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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    Include the IBM developed System Applications from Portal legacy in every port to HCL DX containerized.

    There are about a dozen IBM created system applications included in WebSphere Application Server (ND) that could be inadvertently dropped if and when WAS is replaced by a non-royalty JVM like Liberty. Our company relies on one or two of these apps...
    3 months ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Support in Connections Docs for Table formulas

    A table is a feature in Excel that makes it easier to format and analyze a set of data points in a spreadsheet. Tables were introduced in Excel 2007 as an extension of the ‘Lists’ feature in the earlier versions. In Excel 2007 onwards, you can als...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Fix assigning community template admin roles

    Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Disable version summary pop-up when publishing docs from native applications

    When publishing documents from native applications using the HCL Connections plug-in, you must complete a version summary pop-up before finalizing publication. The workflow is as follows: Open a Microsoft Word document through the HCL Connection...
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration

    When edit excel file in Docs, the "filter by" action should not effect other users editing the file

    When multi users edit the excel file, if one person use the "filter by" function, all other persons will be affect. for example, if a person use "filter by name" to edit "his own content", all other persons will not be able to see their content.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Need the zoom feature for editing spreadsheet files.

    When editing word or presentation files in Docs, there is a Zoom icon(see image attached) which we can use to zoom the file's view size. But for spreadsheet files, this zoom icon is not available. Currently, end users can only use browser's zoom f...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

    It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Hope comments inside WORD document can be supported by Docs Viewer

    Tested on 2.0 CR3 ifix009.After uploading a word file to Files, got below error when viewing it:The file cannot be imported into Viewer. There is something in this file that Viewer does not support at this time. This file cannot be imported. Openi...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Future Consideration

    Preview Files for Anonymous User

    If an organization has anonymous user (e.g. workers not having/using a computer and therefore not having an account/email) which occasionally need to check the news in Connections, they are unable to see (preview) the content of public files. Plea...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 No Plans to Implement
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