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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    View options to be included for the owners of communities

    If we are working at big content for a community, when we post, we will have to save several times until the whole content is ready and completely published. In this direction, the members of a community may receive - it depends how they have the ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Rectangular profile picture

    Since some update the profile pictures appear to be cropped in a circular fashion. This has a high number of drawbacks, e.g. : - the Connections Guide symbol is cropped out (this is an internal role) - the "e" for Expert visibiity is cropped out (...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Active participation report for Connections into excel – last log in, last post etc.

    Customer would like to be able to export a report from Connections that shows employees' last log in, last post, etc. Is this participation report feature currently available, or does it need to be built?
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ad Hoc Report Builder for Data Entry Form

    Facility for the community to create and design ad hoc report based on data entry form collection. It can be in a form of a plugin in an IBM Docs worksheet.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Data Entry Form Builder

    Facility for the community to create and design custom data entry form with notification workflow. This feature can collect user data for any purpose.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Find Blogs created by a user

    I know that a special person has created "public blogs" and "private blogs for colleagues". If you search for this person, there doesn`t exist a menu button : blogs . It is very hard to find these blogs if you don`t know the keywords or tags for t...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Already Exists

    Change of text displayed when document can't be viewed/edited within IBM Connections

    At this moment only a message with the content “no preview available for this file” is shown. However, it appears that the user can download the document with the options on the rightside panel (as far as permitted by his administrator). We do lik...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Already Exists

    Personal/Private option to add details to contact such as tagging feature

    Finding contacts in ones own network on Connections can get hard sometimes. An option to add information to contacts that can only be seen by yourself would be helpful. For example one could add information about where you first met. I would prefe...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    In the community app area - text labels UX are mixed up

    When moving a community app within the page layout - it has the following options: Move to Previous Column Move to Next Column However, when you move to previous, it goes to NEXT. When you move to NEXT column, it goes to PREVIOUS column == It's...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Requesting that the creation of communities vs subcommunities be logged uniquely in the Cloud journal

    Currently when you create a new community the action gets logged in the journal as type="COMMUNITY". When you create a subcommunity it also gets logged in the journal as type="COMMUNITY". The customer would like the creation of communities and sub...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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