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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    Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

    There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    A notification or mail will be sent on birthdays

    You should receive a notification or e-mail if the person has a birthday to follow.
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Integration of other web chat clients like Skype for Business

    Currently, only Sametime version 9 can be integrated into HCL Connections. It would be fantastic if you could also integrate other web chat clients in Connections with presence display. Examples would be Skype for Business, Rocketchat.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    uid to show in Directory Search

    Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Add Connections content to HCLSoftware U

    Please add Connections content to HCLSoftware U. Connections is really versatile, we need extensive examples / howto's / best practices / certification Because the posibilities are endless, starting users would immensely benefit from more examples...
    almost 2 years ago in 14. Documentation 1 Needs Review

    Profile picture upload dialog confuses people due to the rectangular instead of circled resizing

    The profile pictures are round and not rectangular any more. If a user uploads a new profile picture the preview is still rectangular which confuses people and makes it impossible to find the perfect fit as the image is displayed round after savin...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections 6.0 support for TDI/SDI 7.2

    TDI/SDI 7.2 should be added to Connections 6.0 future releases as TDI 7.1.1 has gone out of support.
    almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Add Like and Comment functionality to embedded experience.

    Today third party widgets can be added as embedded experience in the Activity Stream of IBM Connections. Today users can interact with the widget but can not like or comment within Connections about the shown data. Idea: Create a possibility to en...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Have a "share to zoom chat" file action in cnx files

    Just like the well adopted "share file to WWS" feature, we would like to see a "share file to zoom chat" feature. It would actually be enough to post a cryptic URL of the file to the zoom chat since it is capable of urlunfurling and displays a pre...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Search person by telephone number

    I got a telephone call from someone I do not have in my contat list. Now I do not know how to find who called me. It would be helpful to have the Option of searching by telephone number, like a phonebook. Thanks
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Already Exists
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