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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    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability for users to configure whether Homepage links open in current or new tabs

    On Homepage, if you click a link, it opens in a new tab instead of opening it on current tab. Need option to allow user to choose whether open a link on Homepage, it opens in a new tab or on current tab.
    about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Summarize/Merge multiple content in status updates

    If a user uploads several images or files in one action, a separate status update is generated for each image/file. If there is a large number of images/files, the sequence stream becomes very confusing. Therefore it would be better to merge these...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page?

    Is there a way for the Community Overview tab to always be visible even when Highlights is configured as your starting page? This will facilitate in removing community applications without the extra step of reconfiguring the community start page.
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Implement Full Community Copy or Template including CCM Library Structure and Predefined Content

    Our Projects require a Template for their communities that utilizes the same Buttons, CCM Library folders, Basic Wiki structure, predefined Forums etc... We would like the ability to Copy a Template Community (similar to what can be done in activ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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