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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    enhance type ahead search on Connections to find people by tags

    The users wishes to search and look for people by tags not only from the directory search. The user will use the Type-ahead search e.g. directly from Homepage via the Search magnifying glass icon, enter a tag and all available results should be di...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    @mention inconsistencies among Connections versions when using copy/paste method to when inserting user name/email rather than typing it out.

    Steps to reproduce:1. Write a list of 3 or 4 names in a text editor (i.e. Notepad++), i.e. Test User1 Test User2 Test User3 2. Navigate to a CKEditor (i.e. status update, blog, forum, etc.)3. Type a "@" symbol in editor.4. Copy and paste the firs...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Simplify activitystream handling

    add the simple actions from the flyout to the activity stream itself, for all notification types. eg. accept, ignore network invitations, commenting on blogs and likes . Open the flyout to like a file or blogpost is just depressing...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Maintenance announcements posts in a multi language format.

    Maintenance announcements which displays 2 or 3 days before maintenance when user logs in to Connections Cloud are only in English. It would be shown in their preferred language.And Customer Admin would be set the users who display these announcem...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Disable preview for xls (Excel) files

    Currently Docs previews has some limitations. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 In order to workaround these issues, we would like to only download .xls files, instead of previewing it.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Limit access for global moderator only via moderation application

    In the current releases of IBM Connections, global moderators are allowed to access all communities (public and private). If a global moderator is not member of a specific community, he might not be able to access dedicated community applications ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to paste a reference to the number of the paragraph

    We are working with lawyers who need a solution to create, approve and publish normative acts. The feature they need is a support to paste within the text of the document a reference to the number of other paragraph (eg. [...] and in such case we ...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Refuse the use of the plugin for parts of the user base

    Due to strict data security requirements from the authorities, we have a need to refuse the use of plug-in from the internet without two factor authentication.My idea is to be able to set up a dedicated web server that only gives access to Connect...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Embed Gist code in Connections

    Unfortunately in Connections you can not embed code in Gist using the default Gist feature. <script src="http://github..... because scripts are blocked in Connections. (after saving the HTML <script> block is simply removed) It would be g...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Hide HTML Guide by default

    When switching to HTML SOURCE in the Connections Editor for a Wiki page, I would like the HTML Guide to be hidden by default, because it takes a lot of place and I always need to click on HIDE GUIDE when editing the source code
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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