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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    tag type-ahead for Files be expanded to include public Community Files tags as well as Files tags

    Two days ago I uploaded and tagged a file into a community. In another community I wanted to upload and tag another file with the same tag, but the system is not suggesting the tag I added two days ago. This is a design limitation, only tags added...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Line break in community name not correct

    Problem titleLine break in community name not correct.Problem descriptionIf you have communities with long names, the words sometimes don't get separated correctly. Words get split into two lines.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Every content object should be actionable in the same way

    Every content object (e.g. Wiki, Forum, Blog, etc.) or item should be actionable in the same way, e.g. like, comment, share, @mention support, notify
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Community Metrics displaying "This content is private"

    Please, refer to this Forum thread for further information/screenshots: https://w3-connections.ibm.com/forums/html/topic?id=dabc4ce1-07b9-443e-8c38-d8921862c2c1 When trying to display Metrics for his Community (Most Active Content - View > Wiki...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Browser Back Support

    One page https://w3-connections.ibm.com/wikis/home you do not allow the use of Back on a browser - this is most annoying and there is no reason I can see to do this. Please change this and allow Back.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    IBM Connections Desktopplugin add publishing for myDrive/ offline files

    When working with files in Connections with the Windows Desktopplugin you have a function to publish a new version within Powerpoint, Excel or Word.This does work from personal-, shared- and communityfiles. Now you can also sync your personal file...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    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

    Connections 5.5 Notes Plugin move attachment community dialogue

    Users complain about the Notes client connections plugin that every move a an attachment to the Connections 5.5 Notes client plugin's "Files" they have to open and fill in the dialogue concerning the communities/persons. This is very annoying if t...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Safari editing

    when you select Return in a Safari browser in Connections rich text area it doen’t do a new line, you need to select Shift Return.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Already Exists

    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
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