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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    Introduce autofollow functionality for new community members in the IBM Connections cloud environment.

    Currently, within IBM Connections cloud new community members are not set to automatically follow the community. The new member must explicitly select to follow the community. Therefore, this request is to change the behavior so that new community...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to attach multiple files at once when replying to Forums

    Currently there is only an option to attach one file at a time while replying on forum topics.The user is forced either zip the files and attached the zip itself or attach/download one file at a time. A zip file cannot be used in searches & fo...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow for Excell Macros to run in DOCS editor

    Currently Macros are not supported to be run or edited when working on an Excel spreadsheet in DOCS. The request is to allow for Macros already created in the spreadsheet to be able to run when in edit mode in DOCS
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Have a migration path for Media Gallery of IC 5.x to Gallery app in IC6.0

    When migrating IC 5.0 to IC 6CR3, it removes the media gallery widget from all communities.We know that the media gallery is deprecated since 5.5... and replaced with the Gallery app.but we would expect that the media gallery widget is migrated to...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Find all my own comments via filtering in connections

    If a user has marked e.g. a blog-content by adding a comment (and e.g. forwarding this to collegues of own department), it is not possible to find all own comments by setting such a filter. Only if one follows the relevant community
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    DOCS edit: insert row into a table with merged cells in Presentation

    DOCS edit: insert row into a table with merged cells in Presentation (not working now, shown as grey in function-list)
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Have Language Selector preference in IBM Connections to be "honored" by IBM Docs.

    Would like to have the possibility, to control the language for IBM Docs the same way as the Connections, either directly (same language as selected in Connections) or manually by button. Connections has this option: Enabling users to set a langua...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    To be able to search content contained in folder descriptions

    We stored transport numbers in the file folder description. Now, we are in need to be able to pull up a random list of transport numbers up and provide the auditor with the corresponding documentation. Much to our surprise, transport numbers were ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Organize notification email by community, not by contributor

    Hi, I get a weekly digest of my connections notifications. They're arranged by contributor. I like to keep track of some communities more than others; It would be a lot easier to review notifications if they were arranged by community, so I didn't...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Add Ephox Textbox.io to the cloud as a rich text editor option

    Customers have requested the ability to switch the default rich text editor for Connections Cloud.A lot of our users need the functionality to copy/paste or drag/drop files and images into the rich text editor window for blogs, wiki's, forums, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement
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