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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    General Integration of GroupChat services (MS Teams, Slack, Sametime, etc.)

    When identifying an expert on Connections directly start a chat from the user profile and/or profile business card.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration

    Display Connections Events and Activities in Notes/Verse calendar

    Allow simple, out of box integration of Events and Activity deadlines with Domino based calendars in Notes/Verse without the need to create a calendar overlay which works only in Notes. A single checkbox shall do all the work and populate user’s p...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    A way to display users who were assigned with they specifc Files policy

    Need a way(An API or a command) to dislay users who were assigned with the specific Files policy.
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Make the navigation header for 7.0 works for 8.0

    We are aware that with the new update 8.0, most of the navigation elements have been moved to the side. We are currently searching for solutions to either customize the navigation menu or have the option of using a custom navigation header, simila...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app

    I tested this on Connections 6.0 environment and community owners are able to see the "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app.This behavior changed in version 7.0 but our users are still using the old Overview page as commu...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Needs Clarification

    @Mentions for external Users

    Based on documentation what external users can do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/user/eucommon/c_eucommon_ext_user.html and what external users cannot do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_5.5...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

    Improvement in Comments

    Inside all tools there is the possibility to add comments (Wiki, Blog, Files, etc). The problem, in each tool there are different features. I believe IBM needs to create an unique framework/tool for comments, and connect all tools inside this fram...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Develop Integration with other Collaboration Platforms (O365, G-suite)

    Connections is social enterprise software, and it does that well. Connections is enterprise collaboration software, and it does that well. Connections is not so good at personal/small team collaboration, where O365 and G-suite excel....and have th...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 3 Under Consideration

    Services Status Page for Monitoring

    This idea suggests to introduce a HTTP status page for all Connections services. This status page will enhance and simplify service monitoring and load balancing on the infrastructure level. If Connections is configured for Federated Authenticatio...
    about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

    Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
    12 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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