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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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Sort Files by "Shared with"

It would be really helpful to have the possibility to show all files shared with a specific person. For example if someone transfers to another department and you want to share all files to the successor. Best place would be to add this feature wi...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Uninstall option to remove all personal preferences in IBM Connections Plugin for Microsoft Desktop

Once installed and set preferences like NA DC, then installation does not remove them, resulting being unable to change DC after reinstallation. It is quite natural for users to be selectable whether user personal information / preferences shall b...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

RSS feed: Filter feed of followed resources on content type

We request to get a RSS feed of new blog posts of all blogs I am following (community as well as standalone blogs), but only blog posts, not comments or likes on posts. The documented REST APIs provided by Connections do not have this offering. 1)...
over 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Docs Co-Editing show in depth changes made to files

As a couple of people were working on a file they did not know they were in co-editing.One left and the other made changes to Values the other Person changed. Him leaving the files the changes of the first person wont be changed and can't be track...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Getting the numbers and values for users from the "My Drive"

I request an Admin option to know how many files the user have in the sync folder as we suspects to have some users with a large amount of files in the desktop connections sync folder. As admin I want to have a report and overview to see the size ...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
over 3 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

Schedule MS Teams Meeting from Connections Events

Planning Events in Connections is great, but it would be even more useful, if there was an ability to schedule a MS Teams Meeting directly from there. Just like it works in Outlook. Add a button to the 'create event' view and add that meeting invi...
over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 No Plans to Implement

Make it possible to serach in all versions of files

Minutes from meetings are stored in a new version as the meetings persist. In my case, I now have 66 versions of the minutes for a project period. I am trying to find a case that was dealt with in an earlier meeting, but I don't think the search e...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

Let every app run on a rasperry pi, as promised

2017 Jason Roy Gary announced "The future is pink": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-Connections-6-Die-Zukunft-ist-Pink-3672015.html Where he promised that every component should run on a raspberry pi. Since java is avaliable for ARM, t...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement