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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    Consistent Emoticon support

    I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

    Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Custom note area on IBM Connections

    I'd like to see a personal notes area on the IBM Connections pages for each person that you connect with that way you could easily pull up their profile and see what other information you have about them that would allow you to interact better wit...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Customization of level details sent by email notification (newsletter) for updates/comments of content in Communities

    IT would great to have a option to set the detail level/customization of information/format of community news letters. The customization should be set per community level. This for IBM Connetion Cloud. The scenario is that often the mail box ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to configure connections so thay highlighted elements (blog entry url links) can be empty or removed completely.

    No description provided
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

    use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support IBM Plex

    IBM Connections should support IBM Plex for the IBMers who use it. More information for IBMers about this here: https://apps.na.collabserv.com/blogs/connections-features/entry/Support_and_display_IBM_s_corporate_font?lang=en_us
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to move custom fields

    In activities, it is possible to add custom fields. If you want another order, you must delete the field and start again. If they can be moved, they do not need to be deleted
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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