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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    Improvement in Comments

    Inside all tools there is the possibility to add comments (Wiki, Blog, Files, etc). The problem, in each tool there are different features. I believe IBM needs to create an unique framework/tool for comments, and connect all tools inside this fram...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Develop Integration with other Collaboration Platforms (O365, G-suite)

    Connections is social enterprise software, and it does that well. Connections is enterprise collaboration software, and it does that well. Connections is not so good at personal/small team collaboration, where O365 and G-suite excel....and have th...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 3 Under Consideration

    Delete multiple files in folders in my files.

    hability to delete multiple files in FOLDERS. Today, only in root dir I can delete multiple files at once. Inside Folders I cannot delete multiple files at once. (This is not a feature request, is a BUG)
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

    Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Allow Shared Files to be Included in Community Folder

    When files are shared by someone with a community, those files cannot be put into a community folder. It would be ideal if all files in a community (whether owned by the community or shared with the community) could appear in the same folder.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration

    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

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    "Find a member" functionality within mobile app

    If you access the members section of a community via a web browser, you are able to use "Find a Member" to search for a member without having to navigate through the entire member list. You do not have the same functionality in the mobile app. Ins...
    about 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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