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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    Allow using filters if cell is protected

    Docs disables using filters if it is placed in a protected cell (spread sheet). Excel alllows filtering in such case. Therefore users can't filter online and filters can't changed (inactivated) online if a user upload a sheet with set filters. Ple...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Delete the history of the quick search

    Give the user the option to delete the history of today in the quick search.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    The iFrame widget message should contain the complete current URL for allowing 3rd party deep linking

    It is currently impossible to create deep links to objects in 3rd party community widgets that open Connections, the widget and the desired object within the widget. The reason is that the community widget can not „see“ any additional url paramete...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 No Plans to Implement

    Wikis does not show images if IHS disk cache is enabled.

    Wikis does not show images if IHS disk cache is enabled which is introduced in the performance tuning guide. By reloading page, the images become visible, but they become invisible again by reloading. The customer is requesting us to update Wik...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Navigation between ICEC & Connections

    Create a breadcrumbs between ICEC and Communities. Therefore when I click on a file in ICEC and the file opens in the community provide that navigation to get me back to ICEC.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Paste error: "Your browser doesn't allow you to paste this way. Press Ctrl+V to paste."

    When clicking the paste or paste in plain text the following error messages display.Paste error: "Your browser doesn't allow you to paste this way. Press Ctrl+V to paste."Paste in Plain Text error: "Your browser doesn't allow you to paste plain te...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types

    Webpage built-in document viewer should be available for popular document types (MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Pictures etc.) to avoid downloading every file before it can be viewed/read.
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Already Exists

    Please improve the escaping capabilities of the CKeditor in Connections

    If a user copies and pasts the contents from e.g. a PowerPoint slide into the editor, the editor sometimes does the wild things.Please improve the escaping capabilities of the CKeditor in Connections.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Show tags in business card

    Tags provide the context of a person. It would be helpful to see this information / tags at a glance in the business card of a person (e.g. a list of tags, most frequent at first)
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Automatic translation of the link to the content title

    It would be great if I copy paste a link from connections into the editor and it gets automatically displayed with the title of the linked content. Of course, user will possibility to change the display text if he wants to (like he can do it today)
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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