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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    Sort Important Bookmarks

    If you add a bookmark to "Important Bookmarks" it will be positioned last place on the community overview. There should be a possibility to sort the order of the Important Bookmarks (afterwards). The Important Bookmarks could be used as an alterna...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Discussion threads place comment replies under orignal message

    Currently replies to messages are displayed chronological instead of under the message the reply is meant for. This makes following discussions, especially if the discussion goes in different directions, difficult. Would it be possible to have the...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Get notified after your contribution to wiki, blog, forum, etc.

    Scenario: Let us assume, I find a colleague's blog post interesting I write a comment about it - that means I'm somehow connected to the content Therefore, it would be helpful if I get notification if anyone else also comments to the blog after my...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to recommend/like ideas also

    As on today, it is not possible to recommend/like ideas. This will be an important feature if I found a good idea and would like to recommend (like it is now for blog posts or wiki pages) to my network, for voting. As on today, I have to do it man...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Preview option for posts on Forums

    At the moment, the Forums in IBM Connections only allows Save or Cancel when creating a new thread or replying to one. I'd like to see a Preview option added. There is already a Preview option here on the Ideation Blog when making posts, so let's ...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Image is not being deleted from forum app

    create a forum topic and include a screenshot via copy and paste the image is uploaded into the forum automatically edit your post and delete the image even the image is gone from the post, the image is still associated with the forum topic and ca...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Cascading Search in Communities

    As of today, if you search in a community, only the main community's content is being searched. If the community has one or more sub-communities, search doesn't look into their content. My expectation is that search always cascades to sub-communit...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Automated file compression

    Especially for media files - all uploads should automatically be optimized to minimize memory impact.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Add Typeahead in related community widget

    At the moment its only possible to paste the link to a community and to provide a title. It would be more convenient if I could just start typeing the community title.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Connections 5.5. Notes Plugin Status updates

    In the section "status updates" you can search for a Community/Person to follow. After a restart of the Notes client the selection is empty and has to be selected again. The selection should be kept and saved on memory.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement
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