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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    Automatic translation of the link to the content title

    It would be great if I copy paste a link from connections into the editor and it gets automatically displayed with the title of the linked content. Of course, user will possibility to change the display text if he wants to (like he can do it today)
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Restore option for individual content

    In Wiki and other components, there's no chance to easily restore an accidentally deleted object e.g. a deleted wiki page. This is a SHOWSTOPPER for productive usage of all features not offering a simple restore option that can be utilized by user...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    Sort comments by number of recommendations

    Currently comments are listed by the order of their entry. For all kinds of comments it should be possible to be sorted by different criteria as: number of recommendations, date, commentator
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Single editor in all Connections components and Add-Ons

    We want one editor in all Connections components and Add-Ons incl. consistent image upload dialog in all components. Today we have different editors in many components.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Extend "Flag for inappropriate use" to Status Updates, Wikis, Activities, etc.

    Currently this is only available on Files, Forums and Blogs - though not consistent. Should be available and consistent for all ways of producing content - including Profiles.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Connections 5.5. Notes Plugin Status updates

    In the section "status updates" you can search for a Community/Person to follow. After a restart of the Notes client the selection is empty and has to be selected again. The selection should be kept and saved on memory.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop Plugin - method for saving the settings (eg communities added)

    Preserving user's community list in IBM connections Desktop PluginWe would like to have a method for saving the settings (eg communities added) from one system and applying them to another. Users who are members in many different communities, wou...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Flies Plugin - Highlight External Content (Communities, People, Files)

    Please improve the Files Plugin to clearly highlight external content, such as external communities, external files, external users. The current user experience is not consistent with the webbrowser and there is a risk that a file explorer user sh...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    request a custom search interface for the desktop plugin

    Please implement a search interface in the desktop plugin to get better search results. At this time the search failed with two different kinds of word separators ("_" and space) in a file name. Fixing this in the plugin would require implementing...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Survey Sumission to trigger notification or/and maiil

    If a users submits a filled in survey in a community it shall trigger a notification to the community owner/survey author and appear in the community activity stream.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration
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