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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    Change Community access after creation - Allow people from outside of my organization to become members of this community

    Would save time and effort if you can change access to an existing Community to allow external users access.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Implement generative AI within Connections

    Implement generative AI features within Connections to help produce, organize, and manage content (end user perspective), and/or manage the system (administrator perspective).
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Provide all users in Connections MT access to an HCEC portal for change management

    Requesting the functionality to have an HCL Connections Engagement Center (HCEC) landing page accessible to all organizations within an MT environment). This HCEC portal for change management should be accessible anonymously and/or in a "read only".
    over 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Needs Clarification

    Docs Viewer to support - Pivot tables

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Show all my liked content

    I want to have the possibility to see all content that I liked/recommended somewhere in Connections. For the blogs component this already exists here: https://.../blogs/roller-ui/favorites I want to have a view like this for all my likes (blogs, f...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Multiple Calendars for Communities

    Hello, I believe it´s not already possible to have multiple calendars within a Connections community. If there is a way, could you please provide me an answer to how? and if not, I believe it would be a good addition.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Pass my language selection to Knowledge Center

    In Account Settings, I can set a language preference for Connections Social Cloud. When I launch the Help, however, the Knowledge Center appears in English every time, and I have to switch to my preferred language for Knowledge Center. Users of no...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    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

    News overview shows blank thumbnail instead of a picture

    If a file attachment is placed before a picture, a blank image will be shown. Should be changed to attachments icons will be ignored, so the real first image is shown.
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration
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