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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    Sametime integration

    Allow easy, out of box, server-side integration between Connections and Sametime onprem. All names shall be decorated with online presence indicator and there should be a “who is online” widget in communities.
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Future Consideration

    Make COMMUNITY VIEWER a Permanent Community Feature in Connections!

    Community Viewer Allows end users to See All the Communities they Follow or Belong to, and to organize All their communities by in grid or list form, to be able to access your Most needed, and to quickly Launch to a specific area in the Community-...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 20 Future Consideration

    I wish I could save DRAFTS of wiki pages - before saving as published

    So I can draft and edit - for days - a page that is not yet public. (another way and maybe better way to handle this is allow me to restrict view permissions to myself or a small group) (this is purposeful by the user - not the auto-save ability)
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 10 Under Consideration

    Allow IBM Connections Cloud Offering to support rich text fields with the "allow-forms" parameter in iframe html syntax

    Based on discussions with the IBM Connections Level 3 Support Team, the Cloud install of IBM Connections does not support the "allow-forms" parameter of iframe HTML syntax in rich text fields. The application "strips" those parameters from the HTM...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement

    General Integration of GroupChat services (MS Teams, Slack, Sametime, etc.)

    When identifying an expert on Connections directly start a chat from the user profile and/or profile business card.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration

    Display Connections Events and Activities in Notes/Verse calendar

    Allow simple, out of box integration of Events and Activity deadlines with Domino based calendars in Notes/Verse without the need to create a calendar overlay which works only in Notes. A single checkbox shall do all the work and populate user’s p...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app

    I tested this on Connections 6.0 environment and community owners are able to see the "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app.This behavior changed in version 7.0 but our users are still using the old Overview page as commu...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Needs Clarification

    Develop Integration with other Collaboration Platforms (O365, G-suite)

    Connections is social enterprise software, and it does that well. Connections is enterprise collaboration software, and it does that well. Connections is not so good at personal/small team collaboration, where O365 and G-suite excel....and have th...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 3 Under Consideration

    Changing of Font format style of @mention tags in Tiny Editor

    Currently, changing of font format style for @mention tags of users in CKEditor is possible but not in Tiny Editor. It would be good if changing of font format style (italic, bold, underline, font size, font style) for @mention tags in Tiny Editor...
    6 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

    Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
    11 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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