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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    Open bookmark directly when clicking on "open" in the newsletter instead of showing the overview list

    Our users reported that the got a newsletter notification mail about new bookmarks and when clicking on the "open" link in the newsletter, the browser navigates to the bookmarks overview page. Example url: https://cnx.host/communities/service/html...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Ask user to confirm that he is aware that he is uploading to an externally accessible community when using the plugins to upload a file to an external community

    There is no differentiation between internal/external communities in the plugins. Therefor users can easily place documents in external communities without realizing they do so. Ideally a user should be prompted (popup with OK/CANCEL) when droppin...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Get calendar app back to Community

    It is likely that a lot of users are missing calender funktion in Connections. for the future I suppose there will be only one version of connections, as on-prem. In v6.5, the calendar app or functions, is gone. I supporse ther could be a sort of ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Missing Ideablog as App

    IBM Connectons Cloud deliver Ideablog as app, but this is missong in v6.5 on-prem. When will it be back?
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Enhance Bookmarking Tool Related Community - Add option for bidirectional entry when craeting a related community entry

    There is a great Bookmarking Tool in Connections to post the current into several other communities as "related communities".Unfortunately the tool only allows to make this one way current community to multiple others. Please add the option that t...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to redirect Comments (Wiki or Blog) to a Forum or Forum Topic

    Comments are OK, but sometimes, they are not reviewed or looked at much, or they are adjunct to a discussion going on in the Forum, so it would be better if there was a way to reroute or use the forum, either as a topic or as a new one (with the s...
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    A new API to create folders in Blogs

    You can create folders in Blogs via your browser, but there is nu API to do the same.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Needs Clarification

    The ability to import ideas blog

    Either give the opportunity to export the ideas blog as a format that you can import into a new community or give the opportunity to migrate the data to a new community.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Show TODO for Everyone also in your Notes Calendar through the Connections plugin

    When i create a TODO in Connections for my team ( Community ) and create a link inside my Calendar, this TODO is not visible for anyone. Only when i assign people to a todo, it will popup in the Calendar in Notes. Please allow Notes to add the T...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to utilies @mention URL as URL on Txt fields - Creates cleaner content (becomes mouse hover to display user profile detail)

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    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Clarification
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