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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    integration Box.com with HCL Connections/community

    AS User of IBM Connections Cloud, we Werenskiold able to integrate Box.com into communities. IBM had made a complete add-in, just to put in our Connections server on-prem.
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types (MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Pictures etc.) to avoid downloading every file before it can be viewed/read.
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Already Exists

    Profiles - provide a button in each tab to edit information

    In profiles there are various tabs called "The Board", "Contact Information", "Background", etc. It would be beneficial to have "Edit" button for different tabs. Therefore, you don't need to look for "Edit My Profile" button which is located under...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Cascading Search in Communities

    As of today, if you search in a community, only the main community's content is being searched. If the community has one or more sub-communities, search doesn't look into their content. My expectation is that search always cascades to sub-communit...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Automated file compression

    Especially for media files - all uploads should automatically be optimized to minimize memory impact.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Add Typeahead in related community widget

    At the moment its only possible to paste the link to a community and to provide a title. It would be more convenient if I could just start typeing the community title.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Linux client support to mount IBM Connections cloud storage

    It should be possible to mount the cloud files as a mount point on Linux desktops, allowing to seamlessly open and save cloud files from any Linux desktop.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Define a permission or a read role over the directory that contains community files

    Customer need to know if it is feasible to restrict permissions on files that are stored in a community. They have many communities created in IBM Connections, but they only see two types of profiles (owners and members).Members sometimes delete w...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Tag Filtering - Files

    Is it possible to get an additional tag filtering like "My Files" in Community Files ?
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Certain types of API generated activity stream events are rendered ugly when they appear in the daily digest

    Problem ScenarioWhen API generated @mention events show up in the notification email, the format is ugly. TroubleshootingCustomer is following steps from API documentation here:https://ibm.biz/BdYCnq In the daily digest mail, the API generated eve...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration
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