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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    TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

    When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

    I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting tas...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Update the Connections logo in the daily newsletters (Connections MT)

    The daily newsletters from Connections MT are great, but the old Connections logo are in them. As I understand it, it is in the code?
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

    Recognize Apostrophes When URLs Are Pasted in an Activity Stream Entry

    When you copy and paste a URL that has an apostrophe into a status update, for example https://www.example.com/jdoe's_example_url everything after the apostrophe is plain text instead of part of the link. This breaks the URL. In the future, we wou...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Allow formatting, tables, screenshots etc. in comments

    As an IBM Connections user, I want to be able to use all formatting options that the editor provides for creating an entry in a Wiki/ Blog, Activity or wherever for commenting that entry as well because the current limitation to text-only comments...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Docs Editor for spreadsheet: Can Docs use formula to import data from another file.

    We have two xlsx files: 1.xlsx and 2.xlsx. In office, we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx. Pls see attached file: image1 shows content of 1.xlsx, while image2 shows how we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx....
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Unbundle LibreOffice package from Docs install package and use the LibreOffice version package from the Operating system

    Unbundle the LibreOffice package from the Docs install package and create a documentation that would help customers to install the LibreOffice manually. Also, suggesting to allow customers to use the LibreOffice package of the operating system ins...
    over 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Docs.Viewer - support for hyperlinks to headings inside PDFs

    At the moment only links to headings inside a word document are working. If you convert this document into a PDF you can not use these links anymore.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Create custom hyperlinks within the Activity Stream

    At the moment you are only able to paste a URL as hyperlink. It would be nice to paste a URL and then edit and format this hyperlink.It makes sense if you have inserted very long URLs and want to shorten them using formatting, according to the mot...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Engagement Center OWA Widget

    Create a widget that would allow users to see their most recent emails received in Outlook. We display a link to outlook in our Engagement Center menu. Ability to see recent emails while on the landing page of engagement center would be very well ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration
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