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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    enhance type ahead search on Connections to find people by tags

    The users wishes to search and look for people by tags not only from the directory search. The user will use the Type-ahead search e.g. directly from Homepage via the Search magnifying glass icon, enter a tag and all available results should be di...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    @mention inconsistencies among Connections versions when using copy/paste method to when inserting user name/email rather than typing it out.

    Steps to reproduce:1. Write a list of 3 or 4 names in a text editor (i.e. Notepad++), i.e. Test User1 Test User2 Test User3 2. Navigate to a CKEditor (i.e. status update, blog, forum, etc.)3. Type a "@" symbol in editor.4. Copy and paste the firs...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Simplify activitystream handling

    add the simple actions from the flyout to the activity stream itself, for all notification types. eg. accept, ignore network invitations, commenting on blogs and likes . Open the flyout to like a file or blogpost is just depressing...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    ENHANCEMENT: PERSONAL GROUPS DO NOT SYNCHRONIZE TO THE DEVICE CO NTACTS APPLICATION.

    This was raised in 2014 - has there been any progress on this since then?
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    More informative message and ability to grant permission when trying to share from Photos on Android

    If you try to share an item from Photos on Android, and if you haven't yet granted permission to the Connections Mobile app to access photographs on the device, you will be prompted with the following message: "You do not have permission to access...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Blogs reader on mobile is much better than on desktop - please add a blogs overview either as "Blogs" or in orient me as "the blogs newspaper page"

    In the community overview, Blogs have only their headline and you can expand to a short preview. Since these homepage widgets are far too small to really read in them, you need to switch to the "all posts" page - but there every post is shown in i...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Maintenance announcements posts in a multi language format.

    Maintenance announcements which displays 2 or 3 days before maintenance when user logs in to Connections Cloud are only in English. It would be shown in their preferred language.And Customer Admin would be set the users who display these announcem...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Allow repeating To-Do items in Connections Cloud

    Some people would like to have scheduled weekly or monthly To-Do items. Right now, they have to create a separate To-Do item for every Friday (for example) or the 15th of the month.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Limit access for global moderator only via moderation application

    In the current releases of IBM Connections, global moderators are allowed to access all communities (public and private). If a global moderator is not member of a specific community, he might not be able to access dedicated community applications ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Connection blog filtering based on keywords

    Right now we have moderation, but we would like to have blog moderated based on certain keywords like gun, medicine etc.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Clarification
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