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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    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

    Display files without folder association in Community folder view as files in root folder

    Currently it is hardly possible to distinguish between files that are placed in a specific folder and files that are only visible in the Files view of the Community library (files that have been uploaded directly to the Files section), since all C...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    API to list community members of given time frame

    Our requirement is : An API to list all the members who have joined a particular community for a certain period of time(30days/60days)."
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Increase number of custom profile fields limit (IBM Connections Cloud)

    We are using custom fields on profiles (IBM Help: Customizing your organization > Updating user profiles). Currently we use 8 of them and there is a limit of 10 custom fields.Can this limit be extended? On-prem you do not have a limitation and ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Link to open files directly in Android app

    Customer is running IC55 + CR1 and mobile devices running Andriod 6.x or newer. What customer really wants to create a link that can be used to automatically launch a file in the in the mobile app. Accodding to the product documentation available ...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Allow linking anything to anything

    Allow the same way of linking all type of documents to each other, like in Wiki pages. Also check if the link target document is deleted and when you delete a document check if it is linked to anywhere.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Clarification

    Show Teaser of Blog Entry instead of full entry before A user opens it

    The content of a blog is fully presented to the reader as soon as the blog app is opened. This limits the amount of posts a user can see at a glance and as well impacts the read count of the post since there is no need to open the post.Add a tease...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Able to search Guest user within directory.

    There is a function within Connections Cloud / SmartCloud that allows external contacts to be added so that customer can use the collaboration tools. These are Guest / House accounts. When searching our directories, we are unable to find these acc...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to add widgets to Orient Me

    We want to have the possibility to add widgets to Orient Me like we could on the old homepage on the right side (Recommendations, To Dos, Events) in order to show e.g. trending topics (separate self-developed report that shows what's currently tre...
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement
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