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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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Connections Cloud: an FTP or WEBDAV access for cloud users to download files.

Customer want a FTP or WEBDAV way to download files from Connections Cloud. Currently, customer can download community files from UI, but all these files will lost their folder structure. Customer need to a way to download files with folder struct...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 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...
over 5 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 get...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

Show number of new/changed items (updates) on the app tabs of a community

It would be nice if the interface of a community would show the number of changed/new entries in each app (Forum/blog/wiki/etc) behind that apps name in the left side app menu or in the tabs above (with horizontal layout). That way the users would...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Provide option to request access to restricted content

Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the...
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

Update "Action Required" if action is done

For IBM Connections 5.5 and IBM Connections 6.0: There are some applications which add items to the "Action Required" activity stream like: Activity > Assign TODO item to an user CCM Library > Document approval / review Community > ...
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

Change Embedded WebView behavior

For some deployments it would be helpful if a link that i tap on opens in in either Safari or another App. For some links still embedded is preferred. Idea: Create a domain whitelist for handing over to Operating System Example Scenario: ...
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Support standard keyboard shortcut F2 for rename of file

In Windows Explorer F2 is the shortcut to rename a file in Windows Explorer. This is not available in Desktop Plugin. Her you have to make a right mouse click. Can you please enable the plugin to do so too.
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement