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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    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

    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

    Open bookmark directly when clicking on "open" in the newsletter instead of showing the overview list

    Our users reported that the got a newsletter notification mail about new bookmarks and when clicking on the "open" link in the newsletter, the browser navigates to the bookmarks overview page. Example url: https://cnx.host/communities/service/html...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Get calendar app back to Community

    It is likely that a lot of users are missing calender funktion in Connections. for the future I suppose there will be only one version of connections, as on-prem. In v6.5, the calendar app or functions, is gone. I supporse ther could be a sort of ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Missing Ideablog as App

    IBM Connectons Cloud deliver Ideablog as app, but this is missong in v6.5 on-prem. When will it be back?
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    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

    Enhance Bookmarking Tool Related Community - Add option for bidirectional entry when craeting a related community entry

    There is a great Bookmarking Tool in Connections to post the current into several other communities as "related communities".Unfortunately the tool only allows to make this one way current community to multiple others. Please add the option that t...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future 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
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