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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    Creating of externally shared communities should only be possible for community administrators

    In general we do not allow the normal user to create restricted communities and have configured that only users with the role of the community administrators are allowed to create restricted communities. That all users that should be allowed to cr...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Improved search - search for content liked by me

    In the Advanced search I would like the possibility to filter the search results by content I have liked.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Advanced Search - search by multiple tags

    In the Advanced search, it shall be possible to enter in the tag box multiple tags e.g. separating each tags by a blank/ space. While entering an other tag autocomplete shall work as for a single tag. Currently you can only enter one single tag in...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Global Metrics for Communities

    It would be helpful to have a general metric, so as to see the comparison between different communities, in terms of traffic, most-read topics, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Provide an option to sort bookmarks by frequency of usage

    Please implement the option to sort bookmarks not only by popularity (i.e. how wide spread a bookmark is between Connections users), but also by frequency of usage (e.g. clicks per month)— Regarding the click-per-month frequency could be checked p...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    (administrator) Option to set the opening of internet-links to "open in a new tab or window" as default

    Users have problems with navigation in the system after the opened a (external) link to another page from within IBM Connections. Now it is defaulted to opening in de same tab/window. We prefer opening in a new tab/windows so that the user can eas...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Hide (external-)member list for external users as option per community and/or per user

    In some of our communities we have to give external partners access to the data but there are three reasons why we do not wish them to see the member-list and data of the other external members of the community: 1) some external member do not wish...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

    Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Schedule MS Teams Meeting from Connections Events

    Planning Events in Connections is great, but it would be even more useful, if there was an ability to schedule a MS Teams Meeting directly from there. Just like it works in Outlook. Add a button to the 'create event' view and add that meeting invi...
    about 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 No Plans to Implement

    Pinned Folders Should Equal Communities in Windows Explorer

    If the ability to pin communities is developed, then those communities that are pinned should appear in the Windows Explorer list of "Communities". If someone pins a new community it should immediately appear in the Windows Explorer list and if a ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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