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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    Handle confidentiality for sharing files via link from closed community

    With CR4 sharing a file via link has been introduced. While this is a great way of sharing files from communities as well as the Files application, this feature can become an issue once a file is shared from a closed community. Sharing a file via ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Sort Date DD.MM.YYYY Custom Filter in Docs

    Its not possible to sort with a custom filter on spreadsheets "is greater than" or "is less than" with dates (DD.MM.YYYY).
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Synchronize data's between OnPrem Domino Directory and Connections Cloud Profile in both directions

    Customer wants to have the option to sync information from a Connections Cloud Profiles business card back to their OnPrem directory.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Enable or Disable Change Tracking by REST API or a param

    As default, Change tracking is disabled, and it is enabled or disabled by Owner through UI only. But most of the time, When a user shared a file to his manager or others to edit ,He hope to enable Change tracking by a rest param , so he can flexib...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

    We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

    Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists

    Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

    Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

    Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

    It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

    Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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