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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    View the activity of my network people on their Connections profile

    ​I would like to be able to see all the activity (blog entries, likes, file uploads, etc) for people in my network when I go to their profile page. Right now, if I access someone`s profile I can see all my notifications, which is the same as going...
    almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Be able to see if a guest is invited by looking into a common profile register

    A part of my organization with covered by the license, an admin can delete the internal user. If you want to delete an external user (guest, why not use a common word?). You need to involve IBM Support. In addition, if you have registered a guest ...
    almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to @mention all community members while editing a document

    Currently by default, when editing a community file (document) in IBM Docs, only the community owner appears listed during attempt to @mention another editor within a comment of a document. The current getUserList method used during the Docs Edito...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    HTML/css code instead of text/content shown when wiki pages events are shown in Recent Updates

    Wikis does not send all appropriate HTML information to the Activity Stream for rendering HTML there. Also, the Activity Stream severely limits HTML rendering in AS posts for security 1) create a wiki page within a community 2) add some HTML and C...
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Add custom community widgets to the mobile app community experience

    When you have developed a useful custom community widget, you sure want it to appear on your mobile apps, too. There seems to be a simple and easy opportunity to achieve this: If the org extension model for custom community widgets would allow a...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Turn off document download

    It would be helpful to have an option to turn off the document download option to prevent users from maintaining copies of documents outside of the intended Files location.
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    See IDEACNCTNS-I-601 - not fixed yet!

    EXIF information is ignored by Connections if a picture is taken on mobile and uploaded. Not fixed in current 6.0 CR on server side even if feedback indicates that there was some change in the mobile app to address this.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

    An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the us...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

    Change Embedded WebView behavior

    For some deployments it would be helpful if a link that i tap on opens in in either Safari or another App. For some links still embedded is preferred. Idea: Create a domain whitelist for handing over to Operating System Example Scenario: Today...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Allow for Excell Macros to run in DOCS editor

    Currently Macros are not supported to be run or edited when working on an Excel spreadsheet in DOCS. The request is to allow for Macros already created in the spreadsheet to be able to run when in edit mode in DOCS
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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