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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    From the connections desktop plugin save file directly in shared folder

    Now it's only possible to save file in you own folders or communities. Our users wanted also save files in shared folders from colleagues.
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Access multiple accounts in the Connections Notes Plugin

    I'm requesting the ability to connect to more than one account within the Connections Notes plugin, for example, an on-prem account and a Cloud account. This is already available in the Connections Desktop plugin.
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Notes Plugin for Connections Activities needs Community awareness

    The Connections plugin for Notes misses in the Activities integration a critical feature. It's not "Community aware". Plugin cannot: Create a new activity in the context of a community Tasks created in a community activitiy (that is available when...
    about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Websphere V9 Support for Connections and Windows Server 2019 Support!

    I know that you won't want to do so much with Websphere in the future, but as long as Websphere is still supported, it would be great if Connections finally supports Websphere version 9!
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Under Consideration

    Alert for working on the same document, using the IBM Connections File Sync plugin

    If your using the IBM Connections File Sync plugin and you open documents in Finder/Explorer, there's a chance someone else is working on the same document. If so, 2 files will be created. You don't want that. Is it possible to receive an alert (e...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 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
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