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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    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Notify the community owner when member add/leave the community.

    Function request to send notification to the community owner when the member add/leave the community.Community owner would like to know the change of community member.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Word document adds extra column upon download in Docs

    When downloading a Word document that has been edited in Docs, the document table will contain an additional column on the right end side of the table. Steps to reproduce the issue:1) Create a file from MS Word (2016 or the latest version) at the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Table distorted on delete row operation when columns do not align in Docs

    When a table in an MS word document (2016 or latest version) has rows with merged cells across the table, the column width of the complete table gets unaligned/distorted if any row gets deleted. The document collapses, no undo is available so the ...
    over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Extend mobile navigation

    When I search in Connections mobile and get e.g. a wiki page as a result, it would be great to get a navigation option to the wiki overview. Reproduce Search something in mobile, click the wiki page. You get Title Wiki Name Pagetext The wiki n...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    What is the roadmap for IBM Docs

    I know that I have ask this in relation to Pink roadmap, but I wanted to elaborate more detail just for IBM Docs. Can the number of server be reduced ? Having 3 - 4 servers just for collaborative editing does not make sense for some customer that...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Editing multi-day events in Communities

    Create an event in the community events widget and make it a multi day event, then save. Edit the entry and choose to edit the series. The fields to choose which days to repeat cannot be changed, those are greyed out.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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