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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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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Templates in all components

As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Editor(s) - Convert pasted Notes-Links into real Notes-Links (Notes://)

In case you past a valid Notes Link (document, view, application, anchor) into the editor in IBM Connections the result looks like this (example is a view link, al private date is replaced by "x"): xxxx xxxxxxxxxx <NDL> <REPLICA xxxxxxx...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Invite - customize the Self Service success page

We want to customize the Self Service success page such that the "START COLLABORATING" button links to a different destination address. Please add this option unfortunately at this time this customization is not possible by default in Invite.
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Clarification

Please release a legal Connections Container so that customer can quickly deploy this product

Since PINK is supposed to be container based and container does not have any OS, there should not be anything legal preventing bundling a ready for deployment Connection Container, right ? This should in theory help to immensely cut down deploymen...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Change mail format of Connections Cloud Newsletter (mail digest)

Is it possible to change the formatting of the email that we receive from Connections Cloud notifications? Decrease the font size, for example. When we get it, it looks like "polluted," and the real message ends up getting lost in the middle. I...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

Fix navbar movement and support mail integration officially

Support for the mail integration was officially dropped. We tried to install it and it works in general. One issue we ran into is that the wiki page looses its header as soon as we create or edit a page. The connections menu would appear below th...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting ta...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

Recognize Apostrophes When URLs Are Pasted in an Activity Stream Entry

When you copy and paste a URL that has an apostrophe into a status update, for example https://www.example.com/jdoe's_example_url everything after the apostrophe is plain text instead of part of the link. This breaks the URL. In the future, we wou...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration