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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    Connections search shall not be exact

    ConNext search shall support partial match — not requires to use wildcards. Moreover current wildcard search does not support special characters. (bug) .
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to change owner of a single file

    Currently there is no possibility also for admins to change the owner of a file. We have a number of users who had to be removed from our system. The owner of their files cannot be changed. Please let us know how to change the owner of a file.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Add file to different folders within community

    We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Safe migration path from CCM to Files

    CCM feature has an unclear future, would be good to have a standard migration Path from CCM to Files. Filenet integration is really complex and with an high volume of files is not quite easy to manage.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

    So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Notifications - allow me as a page editor to make a change and suppress notifies

    I wish there was a way to change a page, and NOT send notifications some times (override watches) Sometimes when you are making alot of edits, you don't want to send a notification to the author of the page for every T-crossing. Watch Overrides wo...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

    I wish I could link to an existing Blog or Wiki page from a Blog

    I wish I could link to an existing Blog or Wiki page from a Blog- via an easy selection option or macro. If TinyMCE editor or the like was used, such a macro could be created/supported easier.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

    At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Extend/deactivate Auto-Completition-Period of Activities in Connections Cloud

    Activities within Connections Cloud are automatically marked as complete by the Activities Administrator after the default Auto-Completion-Period of 90 days. Whilst it is possible to modify this value on prem, there is no current possibility to ed...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance ideation blogs with status field

    An idea in the ideation blog should have a customizable field for the status: in review, validating, rejected, will be implemented and so on. It should also be possible to assign an idea for review to a person with some kind of dead line. Open, re...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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