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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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Allow multiple file and picture upload in status updates

Our users request to be able to uplaod more that one picture to the status update in order to display images from events etc.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 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 ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Group/Stack events in activity stream

If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

Limit access for global moderator only via moderation application

In the current releases of IBM Connections, global moderators are allowed to access all communities (public and private). If a global moderator is not member of a specific community, he might not be able to access dedicated community applications ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Search suggestions (search and rescue) not properly implemented in all parts of searching in Connections

When we search for all content, we get suggestions in the search result. If we search for "trainning", IC suggest "did you mean: training" When we do a search for "trainning" for example only within a community, we don´t get the suggestion. S...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

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...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Prevent design allowing Chrome Right-Click "Open Link..." option for several apps (eg files, Forums, Ideation Blogs) where links don't exist, bringing up a blank page

Specific to the Chrome Browser, if in any community page you try to right click on one of the Apps links (eg files, Forums, Ideation Blogs), the menu appears to "Open Link in New Tab" or "Open Link in New Window". There is no link to follow so you...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

SignOn screen. Please don't clear the email-address after a false login-attempt

See screenshot, is rather frustrating for our users
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement