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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Ideas

    Advanced search in the global search bar

    Requesting a design change with how the Advanced search option is not in the global search bar. Although this is working as design, the documentation may be a bit misleading. Currently, the advanced search bar does not display in the initial searc...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Using IBM Docs as a previewer for community files in wiki pages iframes

    We want to publish previews on documents from the files library in some guideline-style wiki pages. Therefore we used the ibm docs preview URL as an iframe src URL in a wiki page. This works fine. Now we encounter additional feature request from o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Default font & size for orgs in IBM Docs.

    Set default fonts while creating a doc or editing a doc. At the moment the default font for IBM Docs is showing as " Arial " size "10"
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Use Bookmarks to create shorten links

    Bookmarks is a great feature, but it needs to be extend. The possibility to create Shorten Links with bookmarks can bring a create feature to connections. Those links could be accessed internally or externally. Add some statistics can help users t...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Share Connections Content in Teams

    It should be possible to better share content from CNX in Teams Below I share the comment we received from HCL on this idea. Now if you do have an app (and we do of course as long as the user has deployed it), then the app gets a signal to display...
    about 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Accepting button for Network contact invitations

    When a User receive a request to become a Network contact in Connections. The only possibility is, to open the profile directly or from the Notification Bell, and select "Accept invitation". It would be good to have a direct button option in the N...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    TinyMCE to consider Active Content Filtering rules by Connections

    Connections allows to customize Active Content Filter rules. By this, customers are able to adapt blacklist or whitelist to their needs. - Whitelist: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/secure/sec_acf_whitelist_intro.html - Blackl...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    ICXT - Enhance manage wikis UI to restrict visibility of private wikis

    ICXT shows the wrong visibility for stand-alone wikis. For stand-alone wikis:If you set the wiki rights as:Read: Wiki members onlyEdit: Wiki editors and owners only In ICXT--> Manage --> Wikiit will show the field "Visibility" as "Public for...
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Fix CNAME violation of DNS specification

    Multiple friends and colleges can't reach the idea lab, because you CNAME record violates the DNS specifications: $ dig connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.4-Ubuntu <<>> connections-ideas.hcltechsw....
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

    Add support for dark mode in Teams integration

    The whole Connections integration in Teams is only usable when working with Teams set to default colors. If using the dark mode, many Connections dialogues, (like choosing a Community, choosing a file, etc.) are barely readable. Of course, it woul...
    almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration
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