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 O365 Teams updates should be visible in my activity stream within Connections

    As a user working with IBM Connections (Cloud or on-premise) and in a Microsoft O365 environment it would help staying focused within the Enterprise Social Network (Connections) if updates from MS Teams can be seen within the Activity Stream (Orie...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Microsoft file round tripping from Connections interface

    When a user finds an Office file from the Connections interface (either through files or communities) and then downloads that document from Connections and edits it in Office, he has to save it to his desktop and then "upload a new version". If th...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Already Exists

    Ability to cancel out of More selection on iOS

    If you click the "More" option on bottom right of iOS app, you can't undo the choice. You're forced to make a new selection. It would be better to be able to cancel out of the menu to go back to where you were. Otherwise, you lose context. Recomme...
    over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Needs Review

    Improved handling of community wiki search results on mobile

    This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. Search results should be presented in a more clear manner for community wiki results. Usability Issue 1 - Search result shows "Community Wiki" inste...
    over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Provide Docs templates to start with

    please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Extend Administrator access roles to trash content

    Currently, only the community owner/business owner is able to view the deleted community from their trash. Administrators are unable to view a deleted community and thus cannot restore the community themselves from the trash unless they too are ow...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

    Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Sametime Meetings and Docs Integration

    When you are editing a document on docs sometime you need to talk to other people. HCL Docs should have an action to start a meeting using Sametime Meetings, this away it's possible to connect the people to develop a document.
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Future Consideration

    Add a community(members) to a survey

    When a (leap) survey is created, you can add users to it. In the previous survey version in Connections 6.5, you created a survey in a community, so the members could use the survey. In the leap version, you have to add the users. Many users are a...
    10 months ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment
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