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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    Fix "Following Concept" in case of folder shared with a community

    Scenario. A Folder is shared with a community and the community is "owner" of this folder. This is not a community folder but it is owned by the community and visible within the community. If a user follows this community, the user is notified abo...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Fix a language bug in Connections

    The plural of Communitiy is Communites, not Communitys. This word naturally pops up in many places, you simply have to fix it, please. I am referring specifically to the German version of Connections. If you look below under "category", there you ...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 No Plans to Implement

    Customize default email settings for community members

    Currently community email settings has below options: 1) Members can email the entire community 2) Members can email owners only 3) Members cannot email others We would like to keep option #2 from above and remove the option #1 in regards to who m...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Introduce option for Restricted Access to all Communities for certain users (Profiles)

    Even that it sounds strange in social software, in some cases (e.g. short term employed person working in a project) line of business requests that users even can access public or moderated communities is case that they are a named member.Please i...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Show number of new/changed items (updates) on the app tabs of a community

    It would be nice if the interface of a community would show the number of changed/new entries in each app (Forum/blog/wiki/etc) behind that apps name in the left side app menu or in the tabs above (with horizontal layout). That way the users would...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

    An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the us...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

    Introduce autofollow functionality for new community members in the IBM Connections cloud environment.

    Currently, within IBM Connections cloud new community members are not set to automatically follow the community. The new member must explicitly select to follow the community. Therefore, this request is to change the behavior so that new community...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Have a migration path for Media Gallery of IC 5.x to Gallery app in IC6.0

    When migrating IC 5.0 to IC 6CR3, it removes the media gallery widget from all communities.We know that the media gallery is deprecated since 5.5... and replaced with the Gallery app.but we would expect that the media gallery widget is migrated to...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    To be able to search content contained in folder descriptions

    We stored transport numbers in the file folder description. Now, we are in need to be able to pull up a random list of transport numbers up and provide the auditor with the corresponding documentation. Much to our surprise, transport numbers were ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Organize notification email by community, not by contributor

    Hi, I get a weekly digest of my connections notifications. They're arranged by contributor. I like to keep track of some communities more than others; It would be a lot easier to review notifications if they were arranged by community, so I didn't...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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