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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    Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

    Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Docs Viewer to support Spreadsheets with shapes and text.

    Currently shapes with text are not supported as per: IBM Connections Docs 2.0: Spreadsheets editor limitations http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 If files include shapes with text, when opening in IBM Docs, the text i...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    No option to create scrollbar in text editor

    Right now, you can only create scrollbars in tables with HTML scripts that use the <textarea> tags. Not everyone knows how to use HTML scripting well. It would be helpful to add a user-friendly option in the table menu or during table creati...
    8 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Upgrade the LibreOffice version that is used in Docs to a supported version

    There are customers that are regulated and are not allowed to use software which are already out of support or already reached the end of life. LibreOffice 7.2 is already out of support which is packaged in the Docs install package from HCL.
    over 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Forum upload should fail right away if the size exceeds the configured limit

    Attaching a size limit-exceeding file to a forum topic or reply takes time to fail. It would be better for the UI to recognize that the file exceeds the limit and fail immediately. Instead, end users need to wait and will eventually see an appropr...
    over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    Add an option to collapse a blog to a title and summary view vs all entries being expanded inline

    For Connections (Cloud) blogs, there should be a way to collapse the blog entries so you could more easily see the headings (titles) and expand only the entry that you want to read at the time. For example: Blog title1 Short summary, perhaps th...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Limit the Number of File Versions to Retain

    Files that are worked on regularly often have several hundred versions that are no longer needed. However, the normal user will not delete the old versions manually; instead, they unnecessarily use up storage space. It would be great if you could ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

    Activity entry template can not be used

    I have an activity and I select "Add entry" > Add a table or add links or make specific changes. Save the entry Then I go to "More Actions" "Save as Entry Template" Select a symbol and give a name. But if I then choose "more"-"Add entry templat...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Delete the notification in "Recent updates" when a blogpost is edited and saved as a draft

    There is a notification appearing in "recent updates" when someone edits and saves an existing blogpost as a draft. When you delete an existing blogpost, there is no notification informing about this action, which totally makes sense. It should wo...
    about 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Connections Whiteboard as a new file

    In Connections Files the availability to not only add Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation files, but also a Whiteboard. At least with the functionality of: - Rich Text- Drawings- Add Pictures At the Google Drive I have the availability to crea...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration
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