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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    Timestamp for the privacyAndGuidelines Field

    Currently in Connections, there is a timestamp for touchpoint in Unix timestamp format, but not specifically for the privacyAndGuideline field. This means that when new privacyAndGuidelines are configured in touchpoint-config.xml in version 1.3 fo...
    over 3 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Link Files from other communities

    Currently, it is only possible to link to a file in a Wiki page from the community where the Wiki belongs to. But sometimes it would be very useful if you can link to files from other communities.Please implement the ability to select files from o...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Please make it possible to import browser bookmarks into Connections.

    Please make it possible to import browser bookmarks into Connections. Most of the time you have already saved your most important pages as bookmarks, entering them again in Connections is tedious and unnecessary.
    over 3 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Please Show a list of all communities. ALL! not only public

    See all communities on the web interface. Not only public communities but also moderated and restricted! The Link: https://connections-host/communities/service/atom/communities/all show only Public Communities.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    Support IBM Plex

    IBM Connections should support IBM Plex for the IBMers who use it. More information for IBMers about this here: https://apps.na.collabserv.com/blogs/connections-features/entry/Support_and_display_IBM_s_corporate_font?lang=en_us
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to move custom fields

    In activities, it is possible to add custom fields. If you want another order, you must delete the field and start again. If they can be moved, they do not need to be deleted
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    reply by email to forum for MT

    Please implement reply by email to forum for Connections MT
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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