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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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Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Teaser image of a blog in Connections mobile app

Right now you are able to open a list of Blogs (e.g. Community Blogs). If there are images posted in a blog, you have to first open this blog to be able to see them. (there are already descriptions in the overview for the title and the first few...
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

Desktoplugin allow cut and paste into Connections

Windows allows us to cut and paste files from folder A to folder B. When trying to cut and paste files into connections via the desktopplugin the files are only copied.It would be useful when the plugin allows the cut and paste, removing the origi...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

Custom Page for User

A self-assembled page. Our users would like a page that you can put together yourself. A page like Orient.Me only better configurable according to user's request with widgets. It would be best if the administrator could define the widgets that the...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration

Increase guest invitation deadline

External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
about 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Replace status updates with sametime chat

Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Remove the [ ] in "Platformname"

Customer followed this official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/customize/t_customize_new_template.html it is mentioned, that it's prossible to remove the Platformname. But square brackets are still...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration