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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    Preview option for all versions of a file in Files Application

    Currently we have "Download , Restore and Delete" options for older versions of files in "Files" applications. We would need "Preview" option also for all versions of a file.
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

    Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Action to flag content as outdated (data quality)

    As IBM Connections User I would like to find current information and up to date content. If I find content on our IBM Connections which seems outdated to me or I can identify it as old information, I would like to flag it with "outdated content" a...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to create wiki pages based on templates. Possible with ckeditor, please enable as minimum.

    Possibility to create wiki pages based on templates. Possible with ckeditor, please enable as minimum.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    Most Used/followed Tags

    Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Assign Activity / ToDo to group

    There is no option to assign an activity / ToDo to a group. Only single people can be selected.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Blog article with expiration date

    We publish news in blogs. It would be great if a Blog article has an expiration date. Maybe with a selection whether the article should be archived or deleted.
    over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    Improve general performance of the connections web application

    Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with textbox.io

    Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the textbox.io editor. If you edit a wiki page and click on + icon the "Bookmark" button is not available but exists in blogs, forums, etc. Our users request it. The users need the functionality ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    CentOS Support

    Because of the high license fees my company tries to get away from RedHat, but the HCL applications unfortunately still require it. HCL Connections, including all components, seems to work fine on CentOS. But it is not supported. There are just mi...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Already Exists
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