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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Ideas

    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

    @mention from an Activity Entry notification mail

    Please correct the @mention in activities updates' mail notification. 1. Create an Activity. (Standalone or Community one, it does not matter)2. Add another user as a Member. 3. Create a new Entry. 4. In the Description field, add an @mention fo...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH)

    Compatibility of Component Pack with OpenShift Data Foundation (CEPH) - To use CEPH in place of NFS. - To use default security privileges by OpenShift. - To use UID assigned by OpenShift.
    about 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Do not translate highlights

    The new app highlight is translated into German with "Schwerpunkte". The automatic translation of the Knowlegde Center translates it into "Besondere Funktionen" Do you have to translate the term? The "Tags" have not been translated. It's good that...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Convert community file to personal file

    Currently it is possible to convert a personal file to a community file, but not yet the other way around
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve logging options for communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. The task only logs w...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to see all folders in the Connections UI folders view display (left side panel)

    When using the IBM Connections Web UI folders view display on the left side, (see screenshot) only limited with only 100 folders shown, there is no function to extend this view. The customer would like to be able to show/see all folders.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Increase the options for Notifications within Communities

    Directly from the customer: We'd like to recommend that we add more options for sending and receiving notifications. From the content creator perspective we'd like to have an option to send a notification when we create new content: post a blog, c...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

    When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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