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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    If community widgets are hidden option should be available to hide from community navigation bar

    If a user decides to hide one or more of his community widgets he should have the option to also have the specific widgets not shown on the community navigation bar.
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    User should get email notification when other user updated the content of community.

    Steps to illustrate request: 1. User A logins to IBM Connections with valid credentials 2. Navigate to any Community 3. Update the content of another user (User B) 4. Verify that User B receives an email notification when User A (or any other user...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Allow selection of commnuity application during creation

    When talking to end users that struggle using connections, it is mostly because they are overwhlemed when entering a community because it has too many apps and they don't need all. As the decision on what apps are added by default is system wide, ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Sync_all_dns by LDAP Group

    An organization has a large number of LDAP profiles, which causes sync_all_dns to take an extended period to run. However, only a subset of users in one LDAP group use Connections. Sync_all_dns would be much more efficient if it could be run again...
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    Group/Stack events in activity stream

    If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Editing multi-day events in Communities

    Create an event in the community events widget and make it a multi day event, then save. Edit the entry and choose to edit the series. The fields to choose which days to repeat cannot be changed, those are greyed out.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Community events - receive an invitation from mail systems like Domino, Exchange

    Community events is a nearly closed calendar which can be added to a mail/calendar tool like Notes. What about accepting a calendar invitation? Allow mail systems to address a Community Events widget.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

    Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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