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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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Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File -...
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Fix menu bars when scrolling

Dear Team, one problem in the community is, that the menu bar on top and on the left of the page are not fixed upon scrolling. So I simply loose the option to navigate once I have reached lower parts of a page. This is highly annoying since most m...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with textbox.io

Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the textbox.io editor. If you edit a wiki page and click on + icon the "Bookmark" button is not available but exists in blogs, forums, etc. Our users request it. The users need the functionality ...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

MS O365 Teams updates should be visible in my activity stream within Connections

As a user working with IBM Connections (Cloud or on-premise) and in a Microsoft O365 environment it would help staying focused within the Enterprise Social Network (Connections) if updates from MS Teams can be seen within the Activity Stream (Orie...
over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

CentOS Support

Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists

Missing Activities - ToDo List on Mobile App.

One of the most used applications in our company has been activities. Especially important is the "TO DO LIST" view with "Assigned to Me" and "Created by Me".This representation is painfully missed in the Connections App and causes dissatisfaction...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Hierarchical Display of Communities and Sub-Communities in Desktop Plugins

In Windows Explorer, communities and sub-communities are displayed at the same level and with the same icon. To find the right way around it would be very helpful to have a hierarchical view of communities and sub-communities in the Windows Deskto...
about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Approval Process for Wiki's

Idea behind use the Wikipedia as a knowledge management system. This is a very important task which would us help to bring our internal guide lines into a Wikipedia in ConNext. So different editors can work on the improvement of our knowledge and ...
about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration