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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    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Automatic tagging based on templates

    Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

    There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Consistent Emoticon support

    I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

    Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Custom note area on IBM Connections

    I'd like to see a personal notes area on the IBM Connections pages for each person that you connect with that way you could easily pull up their profile and see what other information you have about them that would allow you to interact better wit...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

    use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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