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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    Error message shown every few minutes in IBM Connections-Desktop-Plug-ins for Windows

    In remote sites (e.g. VPN) we have this issue: We were able to configure the plug-in and it works fine, but every few minutes a popup is shown with the error "IBM Connections Server for lappnet sync is currently unavailable". - The notification ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Folder and file sharing authorization

    To be more organized, it will better that, for example, we can share a parent folder with all users and every subfolder with only one group. So users can see and access the parent folder but they can not access all subfolder.
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Prompt people when they "Stop Sharing" a file to also stop sharing the file with any communites or folders that file was shared with who are not accessible to the owner

    When I share a file and allow others to share the file on, they can share that file with any number of personal folders and communities that I don't have access to. If I remove the ability for others to share my file later on. Those shares are no...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Already Exists

    Provide installation media of software

    Some customers request HCL to provide installation media (ex.DVD) of softwareas they were provided by IBM.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    User Management - Integration between ADP and Connections LLIS

    Customer would like to setup automation between Connections and theirHR Application (ADP) . They would like to send a file to cover (Add, Change, and Remove) of users on the daily basis.Currently the file has to be created in this format https://w...
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Public file linked from a private community will result in error if user is not a member of the community

    When a file that was shared with Everyone is put into a community and someone opens that file through the community, the URL he/she sees is relevant to the community. Meaning that when he or she then copies that link and forwards it to someone els...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 3 Needs Clarification

    Surveys - change hint text size

    a customer requests to change hint text size in surveys as it is not readable. Unfortunately this is not possible due to the product architecture/limitation. Leap support passed this to Connections support with a recommendation to create ER. I su...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Create the option for apps to only be addable to a community by Connections admins.

    Currently you can set up Connections so that communities can only be created by admins. It would be extremely useful if Libraries could only be added to a community by admins. The integration of CCM is cumbersome and until CCM can be replaced by a...
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Folder URL will not be changed after login.

    Steps to reproduce: 1. UserA opens Files application, 2. User A create a new folder, for example: testfolder, and choose Share With "People, group or communites". Choose userB as Editor and click "Create".3. UserA send the URL of this folder to us...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Allow using filters if cell is protected

    Docs disables using filters if it is placed in a protected cell (spread sheet). Excel alllows filtering in such case. Therefore users can't filter online and filters can't changed (inactivated) online if a user upload a sheet with set filters. Ple...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement
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