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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    Make community surveys visible to non-members in public communities.

    A public community is accesible by every member. Even files, libraries, wikis etc. of this community are accesible, except Community-Surveys. This should be accessible without being a member of a public community.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Owners of a Community should not automatically be owners of a Sub-Community

    When someone is the owner of a parent community, he cannot be removed from a subcommunity.We think that should be possible.
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Enhance the Notes Plugin

    Add to the Notes Plugin for IBM Connections the possibilities to view and edit all the other apps, like forums, wikis, blogs and so on. Let us push mails not only to activities but also to a forum, a wiki or a blog.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

    The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    Capability to align users horizontally when using People Selector Widget

    When adding users to the People Selector Widget, the users are listed / aligned vertically. There is not an option to list / align the users horizontally.
    10 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Automatically archive old communities

    Implement the function to automatically archive communities not used/changed for a specific time.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Migration: Add capability to migrate Community from one Connections Instance to another

    Migration: Add capability to migrate Community from one Connections Instance to another Add ability to migrate a Community from one instance of Connections to another Select a Community or Communities Export all the related content (including Fil...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to like an event

    I would like to have the possibilty to like a community event to share it with my network. At the moment you have to create an event for people to click "attending". But for people to share and recommend the event you have to create an additional ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Tag Cloud in Community files

    In community files there is no tag cloud. It is very important for the acceptance that there is a consistent behaviour. Therefore add a tag cloud everywhere its currently missing (for example files in community)
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Show track changes when previewing a document

    If multiple people work on a document, with track changes / comments, you have to edit the document in Docs or download it and open it with a local app to see the highlighted items and comments. Especially when creating a new version, being able t...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement
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