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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    Enable or Disable Change Tracking by REST API or a param

    As default, Change tracking is disabled, and it is enabled or disabled by Owner through UI only. But most of the time, When a user shared a file to his manager or others to edit ,He hope to enable Change tracking by a rest param , so he can flexib...
    almost 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Support IBM Installation Manager v 1.9. with Connections

    At this time still the old v1.8.5, packaged with the Connections installation is supported. Please test and support the newer IIM v1.9 asap.In ref to this IBM Technote- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installation-manager-and-packaging-utility-d...
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Better Photo Viewer in Connections App!!!

    The current photo viewer in the app is not good. You have to click each photo individually. This is awkward and about 100 photos in a folder is not up to date! You can still install a photo viewer in the app automatically when slid to the right or...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.

    Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    Quick Link to Folder in Forum Application

    At the moment it is only possible to create a Link to a Specific File not to the Folder from the Community. Pls add the possibility to "Add Folderlink". Workaround is at the moment. Go to the Folder, copy Link from the URL bar and add it manually ...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

    We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    Provide control of order of "menu items" in Community to Community Owner

    Connections Communities use a menu bar for the different apps within the most popular and modern approaches like highlights. The sort order of the items is given by the software package. There are good ideas why "Highlight" should become the first...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    Enhancement Request - Custom widget with similar functionality to TopNews widget

    In ICEC, the TopNews widget uses images and text from a blog post. i.e. similar to a top news story in a newspaper: Image + Headline + Text. When there is an image in a blog that is used by the TopNews widget this works fine. However, if the blog ...
    almost 8 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration

    Two Blogs in one Community

    Hello there, I was thinking it would be nice if one could feature two different blog streams within one community. Then one could name one "Status Updates", for example, and the other "News". Or is that already existent and I am just not aware of ...
    almost 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

    Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
    about 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists
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