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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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enhance HCL Connections with useful features from Connections Extension Toolkit (ICXT)

We would like to have the following features also in Standard product of HCL Connections. Find duplicate or faulty user profiles and fix them Find HCL Connections content Backup and restore content Retrieve reports of unused or inactive contents (...
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Future Consideration

Improve Newsletter Presentation by grouping its content according to corresponding community / blog / etc.

Currently, the Connections Newsletter summarizes individual updates in whole sentences. This makes it difficult for the user to quickly get an overview,of the most important updates, especially when being a member of a large number of communities ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Handle confidentiality for sharing files via link from closed community

With CR4 sharing a file via link has been introduced. While this is a great way of sharing files from communities as well as the Files application, this feature can become an issue once a file is shared from a closed community. Sharing a file via ...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Synchronize data's between OnPrem Domino Directory and Connections Cloud Profile in both directions

Customer wants to have the option to sync information from a Connections Cloud Profiles business card back to their OnPrem directory.
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Offer @ mentions function in all applications

When trying to mention another user in ex. Rich Content app on the community page this is not possible. Users would like to have this option in all aplications since it will help with consistency.
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Improve search results view

Improve the search results view, so that you can clearly see which document/activity/etc... belongs to which community as described in the uploaded screenshot.
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future 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...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Add support Java 8 for TDISOL.

TDISOL does not work with Java 8. Since Connections 6.0 supports Java 8, TDISOL should support it.
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration