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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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Hide input fields for readers

Readers in a community have the ability to write a comment or a micro-blog entry. But they can not publish/save it. So why is their the possibility to use the input field. For a greater user experience these fields should be hidden in correlation ...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

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

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

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

New Design V8

In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 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 ...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future 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.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Navigation between ICEC & Connections

Create a breadcrumbs between ICEC and Communities. Therefore when I click on a file in ICEC and the file opens in the community provide that navigation to get me back to ICEC.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Possibility to define content as DRAFT or FINAL (Visually Shown for Files and Wiki)

It should be possible for the user to define the content as DRAFT or FINAL. User can do this now by putting a text in the top, but it would be great to define a field (with 2 options: DRAFT or FINAL). User can select either of these 2 options and ...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration