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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    Change file format during upload on Connections. Upload pptx as PDF

    Hello, it would be great if the file format could be changed during the uploading process on Connections. Means, when I upload a document, I want to change the docx into PDF, so the document ist saved as PFD in Connections.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add more option for file sync issues - remove file from sync

    Nowadays there is usually only one action available for file sync issues, usually it is "try again". However this does not work for situations like changed file extension, access control or file visibility issues, file already exists etc. Is such ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Allow for Excell Macros to run in DOCS editor

    Currently Macros are not supported to be run or edited when working on an Excel spreadsheet in DOCS. The request is to allow for Macros already created in the spreadsheet to be able to run when in edit mode in DOCS
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Transfer ownership folders

    It is possible to transfer ownership of personal files. Why not the same option available for folders ? Of course including the files involved
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    DOCS edit: insert row into a table with merged cells in Presentation

    DOCS edit: insert row into a table with merged cells in Presentation (not working now, shown as grey in function-list)
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Have Language Selector preference in IBM Connections to be "honored" by IBM Docs.

    Would like to have the possibility, to control the language for IBM Docs the same way as the Connections, either directly (same language as selected in Connections) or manually by button. Connections has this option: Enabling users to set a langua...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to remove access to the Files component for each user.

    Administrator can remove access to the Files component for all user in organization.[Administrator - Connections]Remove access to the Files component for your organization But can not remove access to the Files for each users. Request to remove ac...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

    Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Use a reasonably up-to-date python version in the WebSphere app server

    I noticed strange behavior in my python scripts for wsadmin: It was not possible to assign boolean variables. A research showed that our stack uses an extremly old version of python: WebSphere\bin>wsadmin.bat -lang jython -username user -passwo...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Schedule House Keeping on IBM Docs

    Customer would like to have an option to schedule manually the HouseKeeping task startup on Viewer server Currently, the start time of HouseKeeping is set when the application is started. Thus means whenever the application was restarted, the time...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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