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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    In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

    It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    TinyMCE "Code Sample .." in Forums

    We noticed that the funcion "Code Sample .." in TinyMCE is missing for Forums when creating Forum Topics. We would appriciate to add this function also there.
    almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Add change summary

    It would be useful to have the possibility to add a change summary to a new version of a file after the version has been published in case the user forgot to add it while uploading. Should be only possible for the user who uploaded the new version.
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

    It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

    As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Custom Page for User

    A self-assembled page. Our users would like a page that you can put together yourself. A page like Orient.Me only better configurable according to user's request with widgets. It would be best if the administrator could define the widgets that the...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration

    Remove the [ ] in "Platformname"

    Customer followed this official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/customize/t_customize_new_template.html it is mentioned, that it's prossible to remove the Platformname. But square brackets are still...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    DELETE Button in Files App for multiple files

    Hello, In the Files application it is not possible to delete multiple files via Web UI. You have to click on the files individually and say "Delete". This is so tiring and not really nice with almost 200 files. Please add a "Delete" button next to...
    over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Assessment

    Email notification when an activity entry is moved from one activity to another

    We don't get a mail notification when an entry is moved to an other activity in a community. Reproducible scenario:USER A does the following:1) Create community1b) Add User B as member in Community2) Follow Community3) Create Activity AAA in the c...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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