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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    Ability to attach multiple files at once when replying to Forums

    Currently there is only an option to attach one file at a time while replying on forum topics.The user is forced either zip the files and attached the zip itself or attach/download one file at a time. A zip file cannot be used in searches & fo...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 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

    Find all my own comments via filtering in connections

    If a user has marked e.g. a blog-content by adding a comment (and e.g. forwarding this to collegues of own department), it is not possible to find all own comments by setting such a filter. Only if one follows the relevant community
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Add Ephox Textbox.io to the cloud as a rich text editor option

    Customers have requested the ability to switch the default rich text editor for Connections Cloud.A lot of our users need the functionality to copy/paste or drag/drop files and images into the rich text editor window for blogs, wiki's, forums, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Dogear: Support retrieval of favicon through Proxy-Server w/o having set reader role to Everyone

    As of Connections 6.0 CR2 it is not possible to retrieve favicons in Dogear through a configured Proxy Server without having the need to set the Dogear reader role to Everyone. Doing so result ins Dogear being accessible for even anonymous users, ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Support Responsive images

    ConNext does not seem to support responsive images with attributes max-width=95%; height:auto; See https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_responsive.asp It would be great to have this supported for not having to bother about image width.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    IBM Editor Hotkey to switch to HTML Source

    I would much appreciate if the IBM ConnectionsEditor were providing an Hotkey to switch to the HTML Source view like the textbox.io with Ctrl+Shift+U.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Clarification
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