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 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

    Engagement Center OWA Widget

    Create a widget that would allow users to see their most recent emails received in Outlook. We display a link to outlook in our Engagement Center menu. Ability to see recent emails while on the landing page of engagement center would be very well ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Client default for Notifications Preferences

    For most of our users the system default for notifications preferences is to "noisy". We like to have an options for the administrator to set our company defaults to be used when creating new (internal and external) users
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Add ICEC during user registration

    Customer would like to have the option to add ICEC during user registration. Now he doesn't see this option, and he has to create the user and then edit add ICEC after registration
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Currently only users with Administrator role can view metrics. Create different role that will allow users to just access metrics

    Give people rights to view Metrics of Connections Cloud without requiring that they are in the Administrator group.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Support for viewing and editing of files with encryption methods other than RC4

    Steps to reproduce issue: Using MS Office Word 2013 create a document and then use the option "File" --> "Protect Document" --> "Encrypt with Password" After the file is encrypted with password upload to IBM Connections Cloud "My Files" Afte...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks.

    Bookmarks - It should be possible for "Global Administrator" and/or "Global Moderator" to delete Public Bookmarks of other users. As of now, to delete an unwanted Bookmark, you have to run some WSAdmin Commands: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connecti...
    about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Display "shared with" information in files overviews

    Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review
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