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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    Display files without folder association in Community folder view as files in root folder

    Currently it is hardly possible to distinguish between files that are placed in a specific folder and files that are only visible in the Files view of the Community library (files that have been uploaded directly to the Files section), since all C...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase number of custom profile fields limit (IBM Connections Cloud)

    We are using custom fields on profiles (IBM Help: Customizing your organization > Updating user profiles). Currently we use 8 of them and there is a limit of 10 custom fields.Can this limit be extended? On-prem you do not have a limitation and ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    allow unlimited file growth in communities

    The 50Gig limit kills me. We receive 120Gig in regular projects as the handover from the customer - and start producing then up to Terabytes. (I do not ask to get that for free...) We would prefer to go BYOS on our own S3 storage accounts on Azur...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    access all files by a "normal" UNC path / SMB share

    we would like to access files like normal files on a harddisk or network share. 2 main reasons: - use links between files (e.g. in excel formula) - automatically upload and update (new version) files by copy or by a file generation tool
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Link to open files directly in Android app

    Customer is running IC55 + CR1 and mobile devices running Andriod 6.x or newer. What customer really wants to create a link that can be used to automatically launch a file in the in the mobile app. Accodding to the product documentation available ...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Able to search Guest user within directory.

    There is a function within Connections Cloud / SmartCloud that allows external contacts to be added so that customer can use the collaboration tools. These are Guest / House accounts. When searching our directories, we are unable to find these acc...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Expand the capability for the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community feature

    Currently the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community are limited in the scope of the community data/content that is actually copied to the new community. Per https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/communities/c_com_copy.html ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Allow pronunciation file in Connections user profile to be played in browser

    After uploading a pronunciation file to the Pronunciation tab in the Connections profile save and go to the profile page. Click on the speaker icon next to the user name to get the pronunciation file. When clicking on it it downloads immediately w...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 4 Future Consideration

    Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

    There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review
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