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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    "Link to files" hangs with large amount of files in library

    Since IBM Connections 5.5, the implementation of the "Link to files" dialogue around files pagination has changed compared to previous release. When you open "Link to files" for linking files into Activities, Wikis, Blogs etc, the dialogue uses se...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Folder ""updated"" timestamp needs to be updated when a new file version is uploaded/modified.

    A folder that contains a file(s) does not have it's "updated" timestamp modified when a user updates a file's version, uploads a new files version, or modifies a current file version in any way.The timestamp is only modified when a new file is add...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    File upload - Skip existing

    Enhancement request for the IBM Connections Desktop Plug-in and Outlook Plug-in: In certain customer situations we recognized that users are uploading a whole folder to IBM Connections Files. If a file is already uploaded the user gets a notificat...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Block/Restrict personal files upload - My Files

    Customer would like to have the ability to block or restrict users (by role) to upload personal files on Files application (My Files), and allow them to use the Files into the Communities
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow method for bulk transfer of file ownership in Connections UI by someone other than the owner

    Requesting the feature to enable another user other than the owner of files to perform a bulk transfer of file ownership through the Connections UI. For example, a possible feature change would be to introduce within the Connections UI a method to...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Share Connections Content in Teams

    It should be possible to better share content from CNX in Teams Below I share the comment we received from HCL on this idea. Now if you do have an app (and we do of course as long as the user has deployed it), then the app gets a signal to display...
    about 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Add support for dark mode in Teams integration

    The whole Connections integration in Teams is only usable when working with Teams set to default colors. If using the dark mode, many Connections dialogues, (like choosing a Community, choosing a file, etc.) are barely readable. Of course, it woul...
    almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    TinyMCE "Code Sample .." in Forums

    We noticed that the funcion "Code Sample .." in TinyMCE is missing for Forums when creating Forum Topics. We would appriciate to add this function also there.
    almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Add change summary

    It would be useful to have the possibility to add a change summary to a new version of a file after the version has been published in case the user forgot to add it while uploading. Should be only possible for the user who uploaded the new version.
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    DELETE Button in Files App for multiple files

    Hello, In the Files application it is not possible to delete multiple files via Web UI. You have to click on the files individually and say "Delete". This is so tiring and not really nice with almost 200 files. Please add a "Delete" button next to...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Assessment
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