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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    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Word document adds extra column upon download in Docs

    When downloading a Word document that has been edited in Docs, the document table will contain an additional column on the right end side of the table. Steps to reproduce the issue:1) Create a file from MS Word (2016 or the latest version) at the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Table distorted on delete row operation when columns do not align in Docs

    When a table in an MS word document (2016 or latest version) has rows with merged cells across the table, the column width of the complete table gets unaligned/distorted if any row gets deleted. The document collapses, no undo is available so the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 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 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow Business Owners the ability to export information on Guest Users from Communities with in their organization

    Create a mechanism where all Smart Cloud Org Owner(s) & Business Owners have the ability to export a full and complete list of all members within their own Smart Cloud communities which will include the full list of members and their informati...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

    Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Prevent severe error in logs on Notes 9 which occur after installing and running the Connections Plugin for Notes

    Notes 901 with Connections Plugin upgrade to FP10, FP10IF2/FP10IF3 . In the logs: notes/workspace/logs The error is displayed: SEVERE error.plugin.missingresource com.ibm.lconn.client.smartcloud The error specifically complains about a missing ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Desktop connector for files: Support multi-phase resumable uploads

    Connections APIs and web application supports HTTP resumable upload for large files. CDN infrastructures like Akamai or Cloudflare have limited "post" size and this prevents large files (eg. CloudFlare single post limit is up to 500Mb) to be uploa...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    What is the roadmap for IBM Docs

    I know that I have ask this in relation to Pink roadmap, but I wanted to elaborate more detail just for IBM Docs. Can the number of server be reduced ? Having 3 - 4 servers just for collaborative editing does not make sense for some customer that...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration
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