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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    Desktop Plug-in: Sharing files or folders with external users

    If an internal user creates a folder that is available to external parties, no files could be added to that folder via Desktop Plug-in. User receives a SharingIntentRestriction error. Same issue occurs if an internal user tries to share a private ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports Also, make it possible to import custom Cognos reports into Elasticsearch. This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSear...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    If we install the non-Docker Elasticsearch environment, is it possible to switch later to the Docker-based ES?

    This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSearch for IBM Connections (on prem) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10735509 IBM Dev provided the following answer sometime ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name, no additional metadata such as the community it belongs to.I definitely see the value in having the additional data since some content may be app...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Guest users want to Delete his own account

    With "Asset Invite" it is possible to in invite guest users to his environment. Some users wan't to delete his account after working with this company. Is it possible to implement a delete function for guest users ?
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Easy way to find free time

    Tools like Doodle are well used. I think that a Doodle like application for Communities can be very helpful. Its possible to build this as a survey, but its not for a normal user. I suggest an easy application / widget for Communities. Importent ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Lotus Notes Plugin - Add an email to an activity - Entry cannot be edited at the Web Interface

    If an email will be added to an Activity via the Notes Plugin, this entry cannot be edited at the Web interface, but can only be converted to a "To do item"
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    dbWizard didn't create XCC and ESSAPPS

    Customers don't notice it until Connections is installed. After that customers creates DB by manual.(creadDb and appGrants) Please create these DBs automatically by dbWizrd.
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Files section cursor

    In the "Files" section, when moving the cursor over "All Community Files" instead of turning into a pointer as it does with "Community Folders", it becomes a text cursor (bracket). Same for "Trash". While not impossible to use, users who are not f...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

    There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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