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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    Make Blog URLs immutable

    As a connections user, I want to be able to change the title of a blog post without the link to it changing, so that I can add permanent links to it from other parts of Connections or the company intranet. Suggested solution: Change the URL addres...
    about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Import Activity (Connections & Connections Cloud)

    Export Activity is a supported function in both IBM Connections and IBM Connections Cloud. It should be possible to also import an Activity. This provides more than the obvious benefit. In providing support for both import and export Activities be...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow SVG as graphic file in wiki when using insert/edit image button

    The current function allows to upload an image file as attachment and automatically generate the image in the wiki page from the attachment: create wiki page use insert / edit image button choose attachment choose upload a new image and link to i...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Ability for users to configure whether Homepage links open in current or new tabs

    On Homepage, if you click a link, it opens in a new tab instead of opening it on current tab. Need option to allow user to choose whether open a link on Homepage, it opens in a new tab or on current tab.
    about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Versions of Wiki pages

    Reduce the number of stored Wiki pages up to 100 last versions for all communities Or Set a limit of 100 Wiki pages versions for each community and let community owners decide, which versions they want to delete and which the want to keep.
    about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    NNTP (native) support - Add to Connections

    Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP is the native format used by the internet for News groups (aka Forums). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol for some details and information. The idea is that this would also be a...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Can't toggle/save advanced code editor plugin changes

    Another copy of an already reported bug, which the HCL support doesn't accept as bug: I enabled the advanced code editor plugin https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/plugins/advcode/ to have syntax highlighting in the editors html code and default fuctions ...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification
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