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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    IBM Connections Further Develop

    Please further develop the IBM Connections Windows Server versions. We do not want connections running on linux server systems only.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Improve mail notifications for Community files

    One of our users reported that he doesn't got any notification mails by changed files, altough he's following the community. Following doesn't result in also following on files in the community (e.g. changes on existing files or adding new files)....
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Customizable Community Navigation

    We need the ability to hide, rearrange and name navigation elements in communities like in MS Teams for example! When we activate highlights, it would be reasonable to replace the overview. We don't need always status updates and recent updates et...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Invite whole community to an event

    Our users are asking for a feature that allows to invite all community members (with one click) to an event. They wish for this function to be placed within the user interface of the event app. As of now, it is only possible to invite all communit...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Display order of comments in wikis / Criteria for sorting the comments

    Our users would like to be able to select the criteria for sorting the comments in wikis (e.g. recent to old, old to recent, alphabetical order of authors etc.). Also they would appreciate a reply button so that answers on a comment can be grouped...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Templates in all components

    As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    ADMX Templates for Desktop Plugins

    To configure group policies in a Windows Domain, typically ADMX templates are used. However, for the desktop plugins, only old ADM Templates are available, which don't work well with current Windows versions. The old ADM Files were used with Group...
    over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Restricted Community of only Viewer right

    The customer wants an option that can set all member as viewer in a Community all at once. For example: 1) Create a restricted community. Creating a community to encourage collaboration https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/user/communities/t...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Desktop Plugins: automatically clean up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing.

    CHANGE REQUEST: Build something into a new version of the installer which automatically cleans up the registry entries before installing the newest version if any older version is already existing. REASON FOR CHANGE:Customer has had problems getti...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

    Share a link to a folder via the windows desktop plugin

    With the additional registry entry "EnableSmartLinks" it is possible to share a link to a specific file within the Windows Desktop Plugin. If someone uses the link then the file automatically opens with Microsoft Office. Additionally it would be v...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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