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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    Fix wrong behavior of hide sidebar/close buttons in files on IE

    We noticed a issue with version 11.0.126. In the top right corner, there is a button with an right arrow to close the sidebar on the right. Next to the button is a close button. When clicking on the button with arrow, the file got closed instead o...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    Page template overrides completes widget configuration on inherit pages

    We are using page templates in ICEC to define a common grid and layout, but also a default set of widgets located on the page (with specific widget IDs re-used in CSS styling). New pages inherit from the template. Page editors are not able to ch...
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    In Community Activities remove the option to make other users readers when the community is public anyway

    When a file is shared with a folder this is shown on the Sharing tab of Connections in the browser below the other sharing details. If you however look at the sharing details by right mouse clicking on a file in the desktop connector and selecting...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Customer's requirement is to specific a folder, then list both files and subfolders in this folder, and the subfolders can be open in Widget

    Customer are using nested folders within a folder that is being displayed by the files widget. The nested folders are listed as ".foldername". Refer to attachment of "Files_Widget.png" When click on those nested folders(sub-folders) an XML file is...
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hope a setting to inform user if the download zip file exceeds 2G

    In Connections Files, select some files and download, then it will zip and download. If the zip file exceeds 2G (by default), then at last the download will fail and server reports "out of memory" issue, then server crash. Customer hope: there i...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Connections 6.0 files upload restriction based on user's IP address?

    We have IBM Connections 6.0 with latest CR3 on windows OS. We have not published to internet users yet. As of now we used Connections for only internal users for files and profiles features in Connections. We are having requirement that we need to...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    extend FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles functionality

    The FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles currently does not have the ability to gracefully handle situations where references to a file/files exist within the Files database but do not exist on the filesystem. The command's current behavior is it ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    A completed virus scan doesn't reload the page after file upload.

    After a new file versions is uploaded, a message displays that the file is being scanned and preview is not available. Once the virus scan has completed, the page doesn't auto refresh so the end user thinks there is a problem. The enhancement woul...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Web document open methods

    There are 3 different methods to open an object - 1.) click on the icon - file is opened read-only, 2.) click on the link - file is opened in read-write mode, 3.) click on download button - file is downloaded with no Connections menu items in Word...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Deleting system posts on profile's wall

    I would like to have the opportunity to actually "maintain" my profile's wall: At this point I can only delete posts made by other users or myself. Posts made by the system itself cannot be deleted and tend to flood my wall. Therefore I would like...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration
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