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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    Custom note area on IBM Connections

    I'd like to see a personal notes area on the IBM Connections pages for each person that you connect with that way you could easily pull up their profile and see what other information you have about them that would allow you to interact better wit...
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

    use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase guest invitation deadline

    External guests currently only get 24 hours to act upon the invitation email. The link then expires and you have to send them another invite. This is far too short. It should be at least 7 days,
    over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Already Exists

    Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

    The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
    over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

    Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    MS Teams Awareness Icon

    Please add an awareness icon to every user profile picture like in MS Teams (Profile, OrientMe, Business Cards, etc.), so that one can see the availability of a user directly in Connections without switching applications. The integration of both p...
    over 3 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    ICEC: Personalization to be able to work with dynamic values and not just hard coded ones

    "I am building an ICEC interface for IBM Connections Cloud, latest version. During registration of users an activity will be set up for that user based on a template. The activity ID will be stored in an extension field on the profile. The require...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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