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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    Make a multi-tenant Connections

    We are providing Connections on-prem for subsidiaries and need multi-tenancy. We have to provide Connections on-prem and can't move to the cloud. But we have some subsidiaries which want to use connections. The administration would be easier if th...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 9 No Plans to Implement

    Add social media widgets

    To add the social media channels our customers are using a third party tool like elfsight or others. Our customers are complaining about that the competing products like sharepoint have an option (widget) where social media channels can be configu...
    10 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    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

    Connections support for Windows Server 2025

    We have existing Connections customers here in Germany who are planning to migrate to release 8 now. They are running Connections on Windows. Due to their policy they need to use the current Windows Server release 2025 for all new applications. I ...
    5 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    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

    Make the navigation header for 7.0 works for 8.0

    We are aware that with the new update 8.0, most of the navigation elements have been moved to the side. We are currently searching for solutions to either customize the navigation menu or have the option of using a custom navigation header, simila...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Give Administrators ability to set the default Homepage experience either Classic or OrientMe

    Currently the default homepage for users when they click the HOME link in the navbar is the Classic Homepage. Would like the ability for Org Admins to decide between the Classic Homepage or the OrientMe homepage whilst still allowing end users the...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Already Exists

    @Mentions for external Users

    Based on documentation what external users can do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/user/eucommon/c_eucommon_ext_user.html and what external users cannot do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_5.5...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration
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