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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    Integration with Microsoft Stream

    I would like to be able to conveniently embed videos uploaded in Microsoft Stream from the Connections Editor. My most common workflow is: I upload a video to MS Stream and then embed it in a Connections blog, wiki or forum. It would be very helpf...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Customer would like to have the ability to save Document Locale along with the spreadsheet

    Scenario: Customer is experiencing a problems with Date formats in IBM Connections Docs (spreadsheets) They use DD/MM/CCYY format by default in the UK. But when they're editing the spreadsheets in IBM Connections Docs they're forever having to set...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Date filter in Advanced Search

    When searching for historical information, it's necessary to leave out recent documents from the search results.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to copy/paste @mentions

    Right now all @mention resources need to be added separately (every time) for @mention to work. Copy/Paste of several @mention at once, is not recognized at something valid. Copy /paste of series of @mention should work at least in major browsers.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Unique visits counter

    Views counter is incremented every time i click refresh.Could be better if we had an additional counter to have the number of unique views.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Hashtags in Comments

    In responding to a blog entry, I frequently feel the need to use hashtags, for everyone else to have an easier search when communicating. The problem is, the hashtags in comments are not recognised as hashtags, and could not be searched and found ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Help button in the left navigation bar of Connections to open the topic of where the user is currently at

    Requesting OM to consider changing how the Help button found on the left navigation works on Connections 8. When the Help button is clicked it should open a pop-up information about the current application where the user is at.
    about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Improvement of Daily or weekly newsletter

    n the daily/weekly newsletter that I receive, there is no direct link to the comments that I see listed. I can go to the forum or topic, but not directly to that post. This makes it harder for me to engage with that specific post (like/comment).
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists
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