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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    Video in a powerpoint cannot be read with the preview

    A video is inserted in a powerpoint. At the preview, we don't even know there is a video : the slide is empty. Seen in Connections on prem.
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

    Keep surveys responses ID as sequential

    Keep surveys responses ID as sequential Currently the ID of the survey responses are not sequential, it can change if the internal block of IDs is restarted.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Mail Merge

    Could a mail merge agent be incorporated?
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add Community Manager (person field or Role) Primary point of contact - owner responsible for maintenance and community content

    In our organization we have several thousand connections communities. As part of our monthly maintenance tasks we contact community owners assigned to communities who have no activity for 90 days and ask them to take action to revitalize or remove...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Admin can export all Communities to an excel file instead of txt file

    Refer to below link, we can export all communities to a txt file: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/checkingin/entry/List_all_Communities_and_their_activity?lang=en_ph This creates a file called all.txt in the current directory....
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    Community quick add content and title to Apps

    Ability to quickly add content/members with out leaving community overview page Example: Quick add members Quick add bookmarks .... Files .... Events Dynamically change app title without new pop up window. More "add content" & "edit" icons a...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhancement: respondents for Community Survey need to check own response.

    Respondents are able to check the summary of Survey if "Who can view results - All community users" is enabled. However, there is no way to check what is the own response.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    No image preview in the "Add Files" dialogue

    The new Gallery widget which came with IC5 is quite nice.But when try to create different Folders and add images to that,There is no preview in the "Add Files" dialogue and so it's prettytough to identify a specific picture without knowing the fil...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Include related communities in search results within a community

    If you search a community for a given term, and there is a related community identified with that term in its name, search results will not display this related community. For example: Create public community Create second public community and na...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Show additional contact information with fields automatically expanded

    As a Connections user I would like to see all available contact data (incl. E-Mail address and physical address / Location) in the profile of my contact, so I know immediately how / where to reach him and so I can copy these Information when forwa...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement
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