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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    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

    Custom Logo in the IBM Connections App

    Display your own logo when starting the app. It must be possible to define your own logo via mobil-config.xml.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

    Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

    Customer would like to have the ability to save Document Locale along with the spreadsheet

    Scenario: Customer is experiencing a problems with Date formats in IBM Connections Docs (spreadsheets) They use DD/MM/CCYY format by default in the UK. But when they're editing the spreadsheets in IBM Connections Docs they're forever having to set...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    The About section in the mobile does not currently support editing on the mobile device.

    Edit profile not allowing user to update “About” section. The sections below look editable, but are not editable. Also, would like for same fields available on Mobile app where we see it on WEb UI while editing profile: Job title FaxDept n...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    How to control the file sharing by Administrator

    We want to control the file sharing. Is there such a feature? Currently, each user needs to confirm "Allow others to share these files" every files. (Default: Not check the box) Also, each user needs to confirm "Sharing Options-Allow others to sha...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to administer trash throughout Connections - Community; Wiki; etc.

    Create an administrative tool built to manage trash across Connections. Specifically they would like to be able to view:- What's in the trash- How old it is- Delete / restore
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Upload documents from mobile to community

    When uploading documents or pictures from mobile to Cloud, yu can't upload to a community, only to my files. it is nearly impossible to get the document into the right community, without a lot of "hacking".
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 6 Under Consideration
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