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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    The "Tag" widget should default to condensed mode

    In Connections 8, The "Tag" widget will by default shown in expand mode, but this take sup usefeul space , which forces the user to scroll to see the contents of a page.
    about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Members with Reader access in communities should not be able to share files from personal files or from other users into the community,

    When a user is defined as a Member, with reader access for the Files App, he is not allowed to upload files. So far, so good...but if this user upload the file into his personal Files, then he is able to share with the community. Beyond that, this...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    E-mail notifications only from individual communities

    Currently I get from each community I follow email notifications. For the future, it would be better if I could again choose from which communities I get e-mail notifications. It can also be because I only want to follow a community, but do not wa...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Already Exists

    Provide "Move" Feature for Sections in Activities

    In IBM Connection's activities there is a Move option for single items and there child entries. This provides a very convenient way to move content between different activities. Unfortunately this option is not available for sections and their con...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Make Blog URLs immutable

    As a connections user, I want to be able to change the title of a blog post without the link to it changing, so that I can add permanent links to it from other parts of Connections or the company intranet. Suggested solution: Change the URL addres...
    about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Import Activity (Connections & Connections Cloud)

    Export Activity is a supported function in both IBM Connections and IBM Connections Cloud. It should be possible to also import an Activity. This provides more than the obvious benefit. In providing support for both import and export Activities be...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow SVG as graphic file in wiki when using insert/edit image button

    The current function allows to upload an image file as attachment and automatically generate the image in the wiki page from the attachment: create wiki page use insert / edit image button choose attachment choose upload a new image and link to i...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Versions of Wiki pages

    Reduce the number of stored Wiki pages up to 100 last versions for all communities Or Set a limit of 100 Wiki pages versions for each community and let community owners decide, which versions they want to delete and which the want to keep.
    about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review
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