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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    Preview Files for Anonymous User

    If an organization has anonymous user (e.g. workers not having/using a computer and therefore not having an account/email) which occasionally need to check the news in Connections, they are unable to see (preview) the content of public files. Plea...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 No Plans to Implement

    Docs - when edit excel file, want the function of "filter by color of cell"

    In Excel, under "sort and filter", there is function of filter by color of cell. Customer hope IBM Docs has this function.
    about 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

    In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
    over 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Hope comments inside WORD document can be supported by Docs Viewer

    Tested on 2.0 CR3 ifix009.After uploading a word file to Files, got below error when viewing it:The file cannot be imported into Viewer. There is something in this file that Viewer does not support at this time. This file cannot be imported. Openi...
    almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Future Consideration

    Events and Activities integration to Callendar, across multiple groups

    Goal of this idea is to be able to view and manage person's Events and Activity tasks at one place, across different groups. - It would be very useful if Activity tasks with set date was added to the calendar the same way as Event. - Showing ent...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add a way to invite all Community Members during Event Creation

    When creating an HCL Community Event, There is a way to notify members, but you can only select at max 500 members at once. A workaround to email all community members is to either keep selecting 500 members batch by batch until all members have b...
    7 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Expiration Date for Wikis and Files

    We miss the function of setting an expiration date. That's very useful. Especially if a document or a wiki is out of date you will be notified by e-mail that you have to create a more recent version. Great NEED with us!
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 5 Assessment

    Docs Viewer - print function

    At the Moment users need to download a PDF before printing it. Docs.Viewer needs a print shortcut.
    about 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Allow community files to be shared across multiple community folders

    There is a documented limitation that indicates "you can put a community owned file in only one community folder." This is inconsistent with personal files which allow files to be shared with multiple folders. Allowing a community file to be share...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Windows Explorer Desktop PlugIn functions (not sync) for Mac

    For Windows the Explorer PlugIn is available. It allows to view the contents of the file repository and to download and upload files. An upload creates a new version and asks for a description of the changes . In Windows as well the synchronizatio...
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 6 Under Consideration
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