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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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Continue uploading files from large dataset even if one file fails to transfer

When uploading a large number of files (for example, 2000 image files), if one file fails to upload, the upload process stops until the client manually continues the process. Request is for better functionality to 1) Retry the failed upload automa...
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

(administrator) Option to set the opening of internet-links to "open in a new tab or window" as default

Users have problems with navigation in the system after the opened a (external) link to another page from within IBM Connections. Now it is defaulted to opening in de same tab/window. We prefer opening in a new tab/windows so that the user can eas...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Hide (external-)member list for external users as option per community and/or per user

In some of our communities we have to give external partners access to the data but there are three reasons why we do not wish them to see the member-list and data of the other external members of the community: 1) some external member do not wish...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
about 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

Allocating personal files in an existing community folder structure

Users should be able to share personal files with a community and assign them to an existing folder structure, so that the owner (a single person) can spread one file in multiple communities, and update the file only once.
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Remove File versions from version x like you can with Wiki's

When you want to remove older versions of a file, you have to remove them one by one. It would be very helpful if we can remove multiple versions or have an option "Remove from version .. " !
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Progress bar in the files downloading dialog box

Going through each of our views within explorer, and there is does not currently have progress bar support for downloading files to the desktop from any of the namespace views (i.e. My Folders, Community folders, subfolders, etc). Since this is th...
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Pinned Folders Should Equal Communities in Windows Explorer

If the ability to pin communities is developed, then those communities that are pinned should appear in the Windows Explorer list of "Communities". If someone pins a new community it should immediately appear in the Windows Explorer list and if a ...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

How can a community owner know if a user is already registered / active

The use case here is that The UI does not clearly present any indicator that a user is already registered and therefore "active", rather than the account does not exist or is pending. when a user is already registered and the Org member invites th...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Connections event calendar should have alarm notification setting

Please add an option to each new Connections event entry that states: "Date to send reminder to community owners/members with this event information". On the date set by the creator, an email will be sent to all community members/owners with the s...
over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement