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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    Request to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return

    Customer would like to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return. Currently, the way how we handle the invisible soft return causes the text position there wrong.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Make it possible to place the Survey app in the (home screen) Community on mobile

    We use the survey to get response on the quality of our community and the use of Connections. To enable this we put the survey on the homepage of our community (‘s). This works for the desktop version of Connections but in the mobile app users don...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 5 Under Consideration

    Add file to different folders within community

    We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

    So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Connections App: Forum -> Show newest posts first

    In the browser, you can choose within a forum if you would like to see the oldest or the newest post first. We would love to have this option available on the mobile app as well.
    almost 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

    At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    new "Configure Connection Retention in the Trash Folder", like e-mail retention

    Currently In Connections Cloud, if a user deletes all the content to which they have access (an entire community, community or personal files, wikis, etc.), and then removes the trash, perhaps by mistake, perhaps because he was fired, or by any ot...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

    Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

    Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    bsi guidlines, certification

    bsi guidlines, certification for Connections
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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