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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Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Surveys - display external Guest user with displayname/loginname and not email address

It should be possible to see the Displayname of the external user against the loginname or emailadresse in a survey answer.
almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

Mass for Community Membership and (extra) Following/Unfollowing actions

In case a person wants to leave or join several communities at once, this becomes a cumbersome process with many individual clicks. Especially in organizations which use many small (sub) communities this is a big pain.Please provide an option as p...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Can't toggle/save advanced code editor plugin changes

Another copy of an already reported bug, which the HCL support doesn't accept as bug: I enabled the advanced code editor plugin https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/advcode/ to have syntax highlighting in the editors html code and default fuctions ...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Allow SVG as graphic file in wiki when using insert/edit image button

The current function allows to upload an image file as attachment and automatically generate the image in the wiki page from the attachment: create wiki page use insert / edit image button choose attachment choose upload a new image and link to i...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

Request a function to see folder size

We request to add a function that users have the ability to determine size consumption of a folder on Files app and in Communities, There is "About this Folder" when a user opens a Folder and users expects folder size is listed there.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Display "shared with" information in files overviews

Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review

Insights about Community Followers

The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future 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 be a...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration
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