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

    bsi guidlines, certification

    bsi guidlines, certification for Connections
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    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

    Add multi-client capability to Connections on-premise

    We are hosting Connections on-prem for our company and our customers. Today we have the choice to put all the customers on one Cnx infrastructure or to provide a own infrastructure per customer. Both solutions have a lot of disadvantages. So my id...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    It should be possible to vote for comments

    It should be possible to vote for comments. Especially in posts with lots of comments it would be nice to see the "hot" ones (e.g. youtube) or the possibility to filter for it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Add like possibility to comments

    Please add the possiblity to "like" a comment into the next release
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Change mail format of Connections Cloud Newsletter (mail digest)

    Is it possible to change the formatting of the email that we receive from Connections Cloud notifications? Decrease the font size, for example. When we get it, it looks like "polluted," and the real message ends up getting lost in the middle. I k...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add Like and Comment functionality to embedded experience.

    Today third party widgets can be added as embedded experience in the Activity Stream of IBM Connections. Today users can interact with the widget but can not like or comment within Connections about the shown data. Idea: Create a possibility to en...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Allow customizer to react on POST requests.

    Currently customizer just injects code on HTTP GET requests. At least there is at least the forum topic search where the page is presented after a POST request. Currently customizer does not modify this request and therefore not CSS customizations...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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