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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    Notification if File/Folder deleted

    Get a e-mail notification as community owner if someone deletes a file or folder!
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    External Users should be able to use the "My Notes" Widget within a external community

    We notice that an External Users can not take notices in the "My Notes" Widget but we would request to make this feature working for external users. This feature is popular with our internal users and should be used by a large number of external u...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Assessment

    Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

    The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Allow direct download of desktop plug-in (not via Flexnet)

    Nowadays users can download desktop plug-ins only via HCL Flexnet - which nobody manages to do so. Even many adminisrators have troubles to download files from Flexnet and update download links in Connections (My Drive page) regularly. Therefore u...
    almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Add setting to not show sub Communities in My Communities

    Please allow a server setting to filter out sub communities from hte My Community list. For some users this is confusing depending how they work with Communities and sub communities. Having a server wide settings would be beneficial
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Need delete cell function with 2 options "shift cells left" & "shift cells up" in Docs document

    MS EXCEL has "delete cell" function with 2 options "shift cells left" & "shift cells up", refer to attachment of 1.png & 2.png Customer needs Docs to have the same feature MS Excel has.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Adding new members to Moderated communities

    Nowadays when a new user is interested in joining a Community, they send a request which shows up in the notifications of the owners, when you click on this notification the next screen is the main page of the community of interest, then you have ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

    filetypes for Docs Viewer - add OneNote (.one) support

    Please add OneNote support for Docs. Viewing these files would be helpful for most companys using OneNote.
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Need to set multiple format for the characters in one cell when editing an excel file online in Docs

    When edit an excel file on local via MS office, customer can set multiple format for the characters in one cell,e.g, different font size, colors, refer to the attachment of "Formats on local.png". In IBM Docs, when customer edit an excel file onl...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Option to export all participants of an event

    At the moment on our Connections 5.5 onprem system as well as in the Connections Social Cloud there is no feature or option to export the participants list of an community event. Via API calls we can develop a simple workaround but it would be nic...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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