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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    Allow sharing a Blog from an activity stream post

    In Social Cloud environment customer want to share different entries from Connections (mainly blog entries) on their activity stream, and when they do this (they copy the url of the Blog and post it on their activity stream) they get a Log In mess...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

    supply more detailed fix lists for Desktop and Notes plugin

    There are new plugins available for Notes and MS Desktop but unfortunately the Release Notes do not specify which fixes are contained. Can you please provide more details to allow a better decision if an upgrade is required. Desktop Plugin https:/...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Make Properties for "Export to PDF" configurable

    Do you make it configurable, on PDF Export, to only tick the page that was open when the PDF button was clicked? Usually we only want to print the current page. Do you make it possible to have a different default for the automatically set propert...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Thumbnail generation variables

    As an admin, I want the ability to check, configure, and reset the last rendition of the media file that the thumbnail generation task has processed. In the Connections code, the lastThumbnailEventFile variable stores the desired data. However, cu...
    about 4 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    As an admin I want to see a list of all Communities in my Org (even restricted ones)

    Create API to enable creation of a list of all Communities, even private ones (without having to purchase a 3rd party tool).
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 5 Already Exists

    Multi file delete should be possible for files using the web frontend

    Currently files have to be deleted one by one from the files widget of a community. Offering delete functionality for multi select files analogous to multi select download using the web frontend of Connections would be helpful to organize files an...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Make community surveys visible to non-members in public communities.

    A public community is accesible by every member. Even files, libraries, wikis etc. of this community are accesible, except Community-Surveys. This should be accessible without being a member of a public community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Owners of a Community should not automatically be owners of a Sub-Community

    When someone is the owner of a parent community, he cannot be removed from a subcommunity.We think that should be possible.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Enhance the Notes Plugin

    Add to the Notes Plugin for IBM Connections the possibilities to view and edit all the other apps, like forums, wikis, blogs and so on. Let us push mails not only to activities but also to a forum, a wiki or a blog.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration
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