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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    Enhancement Request: Prepare the way to reflect the changes of group members immediately.

    This is enhancement request from the customer who is using Connections Social Cloud and ICEC on Cloud. We need to wait for 12 hours at the longest after changing group members through Integration Server of Connections Cloud.The customer wants the ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Include related communities in search results within a community

    If you search a community for a given term, and there is a related community identified with that term in its name, search results will not display this related community. For example: Create public community Create second public community and na...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Desktopplugin branding allow special characters for "DefaultConnectName" like the "Local Folder Name" for sync

    When rebranding the desktopplugin the registrykey "DefaultConnectName" doesn't allow special characters such as a ":" that is indeed a limitation from the windows explorer. But when rebranding the syncronisation "Local Folder Name" with the very s...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to add Calendar to Community Description

    It would be nice if it is possible to add the Calendar View to the main page / top of the community. Should be some kind of app/ interactive Calendar
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Notification to community members for wiki and when you share a file

    Notification to community members for wiki and when you share a file currently missing. Should be there as it is for forums, blogs.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Extend Tag limit / show all tags

    There is a limit of shown tags of 50 tags and 10 related tags to be shown at the sidebar, even though there would be enough space to show all tags in case there are more than 50. Please extend the limit to show all tags.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Bringing distributed Connections information on a comprehensive index page on the IBM Support site

    There are so many information distributed of many IBM sites. e.g. product documentation are on the IBM Connections wiki and fix lists / update strategy / step-by-step documents are on IBM Support site. I would like to have a comprehensiv index pag...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    App for recent updates in community overview

    Our users would like to place an app on the community's overview page, so that the latest actions within the community are visible at first sight when entering the community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Gamification: Competition about most beautiful Community Pages

    Give ConNext Admins the ability to start some kind of Competition about the best community pages of the company. Winners can get some kind of appreciation and others can learn how to enhance their communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve the access control for mixed license Connections Environment

    With the various type of licensing, it is possible to have one Connections environment with the following combination Files and Profiles only. Should not have access to homepage as well as other component but the personal files and profiles Conne...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration
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