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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Embedding File Preview

I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

Support Rich HTML (& CSS) for Activity Streams

REQUEST: Support a richer set of HTML & CSS for Activity Streams to be at par competitively. For example, products like HipChat and Slack and other activity stream type apps support this. JUSTIFICATION: Perception and eye-candy is core and val...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Support Notify for all content types

All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cre...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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 ...
over 5 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

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

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

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
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