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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    Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

    Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Connection Internet service

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    4 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Automatically remove inactive members of the community.

    When a member remove from LDAP, the member remain in community as inactive. Currently, here are some ways to remove a user from the community. 1. Community administrator need to remove each inactive user from community UI. or 2. It needs to remove...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Orient Me - Save decision which homepage to use in the user settings

    Today, the user decision to use Orient Me (New Homepage) will be saved as a cookie. Disadvantages: - User starts with classic homepage again after he deleted his cookies. This is pre-defined for some users to take place everytime the browser has b...
    over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

    Adding a way to set the users to "read-only" role to everything inside Connections

    A way to set users to "reader-only" role to Connections including Mobile and Plugins to avoid changes when there is a need to copy some data or perform backup will be useful. There is a way to set roles per application but it is good to have an "o...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Full Interoperability between Connections Events and Outlook Meeting

    Currently ConNext events can only be imported via ics or copy from feed in one's Outlook Calendar. Both have the drawback that you don't get informed in case of update of the original event. Moreover you might forget to set a reminder. Also import...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

    When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Ability for external users to follow communities

    External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

    Re-design of Guest Users/Visitor User Model for IBM Connections Cloud Version (SaaS)

    Back in 2016 there was a roadmap for a re-design of the whole guest users approach to improve the management of external users in your own cloud tenant that could fulfill requirements such as: - More control for cloud tenant admins - Overview of e...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration
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