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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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Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

new "Configure Connection Retention in the Trash Folder", like e-mail retention

Currently In Connections Cloud, if a user deletes all the content to which they have access (an entire community, community or personal files, wikis, etc.), and then removes the trash, perhaps by mistake, perhaps because he was fired, or by any ot...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Ability to copy/paste @mentions

Right now all @mention resources need to be added separately (every time) for @mention to work. Copy/Paste of several @mention at once, is not recognized at something valid. Copy /paste of series of @mention should work at least in major browsers.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Hashtags in Comments

In responding to a blog entry, I frequently feel the need to use hashtags, for everyone else to have an easier search when communicating. The problem is, the hashtags in comments are not recognised as hashtags, and could not be searched and found ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Editor(s) - Convert pasted Notes-Links into real Notes-Links (Notes://)

In case you past a valid Notes Link (document, view, application, anchor) into the editor in IBM Connections the result looks like this (example is a view link, al private date is replaced by "x"): xxxx xxxxxxxxxx <NDL> <REPLICA xxxxxxx...
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

Moderation of wall posts/status updates and the respective comments

So far the built-in moderation feature only covers blogs, forums, and files. Moderation of status updates and respective comments is not possible. - Flag as inappropriate is missing.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Multitagging for all content types like for Profiles

Profiles are the only application which allow any user to tag and which allows to enhance a tag by adding it again by different/additional users. Please implement this logic to all tagable contents.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Improvement to files linked in Activity Stream

When a user adds a file to the AS and saves it, fellow users see a link for pdf & doc ,but for images they see a thumbnail preview. The current functionality is by clicking the link under the file the file is downloaded. Clicking the file titl...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Advanced search in the global search bar

Requesting a design change with how the Advanced search option is not in the global search bar. Although this is working as design, the documentation may be a bit misleading. Currently, the advanced search bar does not display in the initial searc...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration