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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    Links in notification center do not point to actual content

    Link from notification centre should directly jump to reply (forum) or comment (blogs, wikis) of the last person that commented/replied instead of the original forum,wiki or blog post.
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Change Community access after creation - Allow people from outside of my organization to become members of this community

    Would save time and effort if you can change access to an existing Community to allow external users access.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Docs Viewer to support - Pivot tables

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    If trackback is deleted, trackback link in source should also dissapear

    write a comment under a blog post and create a trackback to another blog go into the other blog and delete the complete blog post go back to the comment you made on the first blog post and click on the still existing "trackback" link an error "pag...
    about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Files section cursor

    In the "Files" section, when moving the cursor over "All Community Files" instead of turning into a pointer as it does with "Community Folders", it becomes a text cursor (bracket). Same for "Trash". While not impossible to use, users who are not f...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

    Multiple Calendars for Communities

    Hello, I believe it´s not already possible to have multiple calendars within a Connections community. If there is a way, could you please provide me an answer to how? and if not, I believe it would be a good addition.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

    There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
    over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Provide a more extensive authorization concept for Communities

    In our company we merged SharePoint and Confluence into Connections. Now our users are complaining because both tools had a much more advanced authorization management which can not be reproduced with Communities. For example with Confluence it wa...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search API should have have same results as Connections search

    e.g. Search via Search API should consider that hidden community blogs (of deleted communities) cannot be found --> same behavior as in Connections search.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow duplicate wiki page names

    Currently it´s not possible to create a wiki page with an existing name. This issue was reported by several departments including mine.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration
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