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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    Useful email notifications

    You have recently changed email notifications so they they are in rich text format (which looks nice) but has removed the direct links to threads and authors (removed functionality). Please put those back, and stop asking me to hunt around Connect...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 5 Future Consideration

    Abliity to change the external share status of a file after upload

    Currently, you can only decide if a file should be allowed to be shared externally during upload. If you change your mind, you should be able to change this in the UI as an owner of a file
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Fix assigning community template admin roles

    Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Upload PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Connections

    Hello, it would be a nice feature to upload a PDF file directly to Connections. When I have a open document in Adobe Reader --> save --> at Connections. Tags etc as following steps.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

    Create one single repository for all files & attachments so behavior is uniform across all elements of IBM Connections

    Currently personal files, community files, (if available) CCM files, blog attachments, forum attachments, wiki attachments and activity attachments are all stored in individual and separate file repositories with their own limits, behaviors and op...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

    It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Allow users to remove themselves from a file shared with them

    The list of "files shared with me" contains files other people shared with you and can be quite extensive. Sometimes these include files people are no longer interested in or feel they shouldn't have access to (GDPR). At the moment, only the origi...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Expiration Date for Wikis and Files

    We miss the function of setting an expiration date. That's very useful. Especially if a document or a wiki is out of date you will be notified by e-mail that you have to create a more recent version. Great NEED with us!
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 5 Assessment

    Allow community files to be shared across multiple community folders

    There is a documented limitation that indicates "you can put a community owned file in only one community folder." This is inconsistent with personal files which allow files to be shared with multiple folders. Allowing a community file to be share...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

    Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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