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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    Additional role “readers” for Community members

    Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Keep community logo at original resolution

    The image uploaded as a community logo gets resized to fit in 110x110 square. Requesting alternate handling to maintain original resolution
    over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    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

    Community description defined on a community template should be inherited on newly created communities

    A newly created community should contain the community description defined on a community template or customers should have the option to obtain the description defined in the template.
    about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    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

    Integrate IBM Connections Events in Calendar

    I suggest to add a simple way to add community events (e.g. community calendars) in the personal calendar of a users. I know you can do it the the IBM Notes Rich Client... but. The users wants to embrace the power of IBM Verse which currently does...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    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
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