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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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Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Websphere V9 Support for Connections and Windows Server 2019 Support!

I know that you won't want to do so much with Websphere in the future, but as long as Websphere is still supported, it would be great if Connections finally supports Websphere version 9!
over 4 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Under Consideration

The Desktop Plugin login page pops up when Microsoft Office Application is oppened, even though user don't have an intention to use plugin ATM

When user opens one of Microsoft Office Applications the Desktop Plugin login page pops up even though user don't have an intention to use plugin ATM and does not have a session - so user must login, otherwise the login page keeps popping up. Woul...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

Connections Whiteboard as a new file

In Connections Files the availability to not only add Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation files, but also a Whiteboard. At least with the functionality of: - Rich Text- Drawings- Add Pictures At the Google Drive I have the availability to cr...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

Fix "HTML source" not highlighted using advcode plugin in wikis

In blogs, the TinyMCE advcode plugin is activated when clicking on "HTML source" in the editor. This improves the editor experience significant with features like syntax highlighting, intellisense, tab-usage. It works in all applications but not i...
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Owners of a Community should not automatically be owners of a Sub-Community

When someone is the owner of a parent community, he cannot be removed from a subcommunity.We think that should be possible.
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Copy and paste image from Wiki to third party

Currently it is not possible to copy an image from Connections Wiki to any other application. In this special case a user wants to copy/paste an image from a Wiki to MS-Word. It does not work.I was running a test with IC 6.0 CR4 and IC 6.0 CR5 whi...
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

Windows Desktop plugin file search option

When using the desktop plugin integration from Windows File explorer and try to search for a file in Connections files you can only use this form of search sentence : PartOfFilename* and not *artOfFilename* to find files. When you use the search i...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

Short Community links shall be editable

In a Community-> Advanced Access Features you can provide a short name for short/ nice community link Unfortunately you can not edit this property if the community has subcommunities. This is a partially implemented/ not finished feature t...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration