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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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04. Profiles

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Add possibility edit status updates

Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

If no profile picture exists, then profile picture with abbreviation of first and last name.

If people don't upload a picture there is only the one default profil icon - even not gender neutral. Would be nice to show the profile ficture with abbreviation of first and last name. This is common way - e.g. MS Teams, Outlook etc.
over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

Extend time-out while processing the profile information

There is a timeout error displayed while users are updating their profile information in Connections. Access the profiles, edit it and try to add/ remove or change some information. If the changes weren't saved immediately, there pops out an error...
over 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

Add (private) notes to a contact / profile

Like in XING I would like to be able to add private notes to a contact. For example when I have met this person, what we did together etc. I have a lot of contacts and it is hard to remember how I am linked to a person.
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

Movie or Presentation in "About Me"

I would love to have an ability to upload a short movie (.mp4) or pictures in the "About Me" section. In the present time, people are way more interested in clips and pictures than in a standard text.
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

Custom note area on IBM Connections

I'd like to see a personal notes area on the IBM Connections pages for each person that you connect with that way you could easily pull up their profile and see what other information you have about them that would allow you to interact better wit...
about 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

Allow pronunciation file in Connections user profile to be played in browser

After uploading a pronunciation file to the Pronunciation tab in the Connections profile save and go to the profile page. Click on the speaker icon next to the user name to get the pronunciation file. When clicking on it it downloads immediately w...
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

Connections Invite - start the process from a community

Please enhance the feature of Community Invite which was introduced in V6.5: allow the process to start also from a community - perhaps from the community actions menu or by a button on community members page "invite new external user into this co...
about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

Search API: Allow all profile fields to be returned as like search on Profile API

Currently full profile fields are not returned using Search API, /search/atom/mysearch/results?component=profiles. So search on Profile API, /profiles/atom/search.do, is needed to collect all Custom Fields for Profiles. The customer would like to ...
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration