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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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Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

How does Connections decide if the Redis traffic should be sent directly or through the tunnel?

Right now Connections has no implementations, but there is an ongoing development to Provide a configuration option that will allow customers to run all component pack traffic through TLS Implement TLS Enforcement for Component Pack Integratio...
8 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

Blogs "Add a Comment" button to open automatically

Currently in the Connections Blogs application, to comment on a blog post, you have to click on "Add a Comment" button, which then opens the form "Comment on this Entry". Only then can users enter the text to comment on a post. Is there a HCL Conn...
about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Two Blogs in one Community

Hello there, I was thinking it would be nice if one could feature two different blog streams within one community. Then one could name one "Status Updates", for example, and the other "News". Or is that already existent and I am just not aware of ...
over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists

Wiki articles should be automatically arranged alphabetically

All child wiki articles should be arranged alphabetically automatically.
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

Who saw my blog in connections cloud ?

How can i know who has read my blog ? Customer would like to know who saw his/her blog in Connections Cloud. A report of the users would be a good information.
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

Search in Blog and Wiki combining tags and keywords

Currently it is not possible within a single wiki or blog to search with a combination of tags and keywords. (It is possible in Forums) You can just filter by tags but not do both Example search entries tagged with 'connext' containing the keyword...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review