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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    Enhancement request: Improvement of search quality - Expression variations of Katakana characters of Japanese language

    This is enhancement request from Yachiyo Industry who is using Connections Social Cloud and ICEC on Cloud. Kata-kana characters of Japanese language has some expression variations. For example, a word "A project manager" has 8 expression variatio...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Add possibility edit status updates

    Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Stop to follow your own contents changed by yourself

    In many cases I get notified that I changed my own content. This is not helpful. Please surpress these kind of notifications.
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Future Consideration

    Display User profile page when clicking user icon from important bar

    In Connections 7, when you have Orient Me and the ITM bar (on top) and you click on a user icon, the profile of the user opens. In Connections 8, the user icon does nothing, you can try to click the tiny icons around the profile picture in ITM to ...
    about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Adding option to "Accept or Decline" a request to join a moderated community in Homepage Top Updates

    If a user requests to join a moderated community, the owner of the community can only accept or decline the request in Latest Updates. This option is also helpful if it is added to Homepage Top Update/Activity Stream.
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration

    Include the IBM developed System Applications from Portal legacy in every port to HCL DX containerized.

    There are about a dozen IBM created system applications included in WebSphere Application Server (ND) that could be inadvertently dropped if and when WAS is replaced by a non-royalty JVM like Liberty. Our company relies on one or two of these apps...
    3 months ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

    The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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