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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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"Link to files" hangs with large amount of files in library

Since IBM Connections 5.5, the implementation of the "Link to files" dialogue around files pagination has changed compared to previous release. When you open "Link to files" for linking files into Activities, Wikis, Blogs etc, the dialogue uses se...
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

Ability to configure default view in Connections Desktop Plug-in

When going to My files in the Connectons desktop plugin, we default to the Tiles view. You can change to the list, details, content etc. views. However, this is not presevered ... so you have to change the view everytime. In Windows Explorer, yo...
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Windows Explorer Desktop PlugIn functions (not sync) for Mac

For Windows the Explorer PlugIn is available. It allows to view the contents of the file repository and to download and upload files. An upload creates a new version and asks for a description of the changes . In Windows as well the synchronizatio...
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 6 Under Consideration

Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

Need the zoom feature for editing spreadsheet files.

When editing word or presentation files in Docs, there is a Zoom icon(see image attached) which we can use to zoom the file's view size. But for spreadsheet files, this zoom icon is not available. Currently, end users can only use browser's zoom f...
almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

Report with all of our Organization users details from IBM Cloud.

We would like to have a report with all of our Organization users details like (first name, Last name, email, employee id, manager name, cost center, location, subscription, account activation date, subscription expiry date e.t.c.,). We need this ...
almost 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

Extend/deactivate Auto-Completition-Period of Activities in Connections Cloud

Activities within Connections Cloud are automatically marked as complete by the Activities Administrator after the default Auto-Completion-Period of 90 days. Whilst it is possible to modify this value on prem, there is no current possibility to ed...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Editor(s) - Convert pasted Notes-Links into real Notes-Links (Notes://)

In case you past a valid Notes Link (document, view, application, anchor) into the editor in IBM Connections the result looks like this (example is a view link, al private date is replaced by "x"): xxxx xxxxxxxxxx <NDL> <REPLICA xxxxxxx...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Create one single repository for all files & attachments so behavior is uniform across all elements of IBM Connections

Currently personal files, community files, (if available) CCM files, blog attachments, forum attachments, wiki attachments and activity attachments are all stored in individual and separate file repositories with their own limits, behaviors and op...
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement