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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    Link to Wiki Page of other Community or native Wikis

    "Link to Wiki Page" or "Link to Wiki Attachment" are very helpful. But its only available to Pages / Attachments of the same Wiki / same Community. From my point of view it would be helpful to enable this function to select Wiki Pages / Attachment...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Request to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return

    Customer would like to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return. Currently, the way how we handle the invisible soft return causes the text position there wrong.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Restricted Community: Access Denied Page

    When we search the restricted community in Connections and share the community link with any other user then it takes the user back to search page instead of the request membership page. We want users to always get the 'Request Membership Page' wh...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Add file to different folders within community

    We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    allow to switch an existing community to be external

    Allow to switch an existing community to be external. request the possibility to change an existing community (with content) to be available for external user.Please add functionality to change the community access level to external in web UI. At ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Notifications - allow me as a page editor to make a change and suppress notifies

    I wish there was a way to change a page, and NOT send notifications some times (override watches) Sometimes when you are making alot of edits, you don't want to send a notification to the author of the page for every T-crossing. Watch Overrides wo...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

    I wish I could link to an existing Blog or Wiki page from a Blog

    I wish I could link to an existing Blog or Wiki page from a Blog- via an easy selection option or macro. If TinyMCE editor or the like was used, such a macro could be created/supported easier.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

    At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    Extend/deactivate Auto-Completition-Period of Activities in Connections Cloud

    Activities within Connections Cloud are automatically marked as complete by the Activities Administrator after the default Auto-Completion-Period of 90 days. Whilst it is possible to modify this value on prem, there is no current possibility to ed...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance ideation blogs with status field

    An idea in the ideation blog should have a customizable field for the status: in review, validating, rejected, will be implemented and so on. It should also be possible to assign an idea for review to a person with some kind of dead line. Open, re...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration
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