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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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Add ability to create a Folder Link to a Community Folder inside Activities

Behavior when attempting to Create a Folder Link vs Creating a File Link are different. Folder Link does not give the option to link a folder that is contained within the same Community. Files Link does allow for linking of file contained within s...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Requesting that the logging of actions related to files in the Cloud journal specify the file type

Currently when a file is created, uploaded, updated, viewed, etc, the Cloud journal logs the type as type="FILE" regardless of the actual file type (video, photo, document, spreadsheet, etc). The customer would like the journal entries to specify ...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Requesting that the creation of communities vs subcommunities be logged uniquely in the Cloud journal

Currently when you create a new community the action gets logged in the journal as type="COMMUNITY". When you create a subcommunity it also gets logged in the journal as type="COMMUNITY". The customer would like the creation of communities and sub...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Pin a status

As a user I can pin a status update to my profile so that it appears on top the other status updates for those viewing the profile. (Similar to Twitter)
over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement
119 VOTE

Link Shortening

Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

Allow "Track changes" also for. xlsx files

IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on xls files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Excel files.
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
137 VOTE

@mention a community in order to notify all members

Allow users to (at)mention communities in order to notify a big group of people/teams. Currenlty only mentioning of people is allowed.
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 10 Future Consideration

Outlook Connections Plug-in to co-exist with the Harmonie plug-in

Our organisation has made the decision to move to O365 while we truly believe that IBM Connections offers the best value in enterprise collaboration. BUT we are now facing the issue that the two plug-ins that we offer for easy SharePoint sharing f...
over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists
189 VOTE

Mark Community as Inactive/Read Only

Frequently communities and sub communities are used to support projects. As soon as the project ends there shall be no new contents within this community. At the very moment Connections does not allow to set this community to read only. Please int...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

Merge of communities

Allow several communities to merge their entire contents requested by a common owner of these communities.
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration