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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    Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

    Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

    Blogs feed API - ability to filter by age

    You can currently filter entries via the Blogs API by using the "since" query parameter, but this requires supplying a specific date. It would be useful to be able to supply a number of days to return instead. https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/...
    over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Already Exists

    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 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    (administrator) Option to set the opening of internet-links to "open in a new tab or window" as default

    Users have problems with navigation in the system after the opened a (external) link to another page from within IBM Connections. Now it is defaulted to opening in de same tab/window. We prefer opening in a new tab/windows so that the user can eas...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Hide (external-)member list for external users as option per community and/or per user

    In some of our communities we have to give external partners access to the data but there are three reasons why we do not wish them to see the member-list and data of the other external members of the community: 1) some external member do not wish...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    I wish notifications of changed pages included red (deletes) / green (adds) delta markers

    I wish when I receive a notification of a page that was updated, that the changed content was highlighted. Red for deletes, green for inserts. Sure you can go into the file info to see this - but since its a change notification, in makes sense tha...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under 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 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

    Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Embedded / Insert To Dos into contents of Forums, Wikis, Blogs etc.

    In many cases To Dos could be used within another content type. E.g. a response to a forum question could contain a checklist. Allow to Dos to be insert into the contents.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under 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 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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