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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    Increase guest invitation deadline

    External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Word document adds extra column upon download in Docs

    When downloading a Word document that has been edited in Docs, the document table will contain an additional column on the right end side of the table. Steps to reproduce the issue:1) Create a file from MS Word (2016 or the latest version) at the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Table distorted on delete row operation when columns do not align in Docs

    When a table in an MS word document (2016 or latest version) has rows with merged cells across the table, the column width of the complete table gets unaligned/distorted if any row gets deleted. The document collapses, no undo is available so the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    What is the roadmap for IBM Docs

    I know that I have ask this in relation to Pink roadmap, but I wanted to elaborate more detail just for IBM Docs. Can the number of server be reduced ? Having 3 - 4 servers just for collaborative editing does not make sense for some customer that...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Group/Stack events in activity stream

    If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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