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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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Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 4 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

Save the last setting on sorting files

User can sort the files to be listed by Name, Updated, Views, Comments and Likes but it does not keep the settings. This setting should be kept so the user don´t need to change it everytime.
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

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...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

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.
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Integration of a real photo viewer and video streaming player! (HCL Connections App)

We use Connections not only as a collaboration platform but also as an intranet platform with ICEC. Our users like Connections but there are two functions that are clearly missing in the HCL Connections app. :) First: A REAL Photoviewer. In order ...
about 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Share a file with expiry date.

Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

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.
almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 3 Under Consideration

UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
9 months ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review