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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    Develop redirect-Activities API for Activities PLus

    Activities Plus / Boards is a great addon to Connections, but companies have developed own tools/custumization to the "old" activities based on the REST API. With Activities Plus there is a new API which means reprogramming all the other internal ...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Blog permalinks should point directly to the reply that it was copied from

    Permalinks in replies to comments on a blog post should point directly to the specific reply that the link was copied from. Instead, it points to the initial comment in the thread. This makes permalinks in a blog less useful, especially in extende...
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Created a peer should be next to the topic which I right click "Create Peer"

    Inside Wikis, right click on a topic and select "Create Peer". Then you can create a new Wikis page. However, the new wikis page is created at the bottom. For example, you have following wikis pages: Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 If you want to create a ne...
    about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    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.
    almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    No spell checker available in Orient Me while writing a status update

    As a user I want to have a spell checker available while I write a status update in Orient Me. This could be for sure just the browser embedded spell checker.
    almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Not possible to filter for components (forum, wiki, blog) in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to filter or narrow down the events/activities in Orient Me by component (forum, wiki, blog) so that it is more easier for me to find relevant content. Use case: I know somebody posted an interesting blog post recently,...
    almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    The "Tag" widget should default to condensed mode

    In Connections 8, The "Tag" widget will by default shown in expand mode, but this take sup usefeul space , which forces the user to scroll to see the contents of a page.
    about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Add functionality to follow or search tags in Orient-Me

    It is not possible to follow tags anymore. Also, tags are not clickable and searchable.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Allow to discover new content that you are not following already

    With Orient me, the filter criterias have changed from to only people communities and tags. Filtering for additional services is not possible any longer.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Add user by one klick to requested community via notification email

    Within the new notification email there is some missing functionality. With the old notification you are able to add a user to the requested community by one klick in the email. Now there is only the "open" button which opens the community. After ...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration
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