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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    In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

    It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Desktoplugin allow cut and paste into Connections

    Windows allows us to cut and paste files from folder A to folder B. When trying to cut and paste files into connections via the desktopplugin the files are only copied.It would be useful when the plugin allows the cut and paste, removing the origi...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Custom Page for User

    A self-assembled page. Our users would like a page that you can put together yourself. A page like Orient.Me only better configurable according to user's request with widgets. It would be best if the administrator could define the widgets that the...
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration

    Remove the [ ] in "Platformname"

    Customer followed this official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/customize/t_customize_new_template.html it is mentioned, that it's prossible to remove the Platformname. But square brackets are still...
    almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    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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