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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    More News Channel Configuration Options

    It would be great if it is possible to specify the amount of news a newschannel can show. For example if I have an ICEC page which uses as news source multiple channels from different communities. Then one can only specify the amount in total wh...
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Make the engagement center and Tiny Editors part of the standard Connections that installs with everything else.

    There are too many add-ons and third party tools making connections difficult to install, update, and migrate. Please consolidate all pieces owned my HCL in order to make the administration and maintenance less difficult.
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

    It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

    As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Teaser image of a blog in Connections mobile app

    Right now you are able to open a list of Blogs (e.g. Community Blogs). If there are images posted in a blog, you have to first open this blog to be able to see them. (there are already descriptions in the overview for the title and the first few...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    "Create Peer" and "Create Child" wiki option is buried deep inside Mobile app options, it should be shown directly on wiki section

    Currently when we click on wiki and click on 3 dots option on top right corner of the mobile screen ( on IOS ) we will see one of the option as "Add"clicking on it then it will take you to further to see "create Peer" "create Child" If we can brin...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Notification settings can currently only be changed in the desktop version

    Notification settings should also be adjustable in the app.
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Enable deep link banner on Android platform along with non-native web browsers

    Currently, when a user attempts to access a Connections URL in an iOS device when IBM Connections Mobile app is not installed, a banner recommending user to download the app from the App Store to download Connections Mobile appears. Note, this i...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    Email notification when an activity entry is moved from one activity to another

    We don't get a mail notification when an entry is moved to an other activity in a community. Reproducible scenario:USER A does the following:1) Create community1b) Add User B as member in Community2) Follow Community3) Create Activity AAA in the c...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    RTE option "Link to Files" not available in standalone activity

    If you go to a ‘’stand alone’’ activity (edited) there is no ‘’link to connections files’' option. 1. Create a standalone activity 2. Inside the standalone activity, add an entry or todo 3. In the description field, the rich text editor provide...
    almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement
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