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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    Enhance dialog for invited guest

    Guests outside of company can be invited. Once they accept the invitation a dialog appears with some information to fill - like password. We want to extend this dialog by a phone number (or other LDAP fields) - which is mandatory for some companie...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Support for http/2 in IBM Connections

    Since Ibm application server 8.5+ supports http/2 and Http/2 brings many new improvements over http it would be a great feature if Connections would add support for http/2 in Connections. https://developer.ibm.com/articles/wa-http2-under-the-hood/
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Lock Activity Entry if someone is editing

    Currently if 2 or more users start editing an activity entry during the same time, the last one who saves wins. This leads to the fact that new content or modifications of the other users who have saved in the meanwhile will be lost. Also there ar...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Hide own completed ToDo when assigned to multiple persons.

    It's confusing that "Assigned To Me" Todo's in Activities are still visible, even when i completed them. This behavior only occurs when a todo is assigned to multiple persons. Please remove a completed ToDo, even when assigned to multipe persons.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Under Consideration

    Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

    The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

    Refurbish Activities to compete with Microsoft o365 Planner

    The user interface of Community Activities feels very outdated although it is a very powerful feature. I suggest to refurbish it in order to compete with Microsoft O365 planner (https://products.office.com/en-us/business/task-management-software) ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

    We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

    The possibility to insert emojis also in comments

    Our users love the new Tiny Editor with the many new emojis. There was often the question why you can not add emojis to comments and also not in the Embedded View in the Comments. In principle, these can be displayed by inserting the emoji via cop...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Create proper notifications for To Do items in Activities

    When someone creates a To Do item, a due date and responsible persons have to be defined. Unfortunately, there are no notifications when To Do's become overdue. There should be notifications for To Do items, that should be managable in many ways...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Markdown editor

    Hi, For writing wikis, it should be quicker using Markdown langage. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Possible to integrate a Markdown editor in connections ? Regards. SC.
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Already Exists
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