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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    Share by link also for anonymous users

    A new feature share-by-link introduced in 6.0 CR4 still requires users (who receive the link) to log in in Connections to be able to access the shared file. However, users expect that the links should work for everybody, i.e. for all anonymous use...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files.
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Same functions for the uploaded files

    If a file is uploaded to the files app, you can use the files viewer, edit in Docs, can have multiple versions and so on. These functions are missing for files directly attached to Wikis, Activities, Forums and Blogs. Please give us here the same ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Multiple file upload on Android IBM connections client

    I take photos with my cell phone while on the road or conferences / exhibitions. I'd like being able to upload big batches of files to my IBM Connections Cloud files space with ease, not one-by-one
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    IBM Docs Colour Picker

    It would be very useful to implement a "Colour Picker" for a bigger range of colours.
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

    CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    ADMX Templates for Desktop Plugins

    To configure group policies in a Windows Domain, typically ADMX templates are used. However, for the desktop plugins, only old ADM Templates are available, which don't work well with current Windows versions. The old ADM Files were used with Group...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

    In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Desktop Plugins: automatically clean up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing.

    CHANGE REQUEST: Build something into a new version of the installer which automatically cleans up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing. REASON FOR CHANGE:Customer has had problems getti...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

    With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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