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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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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 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Markdown editor

Hi, For writing wikis, it should be quicker using Markdown langage. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Possible to integrate a Markdown editor in connections ? Regards. SC.
over 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Already Exists

Highlight items in new newsletter (digest) and email notifications layouts: person name, content title, etc.

To improve readability of the new newsletter and email notification design please, please make the topic/post titles and links to topic/blog/etc. more prominent (different color, bold, ...?) as these are really hard to read for our users. Also thi...
over 3 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

Support IBM Installation Manager v 1.9. with Connections

At this time still the old v1.8.5, packaged with the Connections installation is supported. Please test and support the newer IIM v1.9 asap.In ref to this IBM Technote- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installation-manager-and-packaging-utility-d...
over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

Export "Tags" per User

Requirement of Export all People Tags from the User.We do not have any export tags per user. Example: User:XYZ Tags: IT, Support, Specialist, AdministratorUser:ABC Tags: IT, Support, Hotline, Mailsupport.... In the DB2 "PEOPLEDB" the "PEOPLE_TAG" ...
over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

Quick Link to Folder in Forum Application

At the moment it is only possible to create a Link to a Specific File not to the Folder from the Community. Pls add the possibility to "Add Folderlink". Workaround is at the moment. Go to the Folder, copy Link from the URL bar and add it manually ...
over 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Increase guest invitation deadline

External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

Enabled the option deep linking on mobile Connections on prem

In case users are receiving mail notifications on IOS mail links to Connections app are not working anymore. Please support the mobile worker and improve this mobile experience. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connectionsmobile/admin/overview/conn_mobi...
over 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

If no profile picture exists, then profile picture with abbreviation of first and last name.

If people don't upload a picture there is only the one default profil icon - even not gender neutral. Would be nice to show the profile ficture with abbreviation of first and last name. This is common way - e.g. MS Teams, Outlook etc.
over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration