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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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Additional Metrics Options

To have additional metrics options to be able to pull from Connections Cloud such as number of people who have downloaded the pronounciation file, be able to look into who has accessed what or what people visit e.g xxxx community to look at trends...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

Disable "remember me" page

Customer access IBM Connections website via a Citrix solution. Because of this approach they are automatically logged into Connections. Unfortunately upon connecting they are always shown the remember me page. As Citrix environment does not save c...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Search suggestions (search and rescue) not properly implemented in all parts of searching in Connections

When we search for all content, we get suggestions in the search result. If we search for "trainning", IC suggest "did you mean: training" When we do a search for "trainning" for example only within a community, we don´t get the suggestion. S...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Recognize Apostrophes When URLs Are Pasted in an Activity Stream Entry

When you copy and paste a URL that has an apostrophe into a status update, for example https://www.example.com/jdoe's_example_url everything after the apostrophe is plain text instead of part of the link. This breaks the URL. In the future, we wou...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Prevent design allowing Chrome Right-Click "Open Link..." option for several apps (eg files, Forums, Ideation Blogs) where links don't exist, bringing up a blank page

Specific to the Chrome Browser, if in any community page you try to right click on one of the Apps links (eg files, Forums, Ideation Blogs), the menu appears to "Open Link in New Tab" or "Open Link in New Window". There is no link to follow so you...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Hide HTML Guide by default

When switching to HTML SOURCE in the Connections Editor for a Wiki page, I would like the HTML Guide to be hidden by default, because it takes a lot of place and I always need to click on HIDE GUIDE when editing the source code
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Hashtags in Comments

In responding to a blog entry, I frequently feel the need to use hashtags, for everyone else to have an easier search when communicating. The problem is, the hashtags in comments are not recognised as hashtags, and could not be searched and found ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Community Bookmarks vs own Bookmarks

One can not handle bookmarks from a community like ones own bookmarks, ie. easy apply tags, im-/export, ... This shall be improved, why is it not same functionality as for own bookmarks?
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration