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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    Explorer Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Add Column to show "local draft" in views

    You already provide a right mouse click option to publish local drafts from the Windows Explorer. Unfortunately there is no property which shows the user which files have a local draft within this view (only accessible vie the tray icon at the ver...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities

    Customer would like to have the ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities.. Currently the resource is available through the UI
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Ability for users to configure whether Homepage links open in current or new tabs

    On Homepage, if you click a link, it opens in a new tab instead of opening it on current tab. Need option to allow user to choose whether open a link on Homepage, it opens in a new tab or on current tab.
    about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Summarize/Merge multiple content in status updates

    If a user uploads several images or files in one action, a separate status update is generated for each image/file. If there is a large number of images/files, the sequence stream becomes very confusing. Therefore it would be better to merge these...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Support for Elasticsearch 6.x - Connections 6

    Customer driven, uses Elastic 6 today.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Future Consideration
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