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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    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

    Desktop Plugin - predefined list of communities

    We would like to have a setting to roll-out a predefined fixed list of communities for specific users when installing the desktop plugin. So the users do not have to add communities.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Mouse over URL Links should display Page Previews in small popups

    There should be a simple option to use "Page Previews" when hovering over URL Links, just like in Wikipedia. When a Wiki/Blog reader hovers with their mouse over a URL Link, a small popup should display a content preview of the linked content. A ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Hide input fields for readers

    Readers in a community have the ability to write a comment or a micro-blog entry. But they can not publish/save it. So why is their the possibility to use the input field. For a greater user experience these fields should be hidden in correlation ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future 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

    RTE in status update (post text field)

    Currently the status won't accept rich text (that include formating, pictures, etc).
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    New Design V8

    In V8 there should be a new design. Please make this design optional and without component pack. Also users who do not have the component pack installed in the environment should OPTIONALLY enjoy the new design of V8. Perhaps it is possible to cha...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Need Connections Desktop Plugin to support Windows on Hyper-V

    We found some features such as "My Drive" doesn't work on Win 10 on Hyper-V. After checking with Support. Hyper-V is not supported. We have client machine that is on Hyper-V. We need Hyper-V to be supported by Connections Desktop Plugin.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    enhance refresh for status update ibm connection plugin for notes

    Request a config settings to force a immediately refresh or a time setting (every 10-15 min) to trigger this refresh.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Refresh (F5) menu icon/item for Status Updates in Connections Notes plugin

    In the Connections Notes plugin, Activities has a refresh icon and the menu for Files sidebar panel also contains a item 'Refresh F5'. But, it is not so present for the Status Updates Panel (only on right mouse click). Therefore we'd like to reque...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement
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