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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    Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

    At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

    Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Custom Logo in the IBM Connections App

    Display your own logo when starting the app. It must be possible to define your own logo via mobil-config.xml.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

    Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

    A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
    almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Connections 6.0 support for TDI/SDI 7.2

    TDI/SDI 7.2 should be added to Connections 6.0 future releases as TDI 7.1.1 has gone out of support.
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Share community file with other communities

    Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Take Original Meta Data When Uploading Files Via Browser View

    When uploading a file via IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows the original meta data (creation data, original author) are take with it. When uploading a file via web interface, Connections takes the date of uploading the file in...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Add Like and Comment functionality to embedded experience.

    Today third party widgets can be added as embedded experience in the Activity Stream of IBM Connections. Today users can interact with the widget but can not like or comment within Connections about the shown data. Idea: Create a possibility to en...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration
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