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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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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 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 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 7 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 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 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.
about 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 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 6 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...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Show file is locked icon when in "Show All" inside Community

In the Overview page in your Community, you can see behind the file a locked-icon. This icon dissapears when you press show all. In the All Files overview, you cannot see if the file is locked or not, you have to open it first.
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Provide "Move" Feature for Sections in Activities

In IBM Connection's activities there is a Move option for single items and there child entries. This provides a very convenient way to move content between different activities. Unfortunately this option is not available for sections and their con...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Customer would like to have the ability to save Document Locale along with the spreadsheet

Scenario: Customer is experiencing a problems with Date formats in IBM Connections Docs (spreadsheets) They use DD/MM/CCYY format by default in the UK. But when they're editing the spreadsheets in IBM Connections Docs they're forever having to set...
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration