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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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I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Support MS SQL for surveys

As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Include additional details within Community Metrics

When accessing a Connections Cloud Community's metrics participation -> number of visits "show chart" view the "Community Overall Total" isn't always the total of the community components displayed. Requesting that all community components metr...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet

Requesting functionality for making the customizations explained in the following document "Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet" be available within IBM Connections Cloud https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYGQH_5.5.0/admin/...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Add file comments to connections digests

Please add any comments that have been included during file publishes to the Connections Weekly/Daily reports. This options for weeky/daily reports are set in the user's Connection's notification settings. This will help those viewing the reports ...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Add number of fonts to rich text editor

Please let us know if there are any plans to add more number of fonts to improve the user experience of Rich content editor.
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Editor "Mode"

Some users would like to have a dedicated Editor mode. On Wikis, Blogs, ICEC Pages, basically all Connections Applications and Pages where they have editor access, the buttons like "Edit" should be hidden. Only when the users activate die "Edit" f...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Add "change summary" to the media-updated newsletter

We got a request from our customer to expand the media-updated newsletter with the field "change summary" you can optionally add when updating a file in Connections. So you directly know the reasons for updating the file without opening it.
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration