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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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Improve the access control for mixed license Connections Environment

With the various type of licensing, it is possible to have one Connections environment with the following combination Files and Profiles only. Should not have access to homepage as well as other component but the personal files and profiles Co...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Improvement in Comments

Inside all tools there is the possibility to add comments (Wiki, Blog, Files, etc). The problem, in each tool there are different features. I believe IBM needs to create an unique framework/tool for comments, and connect all tools inside this fram...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration
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Link Shortening

Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

Insert Photo in comment

Adding a photo to a comment is quite useful, for example, when trying to describe an error, it is better to attach a screen shot of the error than describe it by words.
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 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.
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Cross data center collaboration. Impossible to collaborate with other Connections Cloud users. error messages insufficient / wrong

My colleague was setting up a community to collaborate with our customer who is also using Connections Cloud. My colleague first entered the contact information and then didn't get the 'Invite to My Network' link, but the 'Invite to Join' instead....
almost 6 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...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

wipe list of "Recent updates" from the community?

delete the unwanted " recent updates" from the communities and there should be a way for the end users to be able to delete them.
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Set a Connections Event notification/reminder date & time

We request that when creating an event that you can set a notification/reminder at certain dates and times, so the system will automatically send these out to participants at the specified reminder time. Also if an event is created with no reminde...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Connections email notification settings notation for Files and Docs to warn users that a file must be followed or liked to receive notification when edited

We would like to have a notation placed in the Connections "Notification Settings" screen next to the "Files" and "Docs" options to state something similar to the following text: "Must also Like FILES to receive notifications when file is edited" ...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration