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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Ideas

    Advanced search in the global search bar

    Requesting a design change with how the Advanced search option is not in the global search bar. Although this is working as design, the documentation may be a bit misleading. Currently, the advanced search bar does not display in the initial searc...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    Add the tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Using IBM Docs as a previewer for community files in wiki pages iframes

    We want to publish previews on documents from the files library in some guideline-style wiki pages. Therefore we used the ibm docs preview URL as an iframe src URL in a wiki page. This works fine. Now we encounter additional feature request from o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Post Content as another Person

    It would be great if you could publish content under someone else's name and/or if the content creator could be changed afterwards. Examples: For blogs, management wants their assistants to be able to publish content under their name. For files, ...
    about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Under Consideration

    Use Bookmarks to create shorten links

    Bookmarks is a great feature, but it needs to be extend. The possibility to create Shorten Links with bookmarks can bring a create feature to connections. Those links could be accessed internally or externally. Add some statistics can help users t...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Accepting button for Network contact invitations

    When a User receive a request to become a Network contact in Connections. The only possibility is, to open the profile directly or from the Notification Bell, and select "Accept invitation". It would be good to have a direct button option in the N...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    TinyMCE to consider Active Content Filtering rules by Connections

    Connections allows to customize Active Content Filter rules. By this, customers are able to adapt blacklist or whitelist to their needs. - Whitelist: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/secure/sec_acf_whitelist_intro.html - Blackl...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Permit users to select nested folders in the Highlights files widget

    The current behavior of the HCL Highlightes files widget only permits you to select the parent folder to display in the widget. This request is to allow users to select subfolders as well. created a Community Navigated to Highlights Select Widgets...
    almost 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    ICXT - Enhance manage wikis UI to restrict visibility of private wikis

    ICXT shows the wrong visibility for stand-alone wikis. For stand-alone wikis:If you set the wiki rights as:Read: Wiki members onlyEdit: Wiki editors and owners only In ICXT--> Manage --> Wikiit will show the field "Visibility" as "Public for...
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Fix CNAME violation of DNS specification

    Multiple friends and colleges can't reach the idea lab, because you CNAME record violates the DNS specifications: $ dig connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.4-Ubuntu <<>> connections-ideas.hcltechsw....
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists
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