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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    Enhancement Request - Custom widget with similar functionality to TopNews widget

    In ICEC, the TopNews widget uses images and text from a blog post. i.e. similar to a top news story in a newspaper: Image + Headline + Text. When there is an image in a blog that is used by the TopNews widget this works fine. However, if the blog ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration

    Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

    Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists

    Enable Guest Users in Connections Cloud and ICEC SaaS

    Many prospecto clients request the possibility to have a public Information regarding communities and announcements without a registered user, and manage Information as common Community with registered users for other kind of Information. Right no...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 No Plans to Implement

    Adjust screen to fit for lower resolutions

    Current behaviour: When screen resolution is set to low screen resolution (e.g 1366 * 766) side scroll bars are activated to facilitate the user accessing all areas of the UI.This seems only to happen for the "3 columns with top menu and banner" l...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 Under Consideration

    The ITM bar should remember the status, whether open or closed

    We have users who like to use the ITM Bar in V8 and some who don't. Those who don't like to use it hide it using the two arrows at the bottom in the browser. However, this setting is not retained. As soon as you refresh the browser page, the ITM B...
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

    It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

    Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Like comments in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to like any comment (not content!) in Orient Me in order to avoid to open the original content, scroll down to comment and like it there.
    almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    User wants to delete own comment on status update in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to delete a comment that I made to a status update in Orient Me because I might have changed my mind.
    almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Create a view to see all content a users follows directly (user self service not admin or other people / content roles)

    Each user needs a single place to identify all the content/items which the user follows. The concept of following is an obstacle to my users and me. If somebody has an easy description, you are welcome to provide this ;-) - post a link into the re...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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