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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    Enable or Disable Change Tracking by REST API or a param

    As default, Change tracking is disabled, and it is enabled or disabled by Owner through UI only. But most of the time, When a user shared a file to his manager or others to edit ,He hope to enable Change tracking by a rest param , so he can flexib...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    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

    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

    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

    Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

    Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Improve the copy process with ICXT

    ICXT is not consistent with how it copies content: Blog: If I copy a blog post from one community to another then ICXT wants to move the profile of the owner of the post too. This is needed to make sure the owner is the same in the new community. ...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Support for folder structures in IBM Notes/Connections "Files" sidebar plug-in

    In IBM Notes, there is a Connections integration. In the Notes client, there is a sidebar plug-in for Connections "Files". The files that are being synced is just a flat list of files. We would like to get support for folder structures in the "Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Already Exists

    Ability to configure default view in Connections Desktop Plug-in

    When going to My files in the Connectons desktop plugin, we default to the Tiles view. You can change to the list, details, content etc. views. However, this is not presevered ... so you have to change the view everytime. In Windows Explorer, you ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Support for OpenSearch as AWS native Service in HCL Connections

    Seeking support for using Elasticsearch / Opensearch Service of AWS when using Component Pack on an otherwise on-premises deployemnt.
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Review

    Provide Docs templates to start with

    please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement
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