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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    Allow documents to be checked in automatically

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically. Allow a config setting to disable the pop-up after editing documents in office and check them in automatically instead of asking to check in the document
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Ability to disable More menu or custom submenu item from displaying on main level

    The "More" menu in the lefthand navigation pane contains the apps that do not display at the main level. After clicking an option on the "More" menu, the selection will display at the top level until a different "More" selection gets clicked. Simi...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Allow advanced image propertys like borders, css and similar in TinyMCE

    The old CKEditor wasn't really awesome as TinyMCE, but it has a few features that were missing in the new one. We miss the ability of right clicking on a image and add certain propertys like adding a border, apply custom css and similar ones. Tiny...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Offer @ mentions function in all applications

    When trying to mention another user in ex. Rich Content app on the community page this is not possible. Users would like to have this option in all aplications since it will help with consistency.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Desktop Plugin under Windows Terminalservices /Citrix

    This useful feature needs support for the Windows Terminalservice/Citrix Envirnoment. The Windows/Citrix environment is the strategy of the IT vendor of saving banks in germany. Without this feature the files application is not practicably usable....
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 No Plans to Implement

    Customer request "Paste Options" feature when editing Excel files

    In office, when you edit excel files, and copy/paste a grid with formula(see image1 as an example). You can choose paste options->paste special to select which content you want to paste: formula or value(See image2, image3). This feature is not...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Allow Touchpoint to be customized the default Connections way

    To customize Touchpoint, files need to be changed directly in touchpoint.war directory on each node. This is not be the way to go, as Touchpoint now (as of Connections 6.5) is part of the default deployment. And customizations there probably get o...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

    The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Translations Software Support for IBM Connections App

    Currently there are translation software that can be integrated into IBM Connections. Unfortunately, the translation software does not work in the app. For this it would be good if you provide the interface to it. A interface to Reverso Translat...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make answers and comments easier to identify in blog posts (iOS App) -> Reply to Comment

    In the mobile view, in the comment column of a blog post, it is not at all possible to tell which comment is the answer to another comment. Please mark clearly better. Similar to the web view. In the web view you can clearly see which answer belon...
    about 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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