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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    Allow members in a subcommunity that are not members of the parent.

    Create a subcommunity and have members of that subcommunity that are not members of the parent.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Reduce notifications to once a day

    If I am updating a lot in my community members and followers were notificated about every single change.I do not want to spam my followers. So it would be better that everyone will get only one notification a day for one community independent how ...
    almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance Activities

    There is an opportunity to turn Activities into a more powerful project/task management tool: - add optional starting date for todos so they have a duration - add optional links between tasks (depends-on, conflicts-with,...) - add optional priorit...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

    Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
    about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to review and change memberships for all communities which I own

    At the very moment I can access the communities I am an owner of. Still I have no to sort/filter these by other owners, members As well I would like to identify these having issues with the memberships (see here) or the add and remove access for m...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Files - Allow to create Links to Files and Folders (e.g. at Desktop)

    It would be comfortable to have the opportunity to create a direct Folder or File-Link (e.g. at the Desktop) instead of clicking through Windows Explorer "communities - Community XY - Folders - ..." That function would increase acceptance in the B...
    almost 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow right mouse click 'Open Link in new tab' in IE for Communitys on 'My Communitys' site of CR4

    We like to open Communitys with right hand click on a new tab of the Internet Explorer.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Improve IBM Connections Suverys to be able to compete with your Competitors

    Surveys is a nice app but lacks functionality for professional use. Add more question types like "Matrix of Drop-down Menus" where a table can be displayed where use can select cells. See google forms, Microsoft forms, survey monkey and other surv...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Formatting comments in the ideation blog

    Function for formatting comments in the ideation blog. Similar to writing an idea, fomatization and moderation options could help to write comments or give feedback. Besides, adding images in the comment section would help.
    about 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Open files directly in specific applications from within the browser

    If users are receiving file links, the files get previewed within the browser. If they then want to edit the file directly in the specific application and not in the online editor the file needs to be downloaded, saved in an intermediate place and...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists
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