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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    Same functions for the uploaded files

    If a file is uploaded to the files app, you can use the files viewer, edit in Docs, can have multiple versions and so on. These functions are missing for files directly attached to Wikis, Activities, Forums and Blogs. Please give us here the same ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Change Notification Preferences for all users (existing and new) via command or in the GUI

    This would be usefull because there would be no need to change the records in the Connections Databases directly for existing users. By changing the Preference values in " notification-config.xml ", you are changing the default values for the new ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Multiple file upload on Android IBM connections client

    I take photos with my cell phone while on the road or conferences / exhibitions. I'd like being able to upload big batches of files to my IBM Connections Cloud files space with ease, not one-by-one
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    IBM Connections Further Develop

    Please further develop the IBM Connections Windows Server versions. We do not want connections running on linux server systems only.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

    CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Ability for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

    In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Convert community file to personal file

    Currently it is possible to convert a personal file to a community file, but not yet the other way around
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to see all folders in the Connections UI folders view display (left side panel)

    When using the IBM Connections Web UI folders view display on the left side, (see screenshot) only limited with only 100 folders shown, there is no function to extend this view. The customer would like to be able to show/see all folders.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to increase attachment file upload size limitation on a user by user basis rather than across the board

    We wish to increase the file upload size to selected users, not for all users. This file size limitation should be configurable for users given the PROF GUID or PROF UUID.
    about 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Turn on Groups in Cloud

    When working with Communities its really lacking support for groups. Its easier to maintain access rights to Communities in stead of adding/removing one person in multiple communities. That way we could also have Administrator groups
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration
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