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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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Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner fo...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Display files without folder association in Community folder view as files in root folder

Currently it is hardly possible to distinguish between files that are placed in a specific folder and files that are only visible in the Files view of the Community library (files that have been uploaded directly to the Files section), since all C...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Allow Desktop plugin to sync certain user-defined folders and its subfolders with My Files

in S1 you have 1Tb space available but can't use it to backup you local work folder to the cloud. its way more convinient to have the whole local folder and its subfolders synced with My Files. and be able to change files localy so that they chang...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Already Exists

Request to update Component Pack Helm charts to apiVersion v2

The Helm charts included with Component Pack 7.0.0.2 are compatible with Helm v3, but there are charts with apiVersion v1 (e.g. charts associated with Elasticsearch). This request is to update all charts for all images to apiVersion v2.
almost 2 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
over 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

A new function that logs the user's operation contents with the user name and date and time. At least a record of login operations was requested.

The requested log starts with each user's login operation, and records the create operation and update operation in each application. The Cloud feature of IBM Cloud Connections was logging user operations. A user started using on-premises Connect...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review