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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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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...
over 5 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.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

build proper email-integration with Verse, Notes and outlook (eml AND msg)

share mail to community as eml files from verse/notes (or MSG from outlook) make eml/msg files in communities previewable make attachments in mails available as contained files allow to store email attachment from Verse directly in personal AND...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 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...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

@Mentions for external Users

Based on documentation what external users can do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/user/eucommon/c_eucommon_ext_user.html and what external users cannot do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

Increase the font size

Most sites have such small font size I can barely read announcements in blogs, etc.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Support for Chrome extension

There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open ...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Allow advanced image propertys like borders, css and similar in TinyMCE

The old CKEditor wasn't really awesome as TinyMCE, but it has a few features that were missing in the new one. We miss the ability of right clicking on a image and add certain propertys like adding a border, apply custom css and similar ones. Tin...
over 4 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...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Allow Touchpoint to be customized the default Connections way

To customize Touchpoint, files need to be changed directly in touchpoint.war directory on each node. This is not be the way to go, as Touchpoint now (as of Connections 6.5) is part of the default deployment. And customizations there probably get o...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration