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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    Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

    As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    E-mail notifications only from individual communities

    Currently I get from each community I follow email notifications. For the future, it would be better if I could again choose from which communities I get e-mail notifications. It can also be because I only want to follow a community, but do not wa...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Already Exists

    Integration with Microsoft Stream

    I would like to be able to conveniently embed videos uploaded in Microsoft Stream from the Connections Editor. My most common workflow is: I upload a video to MS Stream and then embed it in a Connections blog, wiki or forum. It would be very helpf...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Customer would like to have the ability to save Document Locale along with the spreadsheet

    Scenario: Customer is experiencing a problems with Date formats in IBM Connections Docs (spreadsheets) They use DD/MM/CCYY format by default in the UK. But when they're editing the spreadsheets in IBM Connections Docs they're forever having to set...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Date filter in Advanced Search

    When searching for historical information, it's necessary to leave out recent documents from the search results.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to copy/paste @mentions

    Right now all @mention resources need to be added separately (every time) for @mention to work. Copy/Paste of several @mention at once, is not recognized at something valid. Copy /paste of series of @mention should work at least in major browsers.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration
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