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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    Highlight items in new newsletter (digest) and email notifications layouts: person name, content title, etc.

    To improve readability of the new newsletter and email notification design please, please make the topic/post titles and links to topic/blog/etc. more prominent (different color, bold, ...?) as these are really hard to read for our users. Also thi...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    Summarize/Merge multiple content in status updates

    If a user uploads several images or files in one action, a separate status update is generated for each image/file. If there is a large number of images/files, the sequence stream becomes very confusing. Therefore it would be better to merge these...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    Surveys - display external Guest user with displayname/loginname and not email address

    It should be possible to see the Displayname of the external user against the loginname or emailadresse in a survey answer.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Events Calendar - Define Categories and color

    Have different Colors for different Events. Define "categories" of Events, e.g. Visitor, Business Trip, Holiday.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Way to disable Desktop Plugin blank popup

    CUSTOMER REPORT: We have a problem with the desktop plugin, if the user is offline and starts the computer, a popup will open for the webform based login, with the info that the page can not be loaded.Can this popup be disabled? Or automatically c...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Lack of Connections Theme

    Many end users said the design of Connections theme look ugly, boring looks. They compare the Wordpress open social software so many theme designed I guessed.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 6 Already Exists

    Add API support to allow presence indicator support via 3rd party chat integrations

    Add API support to allow presence indicator support via 3rd party chat integrations. AppFusions has done these integrations and can assist on the implementation details on the IBM CNX side - but anyways, this needs to be done on IBM CNX cloud/on-p...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Allow visual customization of FEB/Leap

    With reference to case CS0360260, our customer wants to customize login page for FEB 8.6 (they have full entitlement to FEB which is used for Community Surveys) to match their branding of Connections. This is especally needed for the login page. A...
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Replay Guided Tours in Orient Me

    Customer would like replay the Guided Tours on the new Orient Me homepage. When a new user accesses the new homepage the guided tours are shown once, but after that we cannot get them back again. In SmartCloud environment we noticed that we can r...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    How to control the file sharing by Administrator

    We want to control the file sharing. Is there such a feature? Currently, each user needs to confirm "Allow others to share these files" every files. (Default: Not check the box) Also, each user needs to confirm "Sharing Options-Allow others to sha...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration
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