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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    Access multiple accounts in the Connections Notes Plugin

    I'm requesting the ability to connect to more than one account within the Connections Notes plugin, for example, an on-prem account and a Cloud account. This is already available in the Connections Desktop plugin.
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

    Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Community description defined on a community template should be inherited on newly created communities

    A newly created community should contain the community description defined on a community template or customers should have the option to obtain the description defined in the template.
    about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    No option to create scrollbar in text editor

    Right now, you can only create scrollbars in tables with HTML scripts that use the <textarea> tags. Not everyone knows how to use HTML scripting well. It would be helpful to add a user-friendly option in the table menu or during table creati...
    8 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Integrate IBM Connections Events in Calendar

    I suggest to add a simple way to add community events (e.g. community calendars) in the personal calendar of a users. I know you can do it the the IBM Notes Rich Client... but. The users wants to embrace the power of IBM Verse which currently does...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Notes Plugin for Connections Activities needs Community awareness

    The Connections plugin for Notes misses in the Activities integration a critical feature. It's not "Community aware". Plugin cannot: Create a new activity in the context of a community Tasks created in a community activitiy (that is available when...
    about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Alert for working on the same document, using the IBM Connections File Sync plugin

    If your using the IBM Connections File Sync plugin and you open documents in Finder/Explorer, there's a chance someone else is working on the same document. If so, 2 files will be created. You don't want that. Is it possible to receive an alert (e...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

    Forum upload should fail right away if the size exceeds the configured limit

    Attaching a size limit-exceeding file to a forum topic or reply takes time to fail. It would be better for the UI to recognize that the file exceeds the limit and fail immediately. Instead, end users need to wait and will eventually see an appropr...
    over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    Add an option to collapse a blog to a title and summary view vs all entries being expanded inline

    For Connections (Cloud) blogs, there should be a way to collapse the blog entries so you could more easily see the headings (titles) and expand only the entry that you want to read at the time. For example: Blog title1 Short summary, perhaps th...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    The Desktop Plugin login page pops up when Microsoft Office Application is oppened, even though user don't have an intention to use plugin ATM

    When user opens one of Microsoft Office Applications the Desktop Plugin login page pops up even though user don't have an intention to use plugin ATM and does not have a session - so user must login, otherwise the login page keeps popping up. Woul...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration
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