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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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Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Desktoplugin allow cut and paste into Connections

Windows allows us to cut and paste files from folder A to folder B. When trying to cut and paste files into connections via the desktopplugin the files are only copied.It would be useful when the plugin allows the cut and paste, removing the origi...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

"Create Peer" and "Create Child" wiki option is buried deep inside Mobile app options, it should be shown directly on wiki section

Currently when we click on wiki and click on 3 dots option on top right corner of the mobile screen ( on IOS ) we will see one of the option as "Add"clicking on it then it will take you to further to see "create Peer" "create Child" If we can brin...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

Add more Emojis to the Palette

Please integrate more Emojis or give the admins the possibility to extend the Emojis palette.
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Make Community Surveys Searchable

I'm requesting that in a future release community surveys are indexed and searchable.
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Enable deep link banner on Android platform along with non-native web browsers

Currently, when a user attempts to access a Connections URL in an iOS device when IBM Connections Mobile app is not installed, a banner recommending user to download the app from the App Store to download Connections Mobile appears. Note, this i...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

Apache Server as the Web Server

Customer would like Apache server to be be supported with HCL Connections. Currently only IBM IHS is officially supported.
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

RTE option "Link to Files" not available in standalone activity

If you go to a ‘’stand alone’’ activity (edited) there is no ‘’link to connections files’' option. 1. Create a standalone activity 2. Inside the standalone activity, add an entry or todo 3. In the description field, the rich text editor provide...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement

Alarms from Connections events in Notes calendar

For the integrations from Connections for Notes where you can add community calendars, is it possible that these would trigger alarms, or could be set up that way int he same way regular calendar events can be set up in Notes preferences to create...
almost 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

color flag blog posts based on topic category

​to be able to select a category for a blog post. based on the category selected the title of the blog post to show up in a specific color + a flag in order to easily see which blog posts belong to a particular category. also to be able to select ...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement