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 handling of deleted folders

    Files application works in a way that when you are working on that specific folder, and you open another application, and then go back to Files application, the system will redirect you to the last folder you visited. If someone deletes that folde...
    about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Microsoft Office shows UUID instead of folder names at the overview with recently opened files

    If I open for example Microsoft Word and want to open a recently used file it shows only the UUID of the folder instead of the name. This is very confusing since we have often the case that a file has the same name but is from different communitie...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Mobile App can't add apps to Community

    Mobile App users can create communities, but they can't add applications, so it is not possible to add e.g., Wikis to this created community. Please add the option to add applications to communities (for owners).
    about 3 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Fix JS errors from external users invite system

    A vanilla CNX 6.5 installation throws JS errors: XML Parsing Error: not well-formedLocation: https://cnx65.internal/selfservice/acl/inviteLine Number 1, Column 1: The mentioned url returns the following JSON: {"access":false} So something is wrong...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Allow "Track Changes" also for Powerpoint files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on powerpoint files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Powerpoint files.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Doubled magnifying glasses in Connections Android App

    Doubled magnifying glasses are displayed when a PDF file is viewed. This is very annoying.Ideally it should show only the PDF zoom magnifying glass symbol and hide the standard zoom option.
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Provide overview of files being followed

    As long as downloaded files are being followed by default, which you might like/want or not, my notification overview is floaded with updates to files that I don't care about. Of course i can go to the file and unfollow, but wouldn't it be far mor...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    "Home" button on Connections- finder

    i am a heavy user of the Connections-Finder tool (the phone-guide) and always have to use the browsers "back" arrow one or several times to get back to the starting screen. A "Home" button would help a lot.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Clarification

    Communities with names that contain @ sign are not ranked properly in search results

    A '@' special character is causing the community name to be searched as two terms. E.g. a name like XY@AB-CD is not found as a whole. The sign @ avoids that the whole phrase can be found (e.g. “XY@AB-CD”) or in a good ranking (result page 10 or mo...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    To Do Items - activities. Ability to create workstream notifications/email of upcomming to-do items. This is above and beyond the due date. Specify a date to signal reminder to work item that is due

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    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement
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