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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    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

    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

    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

    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

    Add ICEC during user registration

    Customer would like to have the option to add ICEC during user registration. Now he doesn't see this option, and he has to create the user and then edit add ICEC after registration
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Outlook Connections Plug-in to co-exist with the Harmonie plug-in

    Our organisation has made the decision to move to O365 while we truly believe that IBM Connections offers the best value in enterprise collaboration. BUT we are now facing the issue that the two plug-ins that we offer for easy SharePoint sharing f...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Enable to see communities list via Windows Desktop Plug-in

    Communities list (community catalog) can be seen via browser, but these cannot be seen via Windows Desktop Plug-in. Please enable to see communities list via Windows Desktop Plug-in. IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows https://g...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Notification of personal folder in community

    We discovered a behavior in the Connections Community.Here's the problem description: Expected behavior: A user shares a personal folder with a community The user expects all community members that are following the community to be notified Actual...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow members in a subcommunity that are not members of the parent.

    Create a subcommunity and have members of that subcommunity that are not members of the parent.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Support for viewing and editing of files with encryption methods other than RC4

    Steps to reproduce issue: Using MS Office Word 2013 create a document and then use the option "File" --> "Protect Document" --> "Encrypt with Password" After the file is encrypted with password upload to IBM Connections Cloud "My Files" Afte...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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