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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    Provide a more extensive authorization concept for Communities

    In our company we merged SharePoint and Confluence into Connections. Now our users are complaining because both tools had a much more advanced authorization management which can not be reproduced with Communities. For example with Confluence it wa...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Search API should have have same results as Connections search

    e.g. Search via Search API should consider that hidden community blogs (of deleted communities) cannot be found --> same behavior as in Connections search.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Possibility to get notified if a user starts downloading a lot of data

    Customer suggests to consider the possibility to get a notification as an admin or at least to see it in a log file or whatever if some internal users are downloading big data from communities? What I'm thinking about is something similar to the d...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Make files actionable by using activities and relations

    When working with files, it would be VERY helpful if you could do a simple thing: Connect files to activities right in the file preview right panel. Therefor I recommend another tab called relations where you can do this: add relations between fi...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    A way to add email from Verse to activity

    Today is possible to add email from Verse to a Blog, but during normal operation it's normal to want to add an email to an activty
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Seamless calendar integration

    When I click the "I will attend" button in a ConNext Event, I want to have the meeting automatically pushed to my personal calendar (not another one where I subscribe by feed) so that it blocks my calendar availability as well and is visible to ot...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    "Link to files" hangs with large amount of files in library

    Since IBM Connections 5.5, the implementation of the "Link to files" dialogue around files pagination has changed compared to previous release. When you open "Link to files" for linking files into Activities, Wikis, Blogs etc, the dialogue uses se...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Merge of communities

    Allow several communities to merge their entire contents requested by a common owner of these communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration

    Multitagging for all content types like for Profiles

    Profiles are the only application which allow any user to tag and which allows to enhance a tag by adding it again by different/additional users. Please implement this logic to all tagable contents.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Detailed Schedule for Email Newsletter per user

    Allow the user to schedule the newsletter based on selected days and also on versions different hours per days (Example: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM, 12:30 AM and 5:00 PM, Saturday 6 PM, Sunday off
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement
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