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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    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Word document adds extra column upon download in Docs

    When downloading a Word document that has been edited in Docs, the document table will contain an additional column on the right end side of the table. Steps to reproduce the issue:1) Create a file from MS Word (2016 or the latest version) at the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Table distorted on delete row operation when columns do not align in Docs

    When a table in an MS word document (2016 or latest version) has rows with merged cells across the table, the column width of the complete table gets unaligned/distorted if any row gets deleted. The document collapses, no undo is available so the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Sync_all_dns by LDAP Group

    An organization has a large number of LDAP profiles, which causes sync_all_dns to take an extended period to run. However, only a subset of users in one LDAP group use Connections. Sync_all_dns would be much more efficient if it could be run again...
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

    Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    What is the roadmap for IBM Docs

    I know that I have ask this in relation to Pink roadmap, but I wanted to elaborate more detail just for IBM Docs. Can the number of server be reduced ? Having 3 - 4 servers just for collaborative editing does not make sense for some customer that...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Have a lite client app for Docs

    Client app was somehow convinent than Web Edition online. You can refer "一起写" of China market.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Single copy storage in connection Files

    When end user upload a file to Files, the system should be able to identify if this file existed in Files already. If yes, just add a link, no need to upload it again. It will save much network bandwidth and server storage.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase the (file-)size limits of the spreadsheet viewer/editor

    At this moment the viewer is limited tot 30.000 rows and/or 1 million cells. At this moment we often have to publish documents that af (far) over this size and that can be viewed/edited without any problem in other regular viewers/editors. We like...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Need Docs spreadsheet to support individual filter view

    when there are several co-editors are working on one same spreadsheet. now one of them filters the data by a column, that filter is immediately applied for the other users as well. We'd like Data you apply with filter does not affect what others w...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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