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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    Not possible to filter for components (forum, wiki, blog) in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to filter or narrow down the events/activities in Orient Me by component (forum, wiki, blog) so that it is more easier for me to find relevant content. Use case: I know somebody posted an interesting blog post recently,...
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add functionality to follow or search tags in Orient-Me

    It is not possible to follow tags anymore. Also, tags are not clickable and searchable.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Allow to discover new content that you are not following already

    With Orient me, the filter criterias have changed from to only people communities and tags. Filtering for additional services is not possible any longer.
    about 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Members with Reader access in communities should not be able to share files from personal files or from other users into the community,

    When a user is defined as a Member, with reader access for the Files App, he is not allowed to upload files. So far, so good...but if this user upload the file into his personal Files, then he is able to share with the community. Beyond that, this...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    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

    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    E-mail notifications only from individual communities

    Currently I get from each community I follow email notifications. For the future, it would be better if I could again choose from which communities I get e-mail notifications. It can also be because I only want to follow a community, but do not wa...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Already Exists

    Have a "share to zoom chat" file action in cnx files

    Just like the well adopted "share file to WWS" feature, we would like to see a "share file to zoom chat" feature. It would actually be enough to post a cryptic URL of the file to the zoom chat since it is capable of urlunfurling and displays a pre...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability for users to configure whether Homepage links open in current or new tabs

    On Homepage, if you click a link, it opens in a new tab instead of opening it on current tab. Need option to allow user to choose whether open a link on Homepage, it opens in a new tab or on current tab.
    about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review
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