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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    Connections Theme in Account settings page under user profile instead of customer's customized UI

    Customer is using customizer for their customizations. Per the documentation, it appears /manage is not referenced in the list of paths/context roots for possible components to be customized. Thus it may not be possible to implement customizations...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    ER: Seeking a future version of IBM Connections Files will offer the user an option to include a password with an uploaded encrypted file

    Offer the end user an option to include a password with an uploaded encrypted file. As an Administrator, I need the ability to turn File Encryption ON by default.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to control directory service cache refresh and instant update when employee role is changed

    Customer would like to see the directory service cache refresh immediately upon changing the employee roll via rest call to update the EMPLOYEErole to EMPLOYEE.EXTNEDED through Ð/profiles/admin/atom/profileRoles.doÓ or wsadmin command. https://www...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Provide API to register Embedded Experience Org Extensions

    Currently, the only organization extension that can be managed (create, update, delete) via REST API is Community Apps (widgets). We will need to have the same type of API for all organization extension types, namely *Activity Stream's Embedded Ex...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Tool for administrators to quickly and easily make Connections profiles changes for users

    Security policy denies users access to change their personal information in Connections Cloud Profiles. To update their information, they have been using the Integration Server solution which they find quite hard to handle. Even minor changes like...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    File explorer widget should show a message for non invited memebers

    After adding more channels in Highlights at the Files Explorer widget, but I am not a member of the community, for example, it would be nice if the info is displayed to the end-user instead of just remaining blank. 1) Create community with members...
    almost 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Clarification

    Introduce the ability to restrict the use of certain search keywords for searching Connections

    Introduce an option/configurable method for administrators to specify a list of restricted keyword strings that users are not permitted to use to search Connections content. Similar to the blacklisting of certain search keywords in the environment.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Adjust folder sorting in the Files app

    It is currently not possible to sort the folders in the Files app as desired. It would be great if each user could individually adjust the sorting of the folders in the Webview. For example by folder size or by name.
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    When clicking on a document in the activity stream unable to open in a new tab

    The communities when opened in a new tab open properly. The activity stream document links when opened in a new tab does not open and shows about:block page. This only works on the Files component.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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