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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    Need a way to work in a Community Files app “offline” and sync to the cloud automatically when online again

    Environment: Smart Cloud Connections Refer to below URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSL3JX/files/c_files_sync_refresh.html You can Use My Drive to work with files offline, files you add and edit in My Drive are automatically ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Embedding File Preview

    I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Improve search results view

    Improve the search results view, so that you can clearly see which document/activity/etc... belongs to which community as described in the uploaded screenshot.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole)

    I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole) - and when copied, it is named "Copy of <original name>" unless I edit the name before it is saved the first time. Maybe also include a choice on whether to copy comments and attachm...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Blogs - Add simple approval workflow

    in corporate communications it might b e necessary that blog entries are approved before these are published. Add a simple workflow for this.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Option to create and edit diagrams in Wikis, Blogs and Forums

    Adding diagrams to Blog posts and Wiki documents as living objects (edit and change directly from the Connections editor) would extend the possibilities of working together on text and diagrams without the need of installed software and export thi...
    over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Support Rich HTML (& CSS) for Activity Streams

    REQUEST: Support a richer set of HTML & CSS for Activity Streams to be at par competitively. For example, products like HipChat and Slack and other activity stream type apps support this. JUSTIFICATION: Perception and eye-candy is core and val...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Improve Blogs UI for ease of navigation/use by end users

    Requesting these changes to the Blogs UI as the current design is not intuitive nor efficient for end users. Once a draft blog is composed saved & closed there is no straight forward way of getting back the draft. For the community owner(s), t...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

    In Community Activities remove the option to make other users readers when the community is public anyway

    The security in Community Activities in public & moderated communities is confusing and implies a level of security that isn't valid: Working for a customer on creating some documentation I found the following. In Community Activities you hav...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Ability to disable More menu or custom submenu item from displaying on main level

    The "More" menu in the lefthand navigation pane contains the apps that do not display at the main level. After clicking an option on the "More" menu, the selection will display at the top level until a different "More" selection gets clicked. Simi...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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