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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    Highlights templates - request for warning message before applying template

    You can apply a template to Highlights, but there is not an undo option. Requesting that a warning message display indicating that the selection cannot be undone.
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Connections Cloud: Keep folders when transferring a deleted users files to a new user.

    When a user leaves the organization, it is possible to transfer the ownership of his communities and files to someone belonging to the organization.The result is that the personal files of the user who leaves are added to the personal files of the...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    If community widgets are hidden option should be available to hide from community navigation bar

    If a user decides to hide one or more of his community widgets he should have the option to also have the specific widgets not shown on the community navigation bar.
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Allow selection of commnuity application during creation

    When talking to end users that struggle using connections, it is mostly because they are overwhlemed when entering a community because it has too many apps and they don't need all. As the decision on what apps are added by default is system wide, ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    User should get email notification when other user updated the content of community.

    Steps to illustrate request: 1. User A logins to IBM Connections with valid credentials 2. Navigate to any Community 3. Update the content of another user (User B) 4. Verify that User B receives an email notification when User A (or any other user...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

    Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Group/Stack events in activity stream

    If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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