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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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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No notification with minor changes

To reduce the traffic in the activity stream and focus on more relevant postings the user should have the possibility to mark a edited content (wiki page, blog post, file re-upload, comments, etc.) as "minor change" This posts will not yield email...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Show all the updates when following tags (not only public content)

As of now, if you are following a tag you will only see the public content in your News Feed. If you are member of a restricted community, you won't get any updates from that community when following the respective tag. We have reported that issue...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Tagging of Communities should be possible by everyone, like Profiles

Like in Profiles, it should be possible to add tags to a community. Why: Value and relation of community to certain topic(s) is strengthened > how to find the most related community for topic XYZ when there are 50.000 communities? crowd intelli...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Every content object should be actionable in the same way

Every content object (e.g. Wiki, Forum, Blog, etc.) or item should be actionable in the same way, e.g. like, comment, share, @mention support, notify
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Produce a ‚Connections for Dummies’ GUI

Despite enhancing the GUI and allowing varios home pages, we need to tackle the issue of complexity. A simplified GUI for a homepage, Profiles, Files and Ideation Blog that has less features but is dead simple would help adoption like for blue col...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

enhance type ahead search on Connections to find people by tags

The users wishes to search and look for people by tags not only from the directory search. The user will use the Type-ahead search e.g. directly from Homepage via the Search magnifying glass icon, enter a tag and all available results should be di...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

@mention inconsistencies among Connections versions when using copy/paste method to when inserting user name/email rather than typing it out.

Steps to reproduce:1. Write a list of 3 or 4 names in a text editor (i.e. Notepad++), i.e. Test User1 Test User2 Test User3 2. Navigate to a CKEditor (i.e. status update, blog, forum, etc.)3. Type a "@" symbol in editor.4. Copy and paste the f...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Provide more granular options to unfollow content in your activity stream

It can be rather annoying if you are notified in your activity stream that user xyz has updated excel file abc for the 124th time... If you click on "Stop Following" it can happen that you are told "You are not currently following any items for th...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Maintenance announcements posts in a multi language format.

Maintenance announcements which displays 2 or 3 days before maintenance when user logs in to Connections Cloud are only in English. It would be shown in their preferred language.And Customer Admin would be set the users who display these announcem...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Limit access for global moderator only via moderation application

In the current releases of IBM Connections, global moderators are allowed to access all communities (public and private). If a global moderator is not member of a specific community, he might not be able to access dedicated community applications ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration