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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    The "Tag" widget should default to condensed mode

    In Connections 8, The "Tag" widget will by default shown in expand mode, but this take sup usefeul space , which forces the user to scroll to see the contents of a page.
    about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Add functionality to follow or search tags in Orient-Me

    It is not possible to follow tags anymore. Also, tags are not clickable and searchable.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Allow to discover new content that you are not following already

    With Orient me, the filter criterias have changed from to only people communities and tags. Filtering for additional services is not possible any longer.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    It should be possible to vote for comments

    It should be possible to vote for comments. Especially in posts with lots of comments it would be nice to see the "hot" ones (e.g. youtube) or the possibility to filter for it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Add like possibility to comments

    Please add the possiblity to "like" a comment into the next release
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Members with Reader access in communities should not be able to share files from personal files or from other users into the community,

    When a user is defined as a Member, with reader access for the Files App, he is not allowed to upload files. So far, so good...but if this user upload the file into his personal Files, then he is able to share with the community. Beyond that, this...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Change mail format of Connections Cloud Newsletter (mail digest)

    Is it possible to change the formatting of the email that we receive from Connections Cloud notifications? Decrease the font size, for example. When we get it, it looks like "polluted," and the real message ends up getting lost in the middle. I k...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add Like and Comment functionality to embedded experience.

    Today third party widgets can be added as embedded experience in the Activity Stream of IBM Connections. Today users can interact with the widget but can not like or comment within Connections about the shown data. Idea: Create a possibility to en...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Allow customizer to react on POST requests.

    Currently customizer just injects code on HTTP GET requests. At least there is at least the forum topic search where the page is presented after a POST request. Currently customizer does not modify this request and therefore not CSS customizations...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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