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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    List of second-degree contacts

    I noticed the "Do you know" box on the left hand side of the "my network" page. wouldn't it be nice to have a full list of second-degree contacts (i.e. contacts of your contacts) to promote the networking idea of the Connections Environment? (actu...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Auto focus cursor in profile tag form when adding tags to profile

    While tagging a person's profile, one needs to click into the field after each added tag to be able to add another tag. That is really annoying, isn't it? I assume this can be changed really simple with some adjusted javascript code, so each time ...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    IBM Connections Desktopplugin add publishing for myDrive/ offline files

    When working with files in Connections with the Windows Desktopplugin you have a function to publish a new version within Powerpoint, Excel or Word.This does work from personal-, shared- and communityfiles. Now you can also sync your personal file...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Configuration so that Profiles Business Card Header and Footer are Initially Collapsed

    We would like to be able to configure the header and footer in Profiles business cards so that, initially, they're collapsed and can be expanded by clicking on the double arrows pointing up and down respectively. Specifically, we would like Profil...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections 5.5 Notes Plugin move attachment community dialogue

    Users complain about the Notes client connections plugin that every move a an attachment to the Connections 5.5 Notes client plugin's "Files" they have to open and fill in the dialogue concerning the communities/persons. This is very annoying if t...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Can status updates have the ability to add tags?

    Tagging status updates makes the content in them more searchable, particularly withing a community, where status updates are used as the messaging tool for the whole site.
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Already Exists

    Disable preview for xls (Excel) files

    Currently Docs previews has some limitations. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 In order to workaround these issues, we would like to only download .xls files, instead of previewing it.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to paste a reference to the number of the paragraph

    We are working with lawyers who need a solution to create, approve and publish normative acts. The feature they need is a support to paste within the text of the document a reference to the number of other paragraph (eg. [...] and in such case we ...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Refuse the use of the plugin for parts of the user base

    Due to strict data security requirements from the authorities, we have a need to refuse the use of plug-in from the internet without two factor authentication.My idea is to be able to set up a dedicated web server that only gives access to Connect...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    File Preview does not show Word documents created with eforms correctly

    Can we somehow fix this from our side or is this an issue with the way eforms renders the Word documents? The logo is displaced.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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