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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    Enable to see communities list via Windows Desktop Plug-in

    Communities list (community catalog) can be seen via browser, but these cannot be seen via Windows Desktop Plug-in. Please enable to see communities list via Windows Desktop Plug-in. IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows https://g...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Files - Allow to create Links to Files and Folders (e.g. at Desktop)

    It would be comfortable to have the opportunity to create a direct Folder or File-Link (e.g. at the Desktop) instead of clicking through Windows Explorer "communities - Community XY - Folders - ..." That function would increase acceptance in the B...
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 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

    Administrator can turn off to share Files to externals.

    Many customers request the feature to prohibit user to share files to external for their security policy. Org admin should have the option to turn off to share files to externals.
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Open files directly in specific applications from within the browser

    If users are receiving file links, the files get previewed within the browser. If they then want to edit the file directly in the specific application and not in the online editor the file needs to be downloaded, saved in an intermediate place and...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists
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