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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    Global Metrics for Communities

    It would be helpful to have a general metric, so as to see the comparison between different communities, in terms of traffic, most-read topics, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Provide an option to sort bookmarks by frequency of usage

    Please implement the option to sort bookmarks not only by popularity (i.e. how wide spread a bookmark is between Connections users), but also by frequency of usage (e.g. clicks per month)— Regarding the click-per-month frequency could be checked p...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Blogs feed API - ability to filter by age

    You can currently filter entries via the Blogs API by using the "since" query parameter, but this requires supplying a specific date. It would be useful to be able to supply a number of days to return instead. https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/...
    over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Already Exists

    Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

    Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

    Extension for search

    For a proper integration of 3rd party apps (community widgets, addons, Box and so on) we need extension point for search! Integrated content needs to appear in search, additional search boxes in widgets are bad and you can't tell users to search s...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

    In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    I wish notifications of changed pages included red (deletes) / green (adds) delta markers

    I wish when I receive a notification of a page that was updated, that the changed content was highlighted. Red for deletes, green for inserts. Sure you can go into the file info to see this - but since its a change notification, in makes sense tha...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

    Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

    Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Embedded / Insert To Dos into contents of Forums, Wikis, Blogs etc.

    In many cases To Dos could be used within another content type. E.g. a response to a forum question could contain a checklist. Allow to Dos to be insert into the contents.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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