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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    Folder ""updated"" timestamp needs to be updated when a new file version is uploaded/modified.

    A folder that contains a file(s) does not have it's "updated" timestamp modified when a user updates a file's version, uploads a new files version, or modifies a current file version in any way.The timestamp is only modified when a new file is add...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    Add the tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    File upload - Skip existing

    Enhancement request for the IBM Connections Desktop Plug-in and Outlook Plug-in: In certain customer situations we recognized that users are uploading a whole folder to IBM Connections Files. If a file is already uploaded the user gets a notificat...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Using IBM Docs as a previewer for community files in wiki pages iframes

    We want to publish previews on documents from the files library in some guideline-style wiki pages. Therefore we used the ibm docs preview URL as an iframe src URL in a wiki page. This works fine. Now we encounter additional feature request from o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Block/Restrict personal files upload - My Files

    Customer would like to have the ability to block or restrict users (by role) to upload personal files on Files application (My Files), and allow them to use the Files into the Communities
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow method for bulk transfer of file ownership in Connections UI by someone other than the owner

    Requesting the feature to enable another user other than the owner of files to perform a bulk transfer of file ownership through the Connections UI. For example, a possible feature change would be to introduce within the Connections UI a method to...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Share Connections Content in Teams

    It should be possible to better share content from CNX in Teams Below I share the comment we received from HCL on this idea. Now if you do have an app (and we do of course as long as the user has deployed it), then the app gets a signal to display...
    about 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Accepting button for Network contact invitations

    When a User receive a request to become a Network contact in Connections. The only possibility is, to open the profile directly or from the Notification Bell, and select "Accept invitation". It would be good to have a direct button option in the N...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    TinyMCE to consider Active Content Filtering rules by Connections

    Connections allows to customize Active Content Filter rules. By this, customers are able to adapt blacklist or whitelist to their needs. - Whitelist: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/secure/sec_acf_whitelist_intro.html - Blackl...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Add support for dark mode in Teams integration

    The whole Connections integration in Teams is only usable when working with Teams set to default colors. If using the dark mode, many Connections dialogues, (like choosing a Community, choosing a file, etc.) are barely readable. Of course, it woul...
    almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration
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