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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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Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

ADMX Templates for Desktop Plugins

To configure group policies in a Windows Domain, typically ADMX templates are used. However, for the desktop plugins, only old ADM Templates are available, which don't work well with current Windows versions. The old ADM Files were used with Group...
about 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Make it possible to place the Survey app in the (home screen) Community on mobile

We use the survey to get response on the quality of our community and the use of Connections. To enable this we put the survey on the homepage of our community (‘s). This works for the desktop version of Connections but in the mobile app users don...
about 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 5 Under Consideration

survey forms/dialogs - enhance mouse hover function on ? to show the field help

The mouse hover function on ? to show the field help should be enhanced on survey forms/dialogs. It is a little bit arduously to find the correct cursor position to get the help pop-up displayed. It is browser independent. Please make this more us...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Add file to different folders within community

We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Option in AdminUI for Company Admin to view the overall IBM Connection Smartcloud Size and Overall Items size like Communities or stand-alone files for All users in his organization

The admin needs an overview / metric for all users and all communities to follow usages and get the used storage.
almost 6 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Link to Wiki Page of other Community or native Wikis

"Link to Wiki Page" or "Link to Wiki Attachment" are very helpful. But its only available to Pages / Attachments of the same Wiki / same Community. From my point of view it would be helpful to enable this function to select Wiki Pages / Attachment...
about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Possibility to save interesting update/event in Orient Me like on old homepage

On the old homepage it was possible to save an interesting status update or any other event within the activity stream in order to read it later or to just bookmark it for further reference. As a user I want to have the same possibility in Orient Me.
over 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

Request to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return

Customer would like to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return. Currently, the way how we handle the invisible soft return causes the text position there wrong.
about 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration