is not counted in...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Deleting folders doesn't delete files within that folder

    If a folder is deleted inside a Community, the files that were contained in the folder are not deleted. Instead they are still available in the "All files" section of the Community. Only the association of the file with the folder is being deleted...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

    Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
    about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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