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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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Display and visualize what information is new to you personally

It would to nice to see immediately what information is new to you personally. E.g.: Display all topics you have already clicked on in another style or color than non-read/ new topics (like emails in Outlook which are bold=unread and normal=read)....
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Non-Members should be able to like or comment on community content

It should be possible to configure for an IC environment - to make it configurable to have consistent behaviour between moderated and public communities, so that non-members can like and comment on community activity content. The inconsistent beha...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

tag type-ahead for Files be expanded to include public Community Files tags as well as Files tags

Two days ago I uploaded and tagged a file into a community. In another community I wanted to upload and tag another file with the same tag, but the system is not suggesting the tag I added two days ago. This is a design limitation, only tags added...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Line break in community name not correct

Problem titleLine break in community name not correct.Problem descriptionIf you have communities with long names, the words sometimes don't get separated correctly. Words get split into two lines.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Every content object should be actionable in the same way

Every content object (e.g. Wiki, Forum, Blog, etc.) or item should be actionable in the same way, e.g. like, comment, share, @mention support, notify
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Produce a ‚Connections for Dummies’ GUI

Despite enhancing the GUI and allowing varios home pages, we need to tackle the issue of complexity. A simplified GUI for a homepage, Profiles, Files and Ideation Blog that has less features but is dead simple would help adoption like for blue col...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

enhance type ahead search on Connections to find people by tags

The users wishes to search and look for people by tags not only from the directory search. The user will use the Type-ahead search e.g. directly from Homepage via the Search magnifying glass icon, enter a tag and all available results should be di...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

@mention inconsistencies among Connections versions when using copy/paste method to when inserting user name/email rather than typing it out.

Steps to reproduce:1. Write a list of 3 or 4 names in a text editor (i.e. Notepad++), i.e. Test User1 Test User2 Test User3 2. Navigate to a CKEditor (i.e. status update, blog, forum, etc.)3. Type a "@" symbol in editor.4. Copy and paste the f...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Simplify activitystream handling

add the simple actions from the flyout to the activity stream itself, for all notification types. eg. accept, ignore network invitations, commenting on blogs and likes . Open the flyout to like a file or blogpost is just depressing...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Provide more granular options to unfollow content in your activity stream

It can be rather annoying if you are notified in your activity stream that user xyz has updated excel file abc for the 124th time... If you click on "Stop Following" it can happen that you are told "You are not currently following any items for th...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration