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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    Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

    I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting tas...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Update the Connections logo in the daily newsletters (Connections MT)

    The daily newsletters from Connections MT are great, but the old Connections logo are in them. As I understand it, it is in the code?
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

    Recognize Apostrophes When URLs Are Pasted in an Activity Stream Entry

    When you copy and paste a URL that has an apostrophe into a status update, for example https://www.example.com/jdoe's_example_url everything after the apostrophe is plain text instead of part of the link. This breaks the URL. In the future, we wou...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to increase attachment file upload size limitation on a user by user basis rather than across the board

    We wish to increase the file upload size to selected users, not for all users. This file size limitation should be configurable for users given the PROF GUID or PROF UUID.
    about 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Prevent syncing / download of 'restricted community' content

    We need to tighten the security on some specific communities that contain classified documents.Members should not be able to download or sync documents / files to any local storage outside the Connections app storage. Existing options (AllowExport...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Allow formatting, tables, screenshots etc. in comments

    As an IBM Connections user, I want to be able to use all formatting options that the editor provides for creating an entry in a Wiki/ Blog, Activity or wherever for commenting that entry as well because the current limitation to text-only comments...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Docs Editor for spreadsheet: Can Docs use formula to import data from another file.

    We have two xlsx files: 1.xlsx and 2.xlsx. In office, we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx. Pls see attached file: image1 shows content of 1.xlsx, while image2 shows how we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx....
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Unbundle LibreOffice package from Docs install package and use the LibreOffice version package from the Operating system

    Unbundle the LibreOffice package from the Docs install package and create a documentation that would help customers to install the LibreOffice manually. Also, suggesting to allow customers to use the LibreOffice package of the operating system ins...
    over 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Docs.Viewer - support for hyperlinks to headings inside PDFs

    At the moment only links to headings inside a word document are working. If you convert this document into a PDF you can not use these links anymore.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Mass-tagging function for Connections users

    My Suggestion: a new function of mass-tagging, so that it's possible to tag many People at the same time. For example: #firmenlaufregensburg for everyone who will attend the firmenlauf in Regensburg. My problem: my colleagues and I have been looki...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration
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