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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03. Files

    Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

    It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Move/Copy files from the search result

    The Desktop Plugin is often used to move files from one location to another. I would like to be able to add any results from a file search to a community, provided I have the necessary permissions to do so.Please design the file search results so ...
    3 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Upload PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Connections

    Hello, it would be a nice feature to upload a PDF file directly to Connections. When I have a open document in Adobe Reader --> save --> at Connections. Tags etc as following steps.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

    Integrate Connections Files into Domino Leap Applications

    We do have some important Domino Leap applications for documentational purposes that contain "attachment fields". Currently this field type is just a regular upload/drop zone field where you can match 1 attachment to each field. If a new version o...
    6 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Create one single repository for all files & attachments so behavior is uniform across all elements of IBM Connections

    Currently personal files, community files, (if available) CCM files, blog attachments, forum attachments, wiki attachments and activity attachments are all stored in individual and separate file repositories with their own limits, behaviors and op...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Allow users to remove themselves from a file shared with them

    The list of "files shared with me" contains files other people shared with you and can be quite extensive. Sometimes these include files people are no longer interested in or feel they shouldn't have access to (GDPR). At the moment, only the origi...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Abliity to change the external share status of a file after upload

    Currently, you can only decide if a file should be allowed to be shared externally during upload. If you change your mind, you should be able to change this in the UI as an owner of a file
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

    It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

    Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
    almost 8 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    Ability to have the checkbox for sharing a file externally checked by default on upload window

    Have a gatekeeper or files-config.xml setting to allow setting the "Files can be shared with people outside my organisation" checkbox to checked by default in the file upload form
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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