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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    Viewing and editing of documents or powerpoint with charts

    Currently, Viewing and editing of charts remains a limitation in Docs 2.0.2. When you open to view or edit a PPT or documents that contains charts, it will not be displayed. It is only possible to display charts if this will be converted to images...
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugin - Suppress Sync Errors During Server Maintenance (Maintenance Mode)

    Idea: Implement a logic within the HCL Connections Desktop Plugin that detects when the server is in a designated "Maintenance State" (e.g. HTTP 503 or HTTP 540) and temporarily suppresses user-facing error pop-ups. User Story: From the Administra...
    4 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    User Selfregistration (invite) with calculated values for UID

    Please make it possible to allow for a calculated value for UID on self creation. For example UUID V4, or even better to allow to inject custom javascript so the customers own logic can be written. Is it possible to use calculated strings in the s...
    about 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment

    Make Desktop plugin to appear as a drive/location in Windows

    Please change the way desktop plugin is presented in Windows - make it available in all open/save dialogues so we can work with Connections files from any application. It should appear the same way as Dropbox, Box.com etc. For example, I need fre...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 4 Under Consideration

    Ability to apply default/template view to Desktop Plugin folder views in Windows

    Requesting the ability to apply folder template view to the way the Desktop Plugin displays folder contents in Windows.
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

    Pinning of community files and files shared with a community not possible

    2 Scenarios to upload a file: A user can upload a file into "My Files": * pinning is possible in the Files app (via "My Files", "Public Files", etc.). A user can share this file (uploaded into the "My Files") with a community ("Shared from Files")...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to share externally from files

    We would like the ability to share files added on Connections Cloud with external people and partners from their company. We deal a lot with external partners and it is a hassle to have to save the file locally from Connections Cloud and then atta...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 12 Needs Clarification

    Document version comparison

    Is there a way to easily view the changes between two different versions of the same document in the newest version of the document? We are looking for a tool that compare vision against each other Other than: It seems that the only way to tell wh...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase the file size limits in IBM Docs

    Currrently the viewers are limited. Allow the preview of presentation files that have more than 150 slides
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Under Consideration

    Enable support for more content types by default

    Allow Docs to preview/edit more types of files by default - plain txt files, Unicode files, RTF, source code for java, JavaScript, generic binary files etc.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 12 Under Consideration
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