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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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Automatic Synnchronization for Supplement user data for Profiles

The Department table should be updated automatically without a manual process via CSV file, for this as per below article https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/install/r_prof_fill-tables.html?query=populate_department
almost 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Let Files Widgets Open Links In Same Tab

Files and Files Explorer widgets currently have links with target="_blank". As a result, if the user clicks on a filename, the browser opens a new tab, redirectes the user to the community holding the file and then opens the Docs Viewer. That take...
almost 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Already Exists

Ask user to confirm that he is aware that he is uploading to an externally accessible community when using the plugins to upload a file to an external community

There is no differentiation between internal/external communities in the plugins. Therefor users can easily place documents in external communities without realizing they do so. Ideally a user should be prompted (popup with OK/CANCEL) when droppin...
almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Get calendar app back to Community

It is likely that a lot of users are missing calender funktion in Connections. for the future I suppose there will be only one version of connections, as on-prem. In v6.5, the calendar app or functions, is gone. I supporse ther could be a sort of ...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

Missing Ideablog as App

IBM Connectons Cloud deliver Ideablog as app, but this is missong in v6.5 on-prem. When will it be back?
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

Allow "Track Changes" also for Powerpoint files

IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on powerpoint files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Powerpoint files.
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Enhance Bookmarking Tool Related Community - Add option for bidirectional entry when craeting a related community entry

There is a great Bookmarking Tool in Connections to post the current into several other communities as "related communities".Unfortunately the tool only allows to make this one way current community to multiple others. Please add the option that t...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Admin feature to collect and search all access log - especially when and who accessed what Connections contents.

I think that all access log is written in Metics DB.Please provide a SQL tool to export access log from Metrics DB by specifying the start date and end date as parameters.
almost 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

Add ability to redirect Comments (Wiki or Blog) to a Forum or Forum Topic

Comments are OK, but sometimes, they are not reviewed or looked at much, or they are adjunct to a discussion going on in the Forum, so it would be better if there was a way to reroute or use the forum, either as a topic or as a new one (with the s...
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Add breadcrumb when opening a file in a library (ccm) via a link

when i walk down the folder path in a library, there is a breadcrumb showing me where the file is located > ccmbc1.jpg. When i go to the file via a link then the breadrumb is missing >ccmbc2
about 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement