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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    Produce a ‚Connections for Dummies’ GUI

    Despite enhancing the GUI and allowing varios home pages, we need to tackle the issue of complexity. A simplified GUI for a homepage, Profiles, Files and Ideation Blog that has less features but is dead simple would help adoption like for blue col...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    enhance type ahead search on Connections to find people by tags

    The users wishes to search and look for people by tags not only from the directory search. The user will use the Type-ahead search e.g. directly from Homepage via the Search magnifying glass icon, enter a tag and all available results should be di...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    @mention inconsistencies among Connections versions when using copy/paste method to when inserting user name/email rather than typing it out.

    Steps to reproduce:1. Write a list of 3 or 4 names in a text editor (i.e. Notepad++), i.e. Test User1 Test User2 Test User3 2. Navigate to a CKEditor (i.e. status update, blog, forum, etc.)3. Type a "@" symbol in editor.4. Copy and paste the firs...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Feed other Community's Events into other Community and show them in one Calendar view

    In some cases, we would like to feed other community's Events (calendar) into a Community, just like when we feed several Calendars into our Notes Calendar in one view (so that we can plan our Community's Event without conflicting with the other c...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Simplify activitystream handling

    add the simple actions from the flyout to the activity stream itself, for all notification types. eg. accept, ignore network invitations, commenting on blogs and likes . Open the flyout to like a file or blogpost is just depressing...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    request config setting for default community layout in IC

    In IBM Connections 6.0, there is a new layout by default provided when a community is created. We would like to choose the default layout in a configuration file. We would like to keep the default layout of v5.5.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Add Community Type (single select drop down) to the Start a Community Screen

    Its is necessary in our environment to assign a "Type" or grouping to a community. It would greatly simplify administration if this field were available within the connections community itself. This typing allows administrators to identify the lev...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Maintenance announcements posts in a multi language format.

    Maintenance announcements which displays 2 or 3 days before maintenance when user logs in to Connections Cloud are only in English. It would be shown in their preferred language.And Customer Admin would be set the users who display these announcem...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Repeating Events, support repeat every 6,7,8 weeks

    Events can repeat weekly and the selection allows every "Week, 2 Weeks, 3 Weeks, 4 Weeks, 5 Weeks". Unfortunately 6 Weeks, 7 Weeks, 8 Weeks is missing. In the IBM Notes/Verse Calendar you have the option of 6-8 weeks so there is an inconsistency t...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Disable preview for xls (Excel) files

    Currently Docs previews has some limitations. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 In order to workaround these issues, we would like to only download .xls files, instead of previewing it.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration
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