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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    Most Used/followed Tags

    Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Assign Activity / ToDo to group

    There is no option to assign an activity / ToDo to a group. Only single people can be selected.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Blog article with expiration date

    We publish news in blogs. It would be great if a Blog article has an expiration date. Maybe with a selection whether the article should be archived or deleted.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    Improve general performance of the connections web application

    Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

    The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
    over 2 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with textbox.io

    Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the textbox.io editor. If you edit a wiki page and click on + icon the "Bookmark" button is not available but exists in blogs, forums, etc. Our users request it. The users need the functionality ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Support Touch ID for IBM Connections App

    Support Touch ID for IBM Connections App
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Already Exists

    CentOS Support

    Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists

    Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

    In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
    about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Upload of Images to Forum Topics in Mobile App

    When using the mobile app to post a new entry to a community forum, only plain text can be entered. Our users are complaining that they cannot upload images, taken with their mobile device. So please, add Support for a real rich text editor with i...
    almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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