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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    (administrator) Option to set the opening of internet-links to "open in a new tab or window" as default

    Users have problems with navigation in the system after the opened a (external) link to another page from within IBM Connections. Now it is defaulted to opening in de same tab/window. We prefer opening in a new tab/windows so that the user can eas...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Hide (external-)member list for external users as option per community and/or per user

    In some of our communities we have to give external partners access to the data but there are three reasons why we do not wish them to see the member-list and data of the other external members of the community: 1) some external member do not wish...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

    Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

    So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Include additional details within Community Metrics

    When accessing a Connections Cloud Community's metrics participation -> number of visits "show chart" view the "Community Overall Total" isn't always the total of the community components displayed. Requesting that all community components metr...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Pinned Folders Should Equal Communities in Windows Explorer

    If the ability to pin communities is developed, then those communities that are pinned should appear in the Windows Explorer list of "Communities". If someone pins a new community it should immediately appear in the Windows Explorer list and if a ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet

    Requesting functionality for making the customizations explained in the following document "Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet" be available within IBM Connections Cloud https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYGQH_5.5.0/admin/...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    How can a community owner know if a user is already registered / active

    The use case here is that The UI does not clearly present any indicator that a user is already registered and therefore "active", rather than the account does not exist or is pending. when a user is already registered and the Org member invites th...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Add file comments to connections digests

    Please add any comments that have been included during file publishes to the Connections Weekly/Daily reports. This options for weeky/daily reports are set in the user's Connection's notification settings. This will help those viewing the reports ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    The community name does not getting displayed under any content type in search result page

    The community name does is not getting displayed under any content type in search result page. For example: The search will only display if the search word is in a forum, wiki, file etc. It does not list specifically the Community name. This can r...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration
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