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 Community catalog view logic for "recent updates" to show updates rather than all reads

    The Trending with My Company view shows the number of "recent updates" for each community. This number is the total number of all events reflected in the ElasticSearch index for each community over the last 7 days. This includes visits and other r...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Under Consideration

    Requesting the ability to update strings in Highlights app

    Updating product strings in the Highlights app is only available if a deployment has full Connections Engagement Center entitlement. Without it, the strings cannot be modified. Requesting the ability to modify strings without full Connections Enga...
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Show folders a file is shared with in the Desktop connecor "Sharing Details" window too.

    Currently if a file is shared with one or more personal folders this is shown on the sharing tab in the Browser view but not shown on the "Sharing Details" option when using the Windows Explorer Desktop Connector (only shares with people or commun...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugin for Linux

    As a Linux user, I would love to see the desktop plugin made available for Linux systems as well. So that you can easily access your files without having to launch the browser. This should be possible in a similar way as under macOS? In recent tim...
    over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

    Thumbnail not visible (actual mini images of uploaded files) for files (imgaes, pdf etc.), instead general mini image (of pdfs, jpeg) is visible

    When you upload a file ( inside community Library ) general icon of PDF or JEPG is visible as thumbnail, it should be actual image of uploaded file. I've tested it on several environments like Connections 6 CR5,CR4 and on 5.5 versions also.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Desktop Plugin - printer integration

    In some cases we use PDF's and other tools. for better integration without any ribons or something else, it might be a good idea to integrate a printer driver to convert and upload any information to hcl connections. This is an request against One...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability within Docs to specify multiple font colors within a spreadsheet cell

    This is a request to introduce the ability within Docs to specify multiple font colors within a spreadsheet cell. Currently, within the Docs editor, the only option is to select one uniform color to set the text within the cell. However, when work...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Show Subcommunities on the Community Overview Page

    Since CR4 there is the new Community Overview Page. But it does not show Subcommunities. Please fix this or add an option to activate this.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists

    Uninstall option to remove all personal preferences in IBM Connections Plugin for Microsoft Desktop

    Once installed and set preferences like NA DC, then installation does not remove them, resulting being unable to change DC after reinstallation. It is quite natural for users to be selectable whether user personal information / preferences shall b...
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Docs Co-Editing show in depth changes made to files

    As a couple of people were working on a file they did not know they were in co-editing.One left and the other made changes to Values the other Person changed. Him leaving the files the changes of the first person wont be changed and can't be track...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement
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