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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    Community Customization

    All pages in the community should be customizable like "Highlights Page". Another option is the possibility to organize the pages in the menu area as well as disable the pages "Overview, Recent Updates, Status Updates". In my opnion, the Recent Up...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Hope: Only community owner (admin) can edit/delete files and folders, all members can only view and upload

    Currently Community Files and folders have below two roles: Editor: (Share, upload, and edit community files and folders) Reader: (Share, view files and folders in this community) Customer hope below function: Only community owner (admin) can edit...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Show the location of the Task in ToDoList overview

    Please see details in attached [Add the Activity name in the To Do Overview list (currently just lists the Action and not the activity it resides in.]
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Fix JS errors from external users invite system

    A vanilla CNX 6.5 installation throws JS errors: XML Parsing Error: not well-formedLocation: https://cnx65.internal/selfservice/acl/inviteLine Number 1, Column 1: The mentioned url returns the following JSON: {"access":false} So something is wrong...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Open bookmark directly when clicking on "open" in the newsletter instead of showing the overview list

    Our users reported that the got a newsletter notification mail about new bookmarks and when clicking on the "open" link in the newsletter, the browser navigates to the bookmarks overview page. Example url: https://cnx.host/communities/service/html...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Get calendar app back to Community

    It is likely that a lot of users are missing calender funktion in Connections. for the future I suppose there will be only one version of connections, as on-prem. In v6.5, the calendar app or functions, is gone. I supporse ther could be a sort of ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Missing Ideablog as App

    IBM Connectons Cloud deliver Ideablog as app, but this is missong in v6.5 on-prem. When will it be back?
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Enhance Bookmarking Tool Related Community - Add option for bidirectional entry when craeting a related community entry

    There is a great Bookmarking Tool in Connections to post the current into several other communities as "related communities".Unfortunately the tool only allows to make this one way current community to multiple others. Please add the option that t...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to redirect Comments (Wiki or Blog) to a Forum or Forum Topic

    Comments are OK, but sometimes, they are not reviewed or looked at much, or they are adjunct to a discussion going on in the Forum, so it would be better if there was a way to reroute or use the forum, either as a topic or as a new one (with the s...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    A new API to create folders in Blogs

    You can create folders in Blogs via your browser, but there is nu API to do the same.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Needs Clarification
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