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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Convert community file to personal file

Currently it is possible to convert a personal file to a community file, but not yet the other way around
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Update the Connections logo in the daily newsletters (Connections MT)

The daily newsletters from Connections MT are great, but the old Connections logo are in them. As I understand it, it is in the code?
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

Full type-ahead functionality for search Community that contains the accented characters

When searching for a Community via the catalog search, inputting any special character returns zero results. Currently a known product limitation but highly requested by customers as many languages incorporating special characters. Was provide a...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

Do not translate highlights

The new app highlight is translated into German with "Schwerpunkte". The automatic translation of the Knowlegde Center translates it into "Besondere Funktionen" Do you have to translate the term? The "Tags" have not been translated. It's good that...
almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

Ability for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Desktop Plugins: automatically clean up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing.

CHANGE REQUEST: Build something into a new version of the installer which automatically cleans up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing. REASON FOR CHANGE:Customer has had problems getti...
almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

Improve logging options for 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. The task only logs w...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability to delete the reposts from your profile

Users cannot delete a status reposting from their Connections profiles. If the admin deletes it, the original status is also gone. It will be useful to simply delete such reposts, because most of them are reposted by mystake.
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

community owner/member list report

That would be great, if all users could run a report, which lists, in which communities a certain person is a member or owner. (We have to validate our accesses on a quarterly basis, so this kind of report would be much appreciated!)
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Missleading error message - when a library limit defined by policy is being hit - either by upload or update of an existing file - the error message should be meaningful

During uploading a new version of file to Connections from the File preview if user is going to break his personal library limit, he is getting an error: "Cannot save a new file version. Please try again later." It is missleading. Users are ge...
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration
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