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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    Increase the file size limits in IBM Docs

    Currrently the viewers are limited. Allow the preview of presentation files that have more than 150 slides
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Under Consideration

    Enable support for more content types by default

    Allow Docs to preview/edit more types of files by default - plain txt files, Unicode files, RTF, source code for java, JavaScript, generic binary files etc.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 12 Under Consideration

    Enable Desktop Plugin for External Users

    The Desktop / Office Plugin is a very important and helpful tool for adoption. Some customers want to use it for external users too.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 5 Under Consideration

    Connections support for Windows Server 2025

    We have existing Connections customers here in Germany who are planning to migrate to release 8 now. They are running Connections on Windows. Due to their policy they need to use the current Windows Server release 2025 for all new applications. I ...
    5 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Make the navigation header for 7.0 works for 8.0

    We are aware that with the new update 8.0, most of the navigation elements have been moved to the side. We are currently searching for solutions to either customize the navigation menu or have the option of using a custom navigation header, simila...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    @Mentions for external Users

    Based on documentation what external users can do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/user/eucommon/c_eucommon_ext_user.html and what external users cannot do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_5.5...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

    Improvement in Comments

    Inside all tools there is the possibility to add comments (Wiki, Blog, Files, etc). The problem, in each tool there are different features. I believe IBM needs to create an unique framework/tool for comments, and connect all tools inside this fram...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Allow "Track changes" also for. xlsx files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on xls files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Excel files.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Requesting additional functionality for File Sync within Connections Desktop Plugin

    We are requesting the following improvements be made to File Sync when using the Connections Desktop Plugin: Ability to sync files that belong to a community, not an individual (this already works in the mobile app, and is part of the reason for t...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 5 Under Consideration

    Services Status Page for Monitoring

    This idea suggests to introduce a HTTP status page for all Connections services. This status page will enhance and simplify service monitoring and load balancing on the infrastructure level. If Connections is configured for Federated Authenticatio...
    about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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