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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    Ability to set access level to delete files and folders.

    The shared files and folders can be deleted by every user who were shared them even the access level is "Reader" and "Editor". Only "Owner" should be able to delete the files and folders.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future 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

    Add API support to show me which Files I liked

    This is currently not present and we need it to display "files/photos I liked"
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    How to control the file sharing by Administrator

    We want to control the file sharing. Is there such a feature? Currently, each user needs to confirm "Allow others to share these files" every files. (Default: Not check the box) Also, each user needs to confirm "Sharing Options-Allow others to sha...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to administer trash throughout Connections - Community; Wiki; etc.

    Create an administrative tool built to manage trash across Connections. Specifically they would like to be able to view:- What's in the trash- How old it is- Delete / restore
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Transfer files from a user prior to delete the account

    As a Customer Admin , I want to transfer all files (Only Files) prior to delete an account, so that we can quickly transfer the files to a new Owner
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Allow community owners to decide how they want the files in their community sorted

    Currently files in community files/folders are sorted by last edit date. Sometimes owners want it to be sorted alphabetically. Please allow community owners a setting to do this. As an example, in CCM libraries this is also possible .
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Video Playback on Apple Devices

    The integrated video player, which is used to preview videos uploaded to Files, does not work in Safari on macOS nor in Mobile Safari on iOS or iPadOS. Please upgrade the player to support those devices.
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 Already Exists

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files

    Ability to upload a bulk folders and files while preserving the folder structure into Connections Files.
    about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Share by link also for anonymous users

    A new feature share-by-link introduced in 6.0 CR4 still requires users (who receive the link) to log in in Connections to be able to access the shared file. However, users expect that the links should work for everybody, i.e. for all anonymous use...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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