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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    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to review and change memberships for all communities which I own

    At the very moment I can access the communities I am an owner of. Still I have no to sort/filter these by other owners, members As well I would like to identify these having issues with the memberships (see here) or the add and remove access for m...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow right mouse click 'Open Link in new tab' in IE for Communitys on 'My Communitys' site of CR4

    We like to open Communitys with right hand click on a new tab of the Internet Explorer.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Change the Hyperlink in the Newsletter from /homepage to /social

    In the newsletters "Daily Newsletter" and "Weekly Newsletter" the hyperlink at the bottom "Show all updates" shows to the Connections page https://<connections>/homepage. Why isn't the new much cooler site https://<connections>/social ...
    about 4 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 No Plans to Implement

    Improve IBM Connections Suverys to be able to compete with your Competitors

    Surveys is a nice app but lacks functionality for professional use. Add more question types like "Matrix of Drop-down Menus" where a table can be displayed where use can select cells. See google forms, Microsoft forms, survey monkey and other surv...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Open files directly in specific applications from within the browser

    If users are receiving file links, the files get previewed within the browser. If they then want to edit the file directly in the specific application and not in the online editor the file needs to be downloaded, saved in an intermediate place and...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Make community logo resize value (155x155) configurable

    When a community logo is uploaded, connections automatically resizes the image to 155x155. Currently this value can't be changed. A customer has changed the width of left column in the communities pages, so they can better fit some custom widgets....
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Changing community security level

    If a community is setup initially to only allow internal access this cannot be changed later to allow external users access. A new community must then be created for external users.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Provide RSS/ATOM Feed links for Orient-me Pages

    The system does not provide RSS/ATOM feed links at the bottom of the page for any page of Orient Me. This function is not available in general.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    UX of URL preview in AS misleading, make the title more "Link-like"

    The UX of the URL preview that is shown in the Activity Stream is misleading if somebody posts a link to a webpage. At the moment it shows the title in black which needs to be clicked in order to visit the linked page. But right below the host (e....
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration
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