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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    Allow "Track changes" also for. xlsx files

    IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on xls files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Excel files.
    about 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Requesting additional functionality for File Sync within Connections Desktop Plugin

    We are requesting the following improvements be made to File Sync when using the Connections Desktop Plugin: Ability to sync files that belong to a community, not an individual (this already works in the mobile app, and is part of the reason for t...
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 5 Under Consideration

    Develop Integration with other Collaboration Platforms (O365, G-suite)

    Connections is social enterprise software, and it does that well. Connections is enterprise collaboration software, and it does that well. Connections is not so good at personal/small team collaboration, where O365 and G-suite excel....and have th...
    about 8 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 3 Under Consideration

    Keep the Order/Position of Widgets Inside of Highlights Application When Creating a new Community by a Copy of Existing Community

    Current Behaviour: When a new community is created by copying an existing community (via "Community Actions" --> "Copy Community"), the order and position of the widgets within the Highlights application are not retained. Proposed Improvement: ...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Make the navigation header for 7.0 works for 8.0

    We are aware that with the new update 8.0, most of the navigation elements have been moved to the side. We are currently searching for solutions to either customize the navigation menu or have the option of using a custom navigation header, simila...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Toggle for "Render-on-Demand" Previews in Collabora

    Looking for a way to disable the automatic generation of file previews upon upload to optimize storage space on the NFS share and prevent processing overhead for files that are primarily uploaded for archiving and may never be viewed. Currently, H...
    4 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Needs Review

    Desktop Plug-in file locked status is displayed incorrectly

    When user closes a file that has been locked, the status of the file in desktop plugin windows explorer remains locked even if the file has been unlocked. Users need to refresh the windows explorer to change the state of the file. It would be help...
    10 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Drag and Drop from Connections Plugin for Windows Explorer to IBM Verse or Others

    Today is not possible to drag and drop a file or folder from Connections Plugin for Windows Explorer (Not my drive) to an email for example in IBM Verse. It is mandatory to add the file in my drive before a drag and drop. It is not user friendly.
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Already Exists

    A way to display users who were assigned with they specifc Files policy

    Need a way(An API or a command) to dislay users who were assigned with the specific Files policy.
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Add social media widgets

    To add the social media channels our customers are using a third party tool like elfsight or others. Our customers are complaining about that the competing products like sharepoint have an option (widget) where social media channels can be configu...
    about 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review
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