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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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Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

TinyMCE: @Mentions be available in all applications including Rich content app

Not all Connections apps support @Mentions in every editor context. Rich content and community description are examples. The provided functiobality should be consitent over all apps
over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

Report of Communities, Files and Mail (Size Used)

Customer would like to have a report with the information below: 1) Users X the used size of mailbox 2) Users X the used size of their share of connections Files 3) Listing Active Communities in the enterprise, with the size used by each.
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

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

SignOn screen. Please don't clear the email-address after a false login-attempt

See screenshot, is rather frustrating for our users
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Paperless Notes - like OneNote

Our Customer request an area for personal Notes - like MS OneNote without specific area to notice some information on a blank paper. Some tabs to organize the information and centralization to give some Users the information to share it. Other pos...
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

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

Cross data center collaboration. Impossible to collaborate with other Connections Cloud users. error messages insufficient / wrong

My colleague was setting up a community to collaborate with our customer who is also using Connections Cloud. My colleague first entered the contact information and then didn't get the 'Invite to My Network' link, but the 'Invite to Join' instead....
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Bookmarks to include description in default view without using "more" option

Customer would like to have the default view of Bookmarks (in all Communities) to have the description of the bookmark displayed without having to click on the "more" button.
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Handle confidentiality for sharing files via link from closed community

With CR4 sharing a file via link has been introduced. While this is a great way of sharing files from communities as well as the Files application, this feature can become an issue once a file is shared from a closed community. Sharing a file via ...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration