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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    Let Files Widgets Open Links In Same Tab

    Files and Files Explorer widgets currently have links with target="_blank". As a result, if the user clicks on a filename, the browser opens a new tab, redirectes the user to the community holding the file and then opens the Docs Viewer. That take...
    about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Already Exists

    Allow "Track Changes" also for Powerpoint files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on powerpoint files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Powerpoint files.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add breadcrumb when opening a file in a library (ccm) via a link

    when i walk down the folder path in a library, there is a breadcrumb showing me where the file is located > ccmbc1.jpg. When i go to the file via a link then the breadrumb is missing >ccmbc2
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Provide overview of files being followed

    As long as downloaded files are being followed by default, which you might like/want or not, my notification overview is floaded with updates to files that I don't care about. Of course i can go to the file and unfollow, but wouldn't it be far mor...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    "Home" button on Connections- finder

    i am a heavy user of the Connections-Finder tool (the phone-guide) and always have to use the browsers "back" arrow one or several times to get back to the starting screen. A "Home" button would help a lot.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Clarification

    Communities with names that contain @ sign are not ranked properly in search results

    A '@' special character is causing the community name to be searched as two terms. E.g. a name like XY@AB-CD is not found as a whole. The sign @ avoids that the whole phrase can be found (e.g. “XY@AB-CD”) or in a good ranking (result page 10 or mo...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    To Do Items - activities. Ability to create workstream notifications/email of upcomming to-do items. This is above and beyond the due date. Specify a date to signal reminder to work item that is due

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    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Fix small font size of "pre" formattings

    When selecting "pre" as formatting-template, TinyMCE uses a very small font-size (seems to be around 10x). This make it hard to read the pre-formatted code in the editor. This should be increased by default to a few pixel more, so that can be read...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Maintenance Kudos Boards notification in one place in Connections

    Now a user has the option to manage email and browser notifications in Connections. For Kudos Boards however is a separated admin console where one can enable or disable email notifications. Make notifications more efficient and possible on one ce...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hope to add "Allow editors of the folder to edit this file" in creating or editing document

    When user upload new document in a shared folder, there is check box "Allow editors of the folder to edit this file", the default value is allowing editing document. When user did uncheck this check box uploading document, any other guy in the sha...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
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