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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    Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

    Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
    almost 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Full type-ahead functionality for search Community that contains the accented characters

    When searching for a Community via the catalog search, inputting any special character returns zero results. Currently a known product limitation but highly requested by customers as many languages incorporating special characters. Was provide a...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

    When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    I'd like the ability to share blogs with other communities.

    When multiple business areas are affected by a change, I'd like the ability to post a blog and share it as a blog on the other impacted communities.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    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

    Preview file rather than download file when clicking on file name in wiki

    As a Connections user, I want a file to be shown in Connections rather than being downloaded when I click on file name in Wiki because the purpose of Connections is to collaborate on files rather than distributing them to client computers. When a ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Use proper h1 heading for blog entrys instead of h4

    The titles in the blog app (https://<connections-hostname>/blogs/) uses a h4 heading, as you can see here: <td class="lotusFirstCell entryContentContainerTD blogsWrapText"><a name="xyz" id="xyz"></a> <h4> <a id="e...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 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

    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

    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
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