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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    Expand the capability for the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community feature

    Currently the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community are limited in the scope of the community data/content that is actually copied to the new community. Per https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/communities/c_com_copy.html ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    Possibility to add widgets to Orient Me

    We want to have the possibility to add widgets to Orient Me like we could on the old homepage on the right side (Recommendations, To Dos, Events) in order to show e.g. trending topics (separate self-developed report that shows what's currently tre...
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Proper URL preview in Orient Me

    We want to have a proper URL preview of URLs posted in a status update on Orient Me. e.g. google.com works, but if you post e.g. a link to Amazon, nothing is previewed. The URL preview should work for all links and needs to be consistent.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Add Support of Domino LDAP V10/11 for Connections 6.0/6.5

    Only Domino 9.0.1 is supported by Connections 6.0/6.5, but Domino 9.0.1 will not last long. Adding Domino 10/11 as Supported LDAP in Connections 6.0/6.5 Systems Requirements.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Working with multible Connections instances

    When working with multible Connections instances, for example one is in the cloud, one is hosted by us and one is hosted by a partner company, it is hard for users to differentiate bewtween these 3 instance. Give the users a interface where infor...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Add support Java 8 for TDISOL.

    TDISOL does not work with Java 8. Since Connections 6.0 supports Java 8, TDISOL should support it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Print Activities

    Please add a function to print acitivities.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Deleting folders created by other users should not be possible for regular Community members (owners only)

    As deleted community folders can’t be restored using the files trash/restore functionality, it should not be possible for regular community members to delete folders created by other users. Deleting folders should be handled analogous to deleting ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Integration of other web chat clients like Skype for Business

    Currently, only Sametime version 9 can be integrated into HCL Connections. It would be fantastic if you could also integrate other web chat clients in Connections with presence display. Examples would be Skype for Business, Rocketchat.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration
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