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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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Add support for dark mode in Teams integration

The whole Connections integration in Teams is only usable when working with Teams set to default colors. If using the dark mode, many Connections dialogues, (like choosing a Community, choosing a file, etc.) are barely readable. Of course, it woul...
almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

TinyMCE "Code Sample .." in Forums

We noticed that the funcion "Code Sample .." in TinyMCE is missing for Forums when creating Forum Topics. We would appriciate to add this function also there.
almost 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

Title picture on the profile page

Design profile page more beautiful. The possibility to give the user to add his own title picture.
over 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Custom Page for User

A self-assembled page. Our users would like a page that you can put together yourself. A page like Orient.Me only better configurable according to user's request with widgets. It would be best if the administrator could define the widgets that the...
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration

Remove the [ ] in "Platformname"

Customer followed this official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/customize/t_customize_new_template.html it is mentioned, that it's prossible to remove the Platformname. But square brackets are still...
almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

Email notification when an activity entry is moved from one activity to another

We don't get a mail notification when an entry is moved to an other activity in a community. Reproducible scenario:USER A does the following:1) Create community1b) Add User B as member in Community2) Follow Community3) Create Activity AAA in the c...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

RTE option "Link to Files" not available in standalone activity

If you go to a ‘’stand alone’’ activity (edited) there is no ‘’link to connections files’' option. 1. Create a standalone activity 2. Inside the standalone activity, add an entry or todo 3. In the description field, the rich text editor provide...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement