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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    The Desktop Plugin login page pops up when Microsoft Office Application is oppened, even though user don't have an intention to use plugin ATM

    When user opens one of Microsoft Office Applications the Desktop Plugin login page pops up even though user don't have an intention to use plugin ATM and does not have a session - so user must login, otherwise the login page keeps popping up. Woul...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Resizable editor for Activities

    Actually the editor in the Activites is small, and not resizable. Please make it resizable or even full-window or detachable.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    "Open menu in Microsoft Word application to include ""IBM Connections"" option"

    When opening Word, Excel, Powerpoint, you have to ability to Save as to IBM Connections ( see attachment). But you don't have IBM Connections available when Opening a file in Word, Excel, Etc. Is there a reason why it isn't available in this secti...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Customize the Tailored Experience

    Customer would like to have the ability to customize the Tailored Experience. (We need to change the font and CSS in the Create Community page for the application)
    over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Resize Images Thumbnails in Midea Gallery

    I´m creating wiht a cusomter a new startpage in HCEC and added to the page a media gallery widget. I tried to verify, checked and tested different thing to get the images bigger, but we couldn't get this done.
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Windows Desktop plugin file search option

    When using the desktop plugin integration from Windows File explorer and try to search for a file in Connections files you can only use this form of search sentence : PartOfFilename* and not *artOfFilename* to find files. When you use the search i...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Short Community links shall be editable

    In a Community-> Advanced Access Features you can provide a short name for short/ nice community link Unfortunately you can not edit this property if the community has subcommunities. This is a partially implemented/ not finished feature to m...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Support IBM Installation Manager v 1.9. with Connections

    At this time still the old v1.8.5, packaged with the Connections installation is supported. Please test and support the newer IIM v1.9 asap.In ref to this IBM Technote- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installation-manager-and-packaging-utility-d...
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    ICXT - PDF export of tables to handle Landscape format

    ICXT could only handle "Portrait" format, and no Landscape. This is because HCXT leverages open source tool wkhtmltopdf for PDF exporting. The wkhtmltopdf tool exports html content to portrait orientation by default. The idea for this new idea is ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Provide control of order of "menu items" in Community to Community Owner

    Connections Communities use a menu bar for the different apps within the most popular and modern approaches like highlights. The sort order of the items is given by the software package. There are good ideas why "Highlight" should become the first...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration
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