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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    Provide control of order of "menu items" in Community to Community Owner

    Connections Communities use a menu bar for the different apps within the most popular and modern approaches like highlights. The sort order of the items is given by the software package. There are good ideas why "Highlight" should become the first...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    allow resize the left sidebar also for community files

    For community files we need the possibility to resize the left sidebar. Sometimes the Folder names are long and the user only see a part of the folder name and .... This is not very user friendly. The feature to resize the left sidebar (navigation...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Better Photo Viewer in Connections App!!!

    The current photo viewer in the app is not good. You have to click each photo individually. This is awkward and about 100 photos in a folder is not up to date! You can still install a photo viewer in the app automatically when slid to the right or...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Enable or Disable Change Tracking by REST API or a param

    As default, Change tracking is disabled, and it is enabled or disabled by Owner through UI only. But most of the time, When a user shared a file to his manager or others to edit ,He hope to enable Change tracking by a rest param , so he can flexib...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

    We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Blogs "Add a Comment" button to open automatically

    Currently in the Connections Blogs application, to comment on a blog post, you have to click on "Add a Comment" button, which then opens the form "Comment on this Entry". Only then can users enter the text to comment on a post. Is there a HCL Conn...
    about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Enhancement Request - Custom widget with similar functionality to TopNews widget

    In ICEC, the TopNews widget uses images and text from a blog post. i.e. similar to a top news story in a newspaper: Image + Headline + Text. When there is an image in a blog that is used by the TopNews widget this works fine. However, if the blog ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration

    Two Blogs in one Community

    Hello there, I was thinking it would be nice if one could feature two different blog streams within one community. Then one could name one "Status Updates", for example, and the other "News". Or is that already existent and I am just not aware of ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

    f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the o...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

    Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists
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