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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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Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to sta...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

"Find a member" functionality within mobile app

If you access the members section of a community via a web browser, you are able to use "Find a Member" to search for a member without having to navigate through the entire member list. You do not have the same functionality in the mobile app. Ins...
about 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

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

Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows on Terminal Server 2012 / Citrix

Copied from the old ER blog Customer requests the support for the desktop plugin on terminal server 2012 and with Citrix.
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 7 No Plans to Implement

Useful email notifications

You have recently changed email notifications so they they are in rich text format (which looks nice) but has removed the direct links to threads and authors (removed functionality). Please put those back, and stop asking me to hunt around Connect...
almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 5 Future Consideration

Hope comments inside WORD document can be supported by Docs Viewer

Tested on 2.0 CR3 ifix009.After uploading a word file to Files, got below error when viewing it:The file cannot be imported into Viewer. There is something in this file that Viewer does not support at this time. This file cannot be imported. Openi...
over 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Future Consideration

External community members should also get notifications

Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration