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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Hide CSV option on invite guest if the user doesn't have the appropriate role

Users get a popup when they click on invite guest and can select "invite" and "import csv". When they try to import csv, they can select a csv file and send invitation but this is not possible and an error occurs. Only Administrators are allowed t...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

Ability to see all folders in the Connections UI folders view display (left side panel)

When using the IBM Connections Web UI folders view display on the left side, (see screenshot) only limited with only 100 folders shown, there is no function to extend this view. The customer would like to be able to show/see all folders.
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Like option consistency in mobile

Add like options in mobile everywhere where it is possible in the browser! For example you can't like wiki pages or comments in mobile app (Android)
almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Recognize Apostrophes When URLs Are Pasted in an Activity Stream Entry

When you copy and paste a URL that has an apostrophe into a status update, for example https://www.example.com/jdoe's_example_url everything after the apostrophe is plain text instead of part of the link. This breaks the URL. In the future, we wou...
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Prevent syncing / download of 'restricted community' content

We need to tighten the security on some specific communities that contain classified documents.Members should not be able to download or sync documents / files to any local storage outside the Connections app storage. Existing options (AllowExport...
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Use proper h1 heading for blog entrys instead of h4

The titles in the blog app (https://<connections-hostname>/blogs/) uses a h4 heading, as you can see here: <td class="lotusFirstCell entryContentContainerTD blogsWrapText"><a name="xyz" id="xyz"></a> <h4> <a id="e...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Docs Editor for spreadsheet: Can Docs use formula to import data from another file.

We have two xlsx files: 1.xlsx and 2.xlsx. In office, we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx. Pls see attached file: image1 shows content of 1.xlsx, while image2 shows how we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx....
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Docs.Viewer - support for hyperlinks to headings inside PDFs

At the moment only links to headings inside a word document are working. If you convert this document into a PDF you can not use these links anymore.
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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