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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    Open docs/files attached to activities in IBM's own viewer

    Documents that are stored in community folders are opened in IBM's own viewer with at the right side the panel with version-information etcera. However documents that are attached to activities are opened with the viewer (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    extend FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles functionality

    The FilesDataIntegrityService.checkFiles currently does not have the ability to gracefully handle situations where references to a file/files exist within the Files database but do not exist on the filesystem. The command's current behavior is it ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Mobile App Viewer limit to share document required

    The mobile app document viewer is very helpful. But it allows to share a viewed document - this is now a problem for DLP. There should be a setting to disallow that.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    WsAdmin Command for IBM Connections Docs View List

    A command to change the ViewerList. Only the names should be displayed.
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    A completed virus scan doesn't reload the page after file upload.

    After a new file versions is uploaded, a message displays that the file is being scanned and preview is not available. Once the virus scan has completed, the page doesn't auto refresh so the end user thinks there is a problem. The enhancement woul...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Web document open methods

    There are 3 different methods to open an object - 1.) click on the icon - file is opened read-only, 2.) click on the link - file is opened in read-write mode, 3.) click on download button - file is downloaded with no Connections menu items in Word...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    ENHANCEMENT: PERSONAL GROUPS DO NOT SYNCHRONIZE TO THE DEVICE CO NTACTS APPLICATION.

    This was raised in 2014 - has there been any progress on this since then?
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    More informative message and ability to grant permission when trying to share from Photos on Android

    If you try to share an item from Photos on Android, and if you haven't yet granted permission to the Connections Mobile app to access photographs on the device, you will be prompted with the following message: "You do not have permission to access...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Disable preview for xls (Excel) files

    Currently Docs previews has some limitations. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 In order to workaround these issues, we would like to only download .xls files, instead of previewing it.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to paste a reference to the number of the paragraph

    We are working with lawyers who need a solution to create, approve and publish normative acts. The feature they need is a support to paste within the text of the document a reference to the number of other paragraph (eg. [...] and in such case we ...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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