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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    Connections search shall not be exact

    ConNext search shall support partial match — not requires to use wildcards. Moreover current wildcard search does not support special characters. (bug) .
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Like history limited to 25. Requesting the ability to override this limitation

    If more than 25 people like content in Connections (e.g. Status Updates, comments, Blog posts, files, wiki pages, forum topics and replies, etc.) only 25 people are shown in the list. Please remove the limit
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Connections App: Forum -> Show newest posts first

    In the browser, you can choose within a forum if you would like to see the oldest or the newest post first. We would love to have this option available on the mobile app as well.
    almost 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

    At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    new "Configure Connection Retention in the Trash Folder", like e-mail retention

    Currently In Connections Cloud, if a user deletes all the content to which they have access (an entire community, community or personal files, wikis, etc.), and then removes the trash, perhaps by mistake, perhaps because he was fired, or by any ot...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Support for multiple cloud accounts in Connections Sync for Mac

    I am a member of multiple organizations in Connections Cloud, but the mac sync plugin only allows me to connect to one of them. When i try to add a second one it tells me that i will need to remove the server connection to the first one first, whi...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    bsi guidlines, certification

    bsi guidlines, certification for Connections
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Custom Logo in the IBM Connections App

    Display your own logo when starting the app. It must be possible to define your own logo via mobil-config.xml.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration
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