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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    212 VOTE

    Automatically upgrade desktop plugin

    We would like to suggest an auto-update feature for the IBM Connections File Sync and Share Desktop Plug-In. A number of improvements have been made to this plug-in recently, however our users often run old versions and struggle with issues which ...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 8 Under Consideration

    Ability to Embed Videos From Connections Files Appliacation in TinyMCE Editor

    Dear Team, The Problem: Currently, embedding a video from the HCL Connections Files application into a Blog, Wiki, or Activity requires users to manually generate an "embed code" and insert it via the TinyMCE "Media" plugin. This multi-step proces...
    16 days ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration
    146 VOTE

    @mention a Community or Groups in order to notify all members or groups

    Allow users to (at)mention communities in order to notify a big group of people/teams. Currenlty only mentioning of people is allowed.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 10 Future Consideration

    Different Landing page after login for external Users

    The core idea is to personalize the post-login experience for external users. By identifying a user's role (customer, vendor, etc.) and immediately redirecting them to a dedicated, role-specific landing page, systems enhance efficiency and securit...
    4 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Make the format (H1, bold, italic, etc.) from the Blogentry available in the Newswidgets

    The newswidget does not differnciate and shows only plain text, even if there is formated text in the Blogentry. It makes it more difficult to read. Please change and make the format available also in the widgets.
    24 days ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Support Tag Cloud Highlights Widget on Mobile

    Please implement the required functionality in the mobile client which is necessary for the "Tag Cloud" Highlights Widget to work.
    11 months ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
    119 VOTE

    Link Shortening

    Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

    Add the option to set a URL in Rules home page personalization to "allmycommunities" page

    In ICEC Settings > Home Page personalisation > Edit personalization there is an option to select community pages as well as engagement center pages (XCC) but there is no option to redirect users to "all my communites". Sometimes our customer...
    about 1 year ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    adding exclusions for ldap groups in appregistry

    When writing a app in appreg it is possible to add exclusions for users. For these users the app is not applied. Currently the users have to be listed one by one in the app. It would be good to add exclusion for a ldap group if users for exclusion...
    10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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...
    5 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review
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