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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    Allow linking anything to anything

    Allow the same way of linking all type of documents to each other, like in Wiki pages. Also check if the link target document is deleted and when you delete a document check if it is linked to anywhere.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Clarification

    Show Teaser of Blog Entry instead of full entry before A user opens it

    The content of a blog is fully presented to the reader as soon as the blog app is opened. This limits the amount of posts a user can see at a glance and as well impacts the read count of the post since there is no need to open the post.Add a tease...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    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

    " Seeking new Role ""Preview Only"

    Preview-only permission so a user can preview the file but not be able to download the file, sync it through desktop plugin, or upload a new version.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 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

    Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

    The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    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
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