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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    Option to Export to Calendar all repeating events

    When "Export to Calendar (.ics)" option is used within a repeating event, it should include all the repeating events so that they can be imported to the user's calendar at one time. Customer would like there to be the option to import all repeatin...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Alter default community events view so that the calendar view appears by default for members of a single specific community.

    Instead of the default view being the events list, make the Calendar view to appear when switching to the events widget. It should be a community setting to select whether the list view or calendar view is the default.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

    Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

    A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Connections 6.0 support for TDI/SDI 7.2

    TDI/SDI 7.2 should be added to Connections 6.0 future releases as TDI 7.1.1 has gone out of support.
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Share community file with other communities

    Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Take Original Meta Data When Uploading Files Via Browser View

    When uploading a file via IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows the original meta data (creation data, original author) are take with it. When uploading a file via web interface, Connections takes the date of uploading the file in...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Members with Reader access in communities should not be able to share files from personal files or from other users into the community,

    When a user is defined as a Member, with reader access for the Files App, he is not allowed to upload files. So far, so good...but if this user upload the file into his personal Files, then he is able to share with the community. Beyond that, this...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add Like and Comment functionality to embedded experience.

    Today third party widgets can be added as embedded experience in the Activity Stream of IBM Connections. Today users can interact with the widget but can not like or comment within Connections about the shown data. Idea: Create a possibility to en...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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