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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    Customer would like to have the ability to save Document Locale along with the spreadsheet

    Scenario: Customer is experiencing a problems with Date formats in IBM Connections Docs (spreadsheets) They use DD/MM/CCYY format by default in the UK. But when they're editing the spreadsheets in IBM Connections Docs they're forever having to set...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Date filter in Advanced Search

    When searching for historical information, it's necessary to leave out recent documents from the search results.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to copy/paste @mentions

    Right now all @mention resources need to be added separately (every time) for @mention to work. Copy/Paste of several @mention at once, is not recognized at something valid. Copy /paste of series of @mention should work at least in major browsers.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Highlight items in new newsletter (digest) and email notifications layouts: person name, content title, etc.

    To improve readability of the new newsletter and email notification design please, please make the topic/post titles and links to topic/blog/etc. more prominent (different color, bold, ...?) as these are really hard to read for our users. Also thi...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

    Search person by telephone number

    I got a telephone call from someone I do not have in my contat list. Now I do not know how to find who called me. It would be helpful to have the Option of searching by telephone number, like a phonebook. Thanks
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Already Exists
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