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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    Edit Bookmarks does not work correcty

    The pop-down menu on the right side offers the option to "modify" your bookmark . In reality you can simply and only alter the number of displayed bookmarks in the shown window. If you want to make relevant changes you have to go into the applicat...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support UDB (DB2) AUTHENTICATION=SERVER_ENCRYPT

    We have a standard that all data is encrypted "at rest" and "in motion". Please add UDB (DB2) AUTHENTICATION=SERVER_ENCRYPT as supported.
    over 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Not possible to post Firefox compatible file links into a status update

    We want to have the possibility to post links to file shares into status updates in Connections since we store files on file shares as well. A link looks like this and it should be possible to make this clickable in status updates. Firefox should ...
    over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Externals / Visitors should be able to be owners of restricted (external) communities

    In our company we do have for example externals which provide application support within Connections. That's why it would be great if they could edit forum entries, use @-mentions for community members, ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Interoperability with IE

    I've heard that after Connections Cloud users cannot use IE to access Connections. My customer use only IE as a web browser at now. We strongly request to support IE as a browser.
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Blog referrer should reference the specific page containing the link

    When a link to a blog is posted outside of the blog, a forum, wiki, or Portal page for example, and then the link is clicked on, an entry under Manage Blog > Referrers is created. However, the referrer link doesn't reference the specific page w...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Change order of related communities

    ​It would be nice if we could change the order of the linked/related communities (on community start page), since only 5 are visible in the preview.
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    dbWizard.sh can not see any DB2 databases while upgrading to connections 6.5

    While upgrading Connections V6.0 CR6 to V6.5 the dbWizard can not see any installed database under the Update menu in the DB Wizard. The reason you are not seeing the DBs is because you are already at version 6.5 and require no updates. However, t...
    almost 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

    show in the section "My Communities" only the communities I'm a member of

    At the moment you find under "my communities" also communities you are not a member of. It also lists communities you've randomly clicked on in the "explore" section.
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Already Exists

    Hour registration item and to do list

    As a user i want to add hours to a item or a to do field. You can add own field now in the items and to do's. Maybe it can be extensive with a field: add hours. Ad then you can add 0,5-99 hours to your item or to do. If this can be exported to, it...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration
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