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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    Support for folder structures in IBM Notes/Connections "Files" sidebar plug-in

    In IBM Notes, there is a Connections integration. In the Notes client, there is a sidebar plug-in for Connections "Files". The files that are being synced is just a flat list of files. We would like to get support for folder structures in the "Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    MS O365 Teams updates should be visible in my activity stream within Connections

    As a user working with IBM Connections (Cloud or on-premise) and in a Microsoft O365 environment it would help staying focused within the Enterprise Social Network (Connections) if updates from MS Teams can be seen within the Activity Stream (Orie...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Add members to main and subcommunity simultaneously

    Please make it possible to add members to the main and subcommunity in one go. Also, if someone asks for Access to a subcommunity you as owner should have the Chance to add him to the subcommunity. By this he is automatically in the main community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to configure default view in Connections Desktop Plug-in

    When going to My files in the Connectons desktop plugin, we default to the Tiles view. You can change to the list, details, content etc. views. However, this is not presevered ... so you have to change the view everytime. In Windows Explorer, you ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Add a Community homepage widget to show the community status updates on the homepage too

    Community status updates are a handy and important option to inform users of what's going on in a community. However, they are not shown on the community homepage (unless you change the default homepage to the status updates view) and therefore ha...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Orient Me: Make it possible to add a public community you neither follow nor are a member of to the "Important To Me" bar.

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:In Orient Me, it's not possible to add communities to Important To Me (ITM) bar that you are not a member of. STEPS TO REPRODUCE:1. Go into orient me and click on the + button in the Important to me bar.2. Search for a commun...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Already Exists

    Provide Docs templates to start with

    please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Transfer Community content immediately to another admin when Business Owner is deleted

    The current process is: When a business owner is soft deleted and the ''assign To'' field is filled in, the Communities are put into a trash state. After 30 days the user is hard deleted. Then on the 90th day the content is transferred to the pers...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Sametime Meetings and Docs Integration

    When you are editing a document on docs sometime you need to talk to other people. HCL Docs should have an action to start a meeting using Sametime Meetings, this away it's possible to connect the people to develop a document.
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Future Consideration

    Community Member Management - Allow Bulk Removal

    Please allow the removal of multiple member at once. Allow community owner to select N members and select remove members. It is pretty annoying if you have to remove >10 users at once from a community and you have to remove member by member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration
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