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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    Moderation of wall posts/status updates and the respective comments

    So far the built-in moderation feature only covers blogs, forums, and files. Moderation of status updates and respective comments is not possible. - Flag as inappropriate is missing.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Provide option to request access to restricted content

    Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports Also, make it possible to import custom Cognos reports into Elasticsearch. This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSear...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    If we install the non-Docker Elasticsearch environment, is it possible to switch later to the Docker-based ES?

    This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSearch for IBM Connections (on prem) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10735509 IBM Dev provided the following answer sometime ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name

    For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name, no additional metadata such as the community it belongs to.I definitely see the value in having the additional data since some content may be app...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

    Implement generative AI within Connections

    Implement generative AI features within Connections to help produce, organize, and manage content (end user perspective), and/or manage the system (administrator perspective).
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Easy way to find free time

    Tools like Doodle are well used. I think that a Doodle like application for Communities can be very helpful. Its possible to build this as a survey, but its not for a normal user. I suggest an easy application / widget for Communities. Importent ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Show all my liked content

    I want to have the possibility to see all content that I liked/recommended somewhere in Connections. For the blogs component this already exists here: https://.../blogs/roller-ui/favorites I want to have a view like this for all my likes (blogs, f...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    dbWizard didn't create XCC and ESSAPPS

    Customers don't notice it until Connections is installed. After that customers creates DB by manual.(creadDb and appGrants) Please create these DBs automatically by dbWizrd.
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Favorite Communities and Activities

    People who use the Connections Toolbar for Firefox can easliy access their favourite communities, activities, wikis, ....The social homepage offers only few space for this.It would be greate to have a list of favorites for communities and activiti...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration
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