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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    Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

    The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Notification requirements

    More notification settings. For example, if a new blog post was created in a community, I would also like to receive a browser notification, not just email notifications.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Option in AdminUI for Company Admin to view the overall IBM Connection Smartcloud Size and Overall Items size like Communities or stand-alone files for All users in his organization

    The admin needs an overview / metric for all users and all communities to follow usages and get the used storage.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Connections search shall not be exact

    ConNext search shall support partial match — not requires to use wildcards. Moreover current wildcard search does not support special characters. (bug) .
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Add Connections content to HCLSoftware U

    Please add Connections content to HCLSoftware U. Connections is really versatile, we need extensive examples / howto's / best practices / certification Because the posibilities are endless, starting users would immensely benefit from more examples...
    almost 2 years ago in 14. Documentation 1 Needs Review

    Support for multiple cloud accounts in Connections Sync for Mac

    I am a member of multiple organizations in Connections Cloud, but the mac sync plugin only allows me to connect to one of them. When i try to add a second one it tells me that i will need to remove the server connection to the first one first, whi...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to restore data past 90 days and ability to be added for admin for below functionality.

    List of ALL communities belonging to company users. There is function for administrators to retrieve this List of Admin, and guest users for each community. There is function for administrators to retrieve this Last time each community was used ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Under Consideration

    Feature to remove specific nodes under "HCL Connections" in Windows Explorer

    According to https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connectors/enduser/r_files_prefs_and_policies_windows.html it is possible to configure the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins via registry entries and disable, for example Activities functionali...
    almost 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

    Possibility to save interesting update/event in Orient Me like on old homepage

    On the old homepage it was possible to save an interesting status update or any other event within the activity stream in order to read it later or to just bookmark it for further reference. As a user I want to have the same possibility in Orient Me.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration
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