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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    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

    Please provide WebHooks for all of the Event SPI

    I wish to be able to implement WebHooks for all of the Event SPI and make it consumable as queue messages
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    Expand the capability for the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community feature

    Currently the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community are limited in the scope of the community data/content that is actually copied to the new community. Per https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/communities/c_com_copy.html ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    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

    Proper URL preview in Orient Me

    We want to have a proper URL preview of URLs posted in a status update on Orient Me. e.g. google.com works, but if you post e.g. a link to Amazon, nothing is previewed. The URL preview should work for all links and needs to be consistent.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

    The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    ICEC - Enhance Configuration of News Widget

    News widget allows to specify the numbers of items shown. In case of multiple channels, the lastet published # items from all channels are shown. In case of multiple channels that vary in the frequency how often news are published this has a downs...
    about 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration
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