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

    Tag cloud font-size bigger than 5

    Customer would like to use font-size bigger than 5 If the community content tags have frequency greater than 5, they get the font-size 5 assigned and are not distinguished by size. I checked the code in TagCloud.js (Connectionshost/xcc/js/widgets/...
    about 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 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

    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

    Enable Desktop Plugin for SAML+Kerberos

    In a SAML scenario, like IBM Connections Cloud (but not limited to), the customers IDP authenticates the user. If a browser is being used, the user is directed to the IDP server which needs to verify the users identity. In most cases, this IDP log...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Hierarchical Display of Communities and Sub-Communities in Desktop Plugins

    In Windows Explorer, communities and sub-communities are displayed at the same level and with the same icon. To find the right way around it would be very helpful to have a hierarchical view of communities and sub-communities in the Windows Deskto...
    over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under 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

    Provide better Error Messages for Infected Files when using Windows Plugins

    When using ICAP for virus scanning and uploading an infected file via the Windows Plugins for Connections, the file gets scanned and blocked correctly. However, the users just get the response that they are not allowed to upload the file. This is ...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration
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