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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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Ability to see all folders in the Connections UI folders view display (left side panel)

When using the IBM Connections Web UI folders view display on the left side, (see screenshot) only limited with only 100 folders shown, there is no function to extend this view. The customer would like to be able to show/see all folders.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Like option consistency in mobile

Add like options in mobile everywhere where it is possible in the browser! For example you can't like wiki pages or comments in mobile app (Android)
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Increase the options for Notifications within Communities

Directly from the customer: We'd like to recommend that we add more options for sending and receiving notifications. From the content creator perspective we'd like to have an option to send a notification when we create new content: post a blog, c...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting ta...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

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

ConNext Events Export list of attendees

It shall be possible to export in one click the email list of the people that clicked "I will attend" to a ConNext event or mailto them.
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

I'd like the ability to share blogs with other communities.

When multiple business areas are affected by a change, I'd like the ability to post a blog and share it as a blog on the other impacted communities.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

Prevent syncing / download of 'restricted community' content

We need to tighten the security on some specific communities that contain classified documents.Members should not be able to download or sync documents / files to any local storage outside the Connections app storage. Existing options (AllowExpor...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Preview file rather than download file when clicking on file name in wiki

As a Connections user, I want a file to be shown in Connections rather than being downloaded when I click on file name in Wiki because the purpose of Connections is to collaborate on files rather than distributing them to client computers. When a ...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration