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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    Fix "Following Concept" in case of folder shared with a community

    Scenario. A Folder is shared with a community and the community is "owner" of this folder. This is not a community folder but it is owned by the community and visible within the community. If a user follows this community, the user is notified abo...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Fix a language bug in Connections

    The plural of Communitiy is Communites, not Communitys. This word naturally pops up in many places, you simply have to fix it, please. I am referring specifically to the German version of Connections. If you look below under "category", there you ...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 No Plans to Implement

    Hide input fields for readers

    Readers in a community have the ability to write a comment or a micro-blog entry. But they can not publish/save it. So why is their the possibility to use the input field. For a greater user experience these fields should be hidden in correlation ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Turn off document download

    It would be helpful to have an option to turn off the document download option to prevent users from maintaining copies of documents outside of the intended Files location.
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    RTE in status update (post text field)

    Currently the status won't accept rich text (that include formating, pictures, etc).
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Customize default email settings for community members

    Currently community email settings has below options: 1) Members can email the entire community 2) Members can email owners only 3) Members cannot email others We would like to keep option #2 from above and remove the option #1 in regards to who m...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Introduce option for Restricted Access to all Communities for certain users (Profiles)

    Even that it sounds strange in social software, in some cases (e.g. short term employed person working in a project) line of business requests that users even can access public or moderated communities is case that they are a named member.Please i...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    New Design V8

    In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Show number of new/changed items (updates) on the app tabs of a community

    It would be nice if the interface of a community would show the number of changed/new entries in each app (Forum/blog/wiki/etc) behind that apps name in the left side app menu or in the tabs above (with horizontal layout). That way the users would...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Introduce autofollow functionality for new community members in the IBM Connections cloud environment.

    Currently, within IBM Connections cloud new community members are not set to automatically follow the community. The new member must explicitly select to follow the community. Therefore, this request is to change the behavior so that new community...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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