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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    Provide "Move" Feature for Sections in Activities

    In IBM Connection's activities there is a Move option for single items and there child entries. This provides a very convenient way to move content between different activities. Unfortunately this option is not available for sections and their con...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Outlook plug-in Support for syncing edited files back to connections

    When one opens a file from connections in outlook and then edit it, the change won't be sync back to connections.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Customer would like to have the ability to save Document Locale along with the spreadsheet

    Scenario: Customer is experiencing a problems with Date formats in IBM Connections Docs (spreadsheets) They use DD/MM/CCYY format by default in the UK. But when they're editing the spreadsheets in IBM Connections Docs they're forever having to set...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Make Blog URLs immutable

    As a connections user, I want to be able to change the title of a blog post without the link to it changing, so that I can add permanent links to it from other parts of Connections or the company intranet. Suggested solution: Change the URL addres...
    about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    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/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Explorer Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Add Column to show "local draft" in views

    You already provide a right mouse click option to publish local drafts from the Windows Explorer. Unfortunately there is no property which shows the user which files have a local draft within this view (only accessible vie the tray icon at the ver...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Import Activity (Connections & Connections Cloud)

    Export Activity is a supported function in both IBM Connections and IBM Connections Cloud. It should be possible to also import an Activity. This provides more than the obvious benefit. In providing support for both import and export Activities be...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities

    Customer would like to have the ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities.. Currently the resource is available through the UI
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Allow SVG as graphic file in wiki when using insert/edit image button

    The current function allows to upload an image file as attachment and automatically generate the image in the wiki page from the attachment: create wiki page use insert / edit image button choose attachment choose upload a new image and link to i...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration
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