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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    Desktop Plug-in file locked status is displayed incorrectly

    When user closes a file that has been locked, the status of the file in desktop plugin windows explorer remains locked even if the file has been unlocked. Users need to refresh the windows explorer to change the state of the file. It would be help...
    5 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Accept/decline community invitations from within the notification

    "When a Connections user is invited to a community they should be able to accept/decline from within the invitation notification email, or be redirected to a page where the accept/decline options are clear. "Also, the Connections Administrator sho...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Viewing and editing of documents or powerpoint with charts

    Currently, Viewing and editing of charts remains a limitation in Docs 2.0.2. When you open to view or edit a PPT or documents that contains charts, it will not be displayed. It is only possible to display charts if this will be converted to images...
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugin - Suppress Sync Errors During Server Maintenance (Maintenance Mode)

    Idea: Implement a logic within the HCL Connections Desktop Plugin that detects when the server is in a designated "Maintenance State" (e.g. HTTP 503 or HTTP 540) and temporarily suppresses user-facing error pop-ups. User Story: From the Administra...
    4 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Make Desktop plugin to appear as a drive/location in Windows

    Please change the way desktop plugin is presented in Windows - make it available in all open/save dialogues so we can work with Connections files from any application. It should appear the same way as Dropbox, Box.com etc. For example, I need fre...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    Ability to apply default/template view to Desktop Plugin folder views in Windows

    Requesting the ability to apply folder template view to the way the Desktop Plugin displays folder contents in Windows.
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

    Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

    Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Make COMMUNITY VIEWER a Permanent Community Feature in Connections!

    Community Viewer Allows end users to See All the Communities they Follow or Belong to, and to organize All their communities by in grid or list form, to be able to access your Most needed, and to quickly Launch to a specific area in the Community-...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 20 Future Consideration

    Document version comparison

    Is there a way to easily view the changes between two different versions of the same document in the newest version of the document? We are looking for a tool that compare vision against each other Other than: It seems that the only way to tell wh...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase the file size limits in IBM Docs

    Currrently the viewers are limited. Allow the preview of presentation files that have more than 150 slides
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Under Consideration
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