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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    Flies Plugin - Highlight External Content (Communities, People, Files)

    Please improve the Files Plugin to clearly highlight external content, such as external communities, external files, external users. The current user experience is not consistent with the webbrowser and there is a risk that a file explorer user sh...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Define a permission or a read role over the directory that contains community files

    Customer need to know if it is feasible to restrict permissions on files that are stored in a community. They have many communities created in IBM Connections, but they only see two types of profiles (owners and members).Members sometimes delete w...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    request a custom search interface for the desktop plugin

    Please implement a search interface in the desktop plugin to get better search results. At this time the search failed with two different kinds of word separators ("_" and space) in a file name. Fixing this in the plugin would require implementing...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Survey Sumission to trigger notification or/and maiil

    If a users submits a filled in survey in a community it shall trigger a notification to the community owner/survey author and appear in the community activity stream.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Add Community Manager (person field or Role) Primary point of contact - owner responsible for maintenance and community content

    In our organization we have several thousand connections communities. As part of our monthly maintenance tasks we contact community owners assigned to communities who have no activity for 90 days and ask them to take action to revitalize or remove...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Track Read events by Connections Desktop Plugin in Metrics

    Regarding documentation at https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/IBM_Connections_4.0_Metrics_Frequently_Asked_Questions ... Read events originate from Connections Desktop Plugin are currently NOT tracked by Metrics (limitation confirm...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Track Read events by Connections Mobile App in Metrics

    Regarding documentation at https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/IBM_Connections_4.0_Metrics_Frequently_Asked_Questions ... Read events originate from Connections Mobile App are currently NOT tracked by Metrics (limitation confirmed b...
    over 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Disable "remember me" page

    Customer access IBM Connections website via a Citrix solution. Because of this approach they are automatically logged into Connections. Unfortunately upon connecting they are always shown the remember me page. As Citrix environment does not save c...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Community quick add content and title to Apps

    Ability to quickly add content/members with out leaving community overview page Example: Quick add members Quick add bookmarks .... Files .... Events Dynamically change app title without new pop up window. More "add content" & "edit" icons a...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Get a notification for Plug-in Updates

    I would like to follow or subscribe to https://xspy.mybluemix.net/ng to get a notification, if there is a newer version available or the document is updated.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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