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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    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    The desktop plugin should allow a user to use save as directly into community files, not only into personal files

    Currently, you can only save into my drive, not into community files - if you use an app that is not covered with a connector like MS Office. So Connections (not the cloud drive) as an explorer node should appear in the save as dialog directly.
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Adding option to "Accept or Decline" a request to join a moderated community in Homepage Top Updates

    If a user requests to join a moderated community, the owner of the community can only accept or decline the request in Latest Updates. This option is also helpful if it is added to Homepage Top Update/Activity Stream.
    about 2 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to archive wikis

    Allow the ability to archive wikis. Once a wiki is not needed, it should be archived. However, if this wiki is needed again, it can be activated again so that the end user sees it. If you have a community for IT wikis, this feature would be more t...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

    Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
    almost 8 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

    Integrate Connections Files into Domino Leap Applications

    We do have some important Domino Leap applications for documentational purposes that contain "attachment fields". Currently this field type is just a regular upload/drop zone field where you can match 1 attachment to each field. If a new version o...
    8 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Connections Community Name Update Discrepancy

    When you update the community name through the Connections page, the changes do not automatically reflect in the Connections desktop plugin. This discrepancy can lead to confusion among users, as they may see different community names on different...
    over 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Changing of Font format style of @mention tags in Tiny Editor

    Currently, changing of font format style for @mention tags of users in CKEditor is possible but not in Tiny Editor. It would be good if changing of font format style (italic, bold, underline, font size, font style) for @mention tags in Tiny Editor...
    12 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Disabling the Left-Nav "Pinning" Behavior for Submenu Items

    When you click one of the links in “Important Links”, you’re brought to another external page. However, if you click back from any of those pages to return, the icon for that link remains in the left navigation. For example, if you click “Location...
    4 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Disabling the Left-Nav "Pinning" Behavior for Submenu Items

    hen you click “Important Links”, the sub-menu fades in to the right of the left navigation. However, when you click “More”, the sub-menu slides up from the bottom to the right side of the left navigation. The behavior where a clicked submenu item ...
    4 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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