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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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 Wi...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Enhance error reporting when Common application fails to load a .jar file due to specific modules

There is nothing in the log file when Common decides it isn't going to load/process a .jar file. In this case, it didn't load the .jar at all, but we've had errors in the past where it didn't like something in the .jar such as referencing an undef...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

NNTP (native) support - Add to Connections

Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP is the native format used by the internet for News groups (aka Forums). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol for some details and information. The idea is that this would also b...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

Communities size is not big enough (50GB per community).

We have experienced that the capacity available for the communities created in IBM Verse is not enough for our needs (50GB per community). When we go over 50 Gigs we get the error "you have gone over your quota maximum of 51.180 MB"To workaround, ...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

Disable preview for xls (Excel) files

Currently Docs previews has some limitations. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 In order to workaround these issues, we would like to only download .xls files, instead of previewing it.
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

Docs Viewer to support Spreadsheets with shapes and text.

Currently shapes with text are not supported as per: IBM Connections Docs 2.0: Spreadsheets editor limitations http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 If files include shapes with text, when opening in IBM Docs, th...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Link to Wiki Page of other Community or native Wikis

"Link to Wiki Page" or "Link to Wiki Attachment" are very helpful. But its only available to Pages / Attachments of the same Wiki / same Community. From my point of view it would be helpful to enable this function to select Wiki Pages / Attachment...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Allow repeating To-Do items in Connections Cloud

Some people would like to have scheduled weekly or monthly To-Do items. Right now, they have to create a separate To-Do item for every Friday (for example) or the 15th of the month.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Performance improvements on .docx documents with large tables

When a Word (.docx) document has large tables with many rows and columns that cross pages performance slows down. Namely, when typing within the document there is a delay before the characters show up within the document.
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration
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