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

    Additional Metrics Options

    To have additional metrics options to be able to pull from Connections Cloud such as number of people who have downloaded the pronounciation file, be able to look into who has accessed what or what people visit e.g xxxx community to look at trends...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 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

    Display announcement on all pages of the platform

    No description provided
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

    The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 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
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