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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    Ability to mail other external Community members from an external community member

    When somebody sends an email to a community, the sender is the email address. If that person is an external user, the sender address is the external email address. When that external user sends a mail to other external members in the community....
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

    In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
    about 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Option to create a list of Files/Folders

    Currently it's not possible to create a list of files/folders from the apps Files/Folders or Libraries in Community's similar to for instance the old fashioned DIR-command you can use to list files/folders for a local hard drive or networkdrive.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Completely remove all of the old stack from Connections by version 7.0

    As a business partner, we find it hard to sell the current version of Connections because customer need to provide 2 kind of hardware (one for WAS and another for the Component Pack). In fact we have one customer who repeatedly delay their planned...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Calendar Picker for event shall start week on Monday

    I have setup an event on a Sunday because the week starts on Sunday in the calendar picker. At least an option to change this would be great.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

    In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

    All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

    Create events with limited members

    it would be greate to create events with limited members. After the limit is reached, users can't no more attend to the event.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Combine Recent Updates and Status Updates into one menu item in communites

    These 2 take up valuable landscape in the menu bar and are used way too infrequently. Combine into one view and give users the option to filter, as necessary. Accelerate value of updates and finding the latest changes within communities! See also ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

    For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner fo...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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