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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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Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

If no profile picture exists, then profile picture with abbreviation of first and last name.

If people don't upload a picture there is only the one default profil icon - even not gender neutral. Would be nice to show the profile ficture with abbreviation of first and last name. This is common way - e.g. MS Teams, Outlook etc.
about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

Need Navigation Panel function in Docs document

If a Word document is with many pages inside it, Navigation Panel will help end user to quick locate the specific section. End user from Lenovo box claims this function for several times. Customer needs Docs to have the same feature MS Word has.
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Under Consideration

Ensure that all Connections Docs formatting functions are compatible with CTRL+C and CTRL+V copy and paste functions

Please create an enhancement request to ensure that all Connections, Spreadsheet and Presentation formatting functions, including the ones listed below, are compatible with CTRL+C and CTRL+V copy and paste functions: There are many types of format...
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Have a Kanban view of Activities

Original idea by Torben Olsen in the IBM internal blog. Following is copied from that entry: I would very much appreciate to have the option to activate a Visual Team Kanban Board app within a community. An app like this would make our global team...
about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Already Exists

Support for Chrome extension

There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open to...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Dead Links shown in Different Color (Red)

A very useful feature in MediaWiki and other Wiki servers is that it shows Dead Links in Red, when the page is shown. Here is an example: All of the "good" links shown as their normal Blue color, a user that clicks on them will go to the Wiki ...
about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

HTML5 Directory Upload for Connections in Browser

Current state:Currently, using the browser interface users can only upload individual files to Connections. Users are able to select multiple files for upload, but not a whole directory or multiple subdirectories for upload. Enable uploading of Di...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Automatically remove inactive members of the community.

When a member remove from LDAP, the member remain in community as inactive. Currently, here are some ways to remove a user from the community. 1. Community administrator need to remove each inactive user from community UI. or 2. It needs to remove...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration