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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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Deleting automatically the Docs temp files instead of manual intervention

We understand that when there is an issue with the Conversion cluster, it also affects the viewer. For instance, when content fails to render, storage space is still consumed. Is there a way to automatically clear the temporary directory, rather t...
7 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

The "Tag" widget should default to condensed mode

In Connections 8, The "Tag" widget will by default shown in expand mode, but this take sup usefeul space , which forces the user to scroll to see the contents of a page.
about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

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 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Add an option to collapse a blog to a title and summary view vs all entries being expanded inline

For Connections (Cloud) blogs, there should be a way to collapse the blog entries so you could more easily see the headings (titles) and expand only the entry that you want to read at the time. For example: Blog title1 Short summary, perhaps th...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Most Used/followed Tags

Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Provide control of order of "menu items" in Community to Community Owner

Connections Communities use a menu bar for the different apps within the most popular and modern approaches like highlights. The sort order of the items is given by the software package. There are good ideas why "Highlight" should become the first...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

Handle confidentiality for sharing files via link from closed community

With CR4 sharing a file via link has been introduced. While this is a great way of sharing files from communities as well as the Files application, this feature can become an issue once a file is shared from a closed community. Sharing a file via ...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Limit the Number of File Versions to Retain

Files that are worked on regularly often have several hundred versions that are no longer needed. However, the normal user will not delete the old versions manually; instead, they unnecessarily use up storage space. It would be great if you could ...
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

IBM Connections mobile app to to support more mail apps. (iOS)

Currently the IBM Connections app for iOS only supports Verse and the native mail profile for mail actions such as "mailTo". When clicking on an email in Profile or a Community, the dialogue only allows you to open the email with the native mail a...
almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Blogs - Add Role Ghost Writer

Mostly C Levels want to publish regular blog posts written on their behalf by another person. Introduce a method within Blogs to allow such a kind of content creation on behalf of another person for blogs. This might be combined with the idea of t...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration