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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    Change default value of overwriting a newer version via desktop-plugin

    In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the user that the server file has changed since the us...
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

    Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Full type-ahead functionality for search Community that contains the accented characters

    When searching for a Community via the catalog search, inputting any special character returns zero results. Currently a known product limitation but highly requested by customers as many languages incorporating special characters. Was provide a...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Ability to see all folders in the Connections UI folders view display (left side panel)

    When using the IBM Connections Web UI folders view display on the left side, (see screenshot) only limited with only 100 folders shown, there is no function to extend this view. The customer would like to be able to show/see all folders.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Like option consistency in mobile

    Add like options in mobile everywhere where it is possible in the browser! For example you can't like wiki pages or comments in mobile app (Android)
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Recognize Apostrophes When URLs Are Pasted in an Activity Stream Entry

    When you copy and paste a URL that has an apostrophe into a status update, for example https://www.example.com/jdoe's_example_url everything after the apostrophe is plain text instead of part of the link. This breaks the URL. In the future, we wou...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Prevent syncing / download of 'restricted community' content

    We need to tighten the security on some specific communities that contain classified documents.Members should not be able to download or sync documents / files to any local storage outside the Connections app storage. Existing options (AllowExport...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    No mobile push notifications on api mention and answer although configured in notification settings, just browser push.

    PROBLEM:User does not get push notification on mention event over API.No mobile push notifications on api mention and answer although configured in notification settings, just browser push. Ref: https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpAPIVie...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Allow members in a subcommunity that are not members of the parent.

    Create a subcommunity and have members of that subcommunity that are not members of the parent.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to set the "dark mode" for the Mobil app

    User with "visual impairment" can use , work better with the mobile when the app could offer an an dark mode like iOS. Requested is a switch with two options like dark or normal mode,view to the mobil app.
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration
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