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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    Change Invite process and possibilities into a more manageable service.

    In order to get a better understanding about your invited external users, there is a need for change in that process. Optional choice of security: Disallow all users to invite externals, except for those with the rights to do so. ( Like with Commu...
    about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Future Consideration

    Build option to remove and reorder apps in a community in Connections 7

    In Connections 7 the new community homepage is the Highlights page. This page does not allow you to remove apps from the community (which was possible with the overview page) . It only allows you to remove the widget from the highlights page but t...
    about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

    Need a way to work in a Community Files app “offline” and sync to the cloud automatically when online again

    Environment: Smart Cloud Connections Refer to below URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSL3JX/files/c_files_sync_refresh.html You can Use My Drive to work with files offline, files you add and edit in My Drive are automatically ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Docs: Hope to create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area

    Problem: Can not create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area Steps to reproduce:1. user1 create a new excel file in Docs, share to user2 and user3 as Editors.2. user1 select the whole 2nd line of the file, assign "Edi...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically. Allow a config setting to disable the pop-up after editing documents in office and check them in automatically instead of asking to check in the document
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole)

    I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole) - and when copied, it is named "Copy of <original name>" unless I edit the name before it is saved the first time. Maybe also include a choice on whether to copy comments and attachm...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    New employees should automatically follow administrator-defined communitys

    New employees should automatically follow multiple communities. These communities are to be defined by the administrator.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Already Exists

    Support for Desktop Plugin under Windows Terminalservices /Citrix

    This useful feature needs support for the Windows Terminalservice/Citrix Envirnoment. The Windows/Citrix environment is the strategy of the IT vendor of saving banks in germany. Without this feature the files application is not practicably usable....
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 No Plans to Implement

    Change the default number of communities loading in Communities catalog page

    Communities catalog page renders only 10 communities at initial load. The card view has 4 communities per row, and with current setting 2 rows are rendered in full and the third row is rendered in half, with 2 communities. It would look better if ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Customer request "Paste Options" feature when editing Excel files

    In office, when you edit excel files, and copy/paste a grid with formula(see image1 as an example). You can choose paste options->paste special to select which content you want to paste: formula or value(See image2, image3). This feature is not...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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