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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    Share community file with other communities

    Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
    almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add multi-client capability to Connections on-premise

    We are hosting Connections on-prem for our company and our customers. Today we have the choice to put all the customers on one Cnx infrastructure or to provide a own infrastructure per customer. Both solutions have a lot of disadvantages. So my id...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    IBM Connections Plug-ins Installer for IBM Notes 10 on MAC

    At this time https://xspy.mybluemix.net/nx - support for Notes v10 for Windows clients only, customer requests IBM Connections Plug-ins for IBM Notes 10 for Mac Client.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Already Exists

    It should be possible to vote for comments

    It should be possible to vote for comments. Especially in posts with lots of comments it would be nice to see the "hot" ones (e.g. youtube) or the possibility to filter for it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Take Original Meta Data When Uploading Files Via Browser View

    When uploading a file via IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows the original meta data (creation data, original author) are take with it. When uploading a file via web interface, Connections takes the date of uploading the file in...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Add like possibility to comments

    Please add the possiblity to "like" a comment into the next release
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Change mail format of Connections Cloud Newsletter (mail digest)

    Is it possible to change the formatting of the email that we receive from Connections Cloud notifications? Decrease the font size, for example. When we get it, it looks like "polluted," and the real message ends up getting lost in the middle. I k...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Allow customizer to react on POST requests.

    Currently customizer just injects code on HTTP GET requests. At least there is at least the forum topic search where the page is presented after a POST request. Currently customizer does not modify this request and therefore not CSS customizations...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

    As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review
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