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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    filetypes for Docs Viewer - add OneNote (.one) support

    Please add OneNote support for Docs. Viewing these files would be helpful for most companys using OneNote.
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Actiance Vantage (connections compliance) should support Connections Surveys

    For companies with strict regulatory requirements regarding the interactions in/use of connections, like banks and such, all connections components they use should be covered by their compliance product(s). At the moment Actiance Vantage does not ...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Extend time-out while processing the profile information

    There is a timeout error displayed while users are updating their profile information in Connections. Access the profiles, edit it and try to add/ remove or change some information. If the changes weren't saved immediately, there pops out an error...
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Customer to have links open in new tabs

    The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review

    Need to set multiple format for the characters in one cell when editing an excel file online in Docs

    When edit an excel file on local via MS office, customer can set multiple format for the characters in one cell,e.g, different font size, colors, refer to the attachment of "Formats on local.png". In IBM Docs, when customer edit an excel file onl...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under 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

    The ability to chose the extension of an exported profile photo

    In Connections V8, if exporting Profiles photos by using dump_photos_to_files.sh , the exported photos are with ".dat" format, this can be only used to import to another Profile database. Need Connections to have the ability to export Profile phot...
    7 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    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

    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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