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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    Transfer of WIKIs

    Transfering WIKI-Pages from users HOME into a WIKI of a community is just possible with cut & paste for a 'normal' user. Why not 'right click' on the high-Level WIKI-Page and choosing 'COPY' ? Going into the WIKI of the community, 'right click...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    allow an integrated search covering all cnx originated and 3rd party attached content in a single (fulltext) search

    How to add to the seedlist of CNX cloud? Which search tech should we use to be prepared? Solr? Elasticsearch? How will the integration look like?
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to restore deleted wikis

    Users may accidentally deleted wikis that contain important information. Being able to restore wikis is an important administrative task -- many wikis contain important and/or historical data.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Needs Clarification

    Registration Link Invite - Expiration date

    The validity of the registration link of Invite should be customizable for the administrator in the selfregistration-config.xml.
    about 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Assessment

    A way to transfer the files from one community to another via WS-Admin

    As an administrator, I want to transfer files from one community to another. All files in one community should be transferred to another empty community. So that the other community can be deleted.
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Under Consideration

    TinyMCE: @Mentions be available in all applications including Rich content app

    Not all Connections apps support @Mentions in every editor context. Rich content and community description are examples. The provided functiobality should be consitent over all apps
    over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Docs Viewer to support Spreadsheets with shapes and text.

    Currently shapes with text are not supported as per: IBM Connections Docs 2.0: Spreadsheets editor limitations http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 If files include shapes with text, when opening in IBM Docs, the text i...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    No option to create scrollbar in text editor

    Right now, you can only create scrollbars in tables with HTML scripts that use the <textarea> tags. Not everyone knows how to use HTML scripting well. It would be helpful to add a user-friendly option in the table menu or during table creati...
    8 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Websphere V9 Support for Connections and Windows Server 2019 Support!

    I know that you won't want to do so much with Websphere in the future, but as long as Websphere is still supported, it would be great if Connections finally supports Websphere version 9!
    over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Under Consideration

    Upgrade the LibreOffice version that is used in Docs to a supported version

    There are customers that are regulated and are not allowed to use software which are already out of support or already reached the end of life. LibreOffice 7.2 is already out of support which is packaged in the Docs install package from HCL.
    over 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review
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