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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    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

    Option to Export to Calendar all repeating events

    When "Export to Calendar (.ics)" option is used within a repeating event, it should include all the repeating events so that they can be imported to the user's calendar at one time. Customer would like there to be the option to import all repeatin...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Alter default community events view so that the calendar view appears by default for members of a single specific community.

    Instead of the default view being the events list, make the Calendar view to appear when switching to the events widget. It should be a community setting to select whether the list view or calendar view is the default.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Feature to remove specific nodes under "HCL Connections" in Windows Explorer

    According to https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connectors/enduser/r_files_prefs_and_policies_windows.html it is possible to configure the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins via registry entries and disable, for example Activities functionali...
    almost 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    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

    Connections 6.0 support for TDI/SDI 7.2

    TDI/SDI 7.2 should be added to Connections 6.0 future releases as TDI 7.1.1 has gone out of support.
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Possibility to save interesting update/event in Orient Me like on old homepage

    On the old homepage it was possible to save an interesting status update or any other event within the activity stream in order to read it later or to just bookmark it for further reference. As a user I want to have the same possibility in Orient Me.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    No spell checker available in Orient Me while writing a status update

    As a user I want to have a spell checker available while I write a status update in Orient Me. This could be for sure just the browser embedded spell checker.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Not possible to filter for components (forum, wiki, blog) in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to filter or narrow down the events/activities in Orient Me by component (forum, wiki, blog) so that it is more easier for me to find relevant content. Use case: I know somebody posted an interesting blog post recently,...
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    IBM Connections Plug-ins Installer for IBM Notes 10 on MAC

    At this time https://xspy.mybluemix.net/nx - support for Notes v10 for Windows clients only, customer requests IBM Connections Plug-ins for IBM Notes 10 for Mac Client.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Already Exists
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