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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    Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

    There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Show Admin Banner also in the HCL Connections Mobile App

    With V8 comes a very cool Feature. The Admin Banner which is configurable via REST API or Customizer. The Banner is show of all HCL Connections Pages in the Desktop Webview. Unfortunately, the admin banner is not visible in the mobile app. This sh...
    about 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Possibility to get notified if a user starts downloading a lot of data

    Customer suggests to consider the possibility to get a notification as an admin or at least to see it in a log file or whatever if some internal users are downloading big data from communities? What I'm thinking about is something similar to the d...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Make files actionable by using activities and relations

    When working with files, it would be VERY helpful if you could do a simple thing: Connect files to activities right in the file preview right panel. Therefor I recommend another tab called relations where you can do this: add relations between fi...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    "Link to files" hangs with large amount of files in library

    Since IBM Connections 5.5, the implementation of the "Link to files" dialogue around files pagination has changed compared to previous release. When you open "Link to files" for linking files into Activities, Wikis, Blogs etc, the dialogue uses se...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Mobile App and Filter in Link

    From a Browser: Create a community forum and then create a topic and add a tag to the topic. Create a second topic and add a tag. Go to the community overview page and in the Tag widget, click on the tag of one of the topics. You'll find that it t...
    over 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Plugin for files as Box Drive

    the plugin should be improved so that it has similar functionality as the Box Drive.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Request to add print functionality or print button for Calendar Events view in Communities

    Request to add functionality to only print the Calendar event view. Currently when printing through the browser the entire Community is printed that includes the Calendar of events but also the navigator along the left hand side. We are requesting...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Folder ""updated"" timestamp needs to be updated when a new file version is uploaded/modified.

    A folder that contains a file(s) does not have it's "updated" timestamp modified when a user updates a file's version, uploads a new files version, or modifies a current file version in any way.The timestamp is only modified when a new file is add...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    Add the tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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