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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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Enhance ideation blogs with status field

An idea in the ideation blog should have a customizable field for the status: in review, validating, rejected, will be implemented and so on. It should also be possible to assign an idea for review to a person with some kind of dead line. Open, ...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Make Limit for first load in Windows Explorer Plug-Ins configurable (default is 500)

The current versions of the Windows Explorer Plug-Ins initially load a maximum of 500 files in case a community or a user has more than this limit. Users request to have different settings and not to use „Get All“ by a right mouse click everything...
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

Ability to restore data past 90 days and ability to be added for admin for below functionality.

List of ALL communities belonging to company users. There is function for administrators to retrieve this List of Admin, and guest users for each community. There is function for administrators to retrieve this Last time each community was used ...
almost 6 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
about 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Allow to discover new content that you are not following already

With Orient me, the filter criterias have changed from to only people communities and tags. Filtering for additional services is not possible any longer.
about 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

Take Original Meta Data When Uploading Files Via Browser View

When uploading a file via IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows the original meta data (creation data, original author) are take with it. When uploading a file via web interface, Connections takes the date of uploading the file in...
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Change default value of overwriting a newer version via desktop-plugin

In case a user is working in an outdated version of a file in Connections saved as a local draft e.g. and tries to upload this version as the newest version to Connections, the plug-in prompts the user that the server file has changed since the us...
almost 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Formatting comments in the ideation blog

Function for formatting comments in the ideation blog. Similar to writing an idea, fomatization and moderation options could help to write comments or give feedback. Besides, adding images in the comment section would help.
about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration