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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Change the Hyperlink in the Newsletter from /homepage to /social

In the newsletters "Daily Newsletter" and "Weekly Newsletter" the hyperlink at the bottom "Show all updates" shows to the Connections page https://<connections>/homepage. Why isn't the new much cooler site https://<connections>/social ...
over 3 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 No Plans to Implement

[ConnX MT] Need to have the ability to customize Metrics UI

Currently, Metrics UI can't be customized as its in written in hardcode. For example, if Connections deployed with features (such as Activities) disabled. It doesn't make sense if Metrics UI still display any column of Activities. Thus, it is need...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

ConNext Events Export list of attendees

It shall be possible to export in one click the email list of the people that clicked "I will attend" to a ConNext event or mailto them.
almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

I'd like the ability to share blogs with other communities.

When multiple business areas are affected by a change, I'd like the ability to post a blog and share it as a blog on the other impacted communities.
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future 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

Preview file rather than download file when clicking on file name in wiki

As a Connections user, I want a file to be shown in Connections rather than being downloaded when I click on file name in Wiki because the purpose of Connections is to collaborate on files rather than distributing them to client computers. When a ...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future 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

Allow formatting, tables, screenshots etc. in comments

As an IBM Connections user, I want to be able to use all formatting options that the editor provides for creating an entry in a Wiki/ Blog, Activity or wherever for commenting that entry as well because the current limitation to text-only comments...
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future 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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