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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    Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

    When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

    I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting tas...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Update the Connections logo in the daily newsletters (Connections MT)

    The daily newsletters from Connections MT are great, but the old Connections logo are in them. As I understand it, it is in the code?
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

    Recognize Apostrophes When URLs Are Pasted in an Activity Stream Entry

    When you copy and paste a URL that has an apostrophe into a status update, for example https://www.example.com/jdoe's_example_url everything after the apostrophe is plain text instead of part of the link. This breaks the URL. In the future, we wou...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    I'd like the ability to share blogs with other communities.

    When multiple business areas are affected by a change, I'd like the ability to post a blog and share it as a blog on the other impacted communities.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Preview file rather than download file when clicking on file name in wiki

    As a Connections user, I want a file to be shown in Connections rather than being downloaded when I click on file name in Wiki because the purpose of Connections is to collaborate on files rather than distributing them to client computers. When a ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Use proper h1 heading for blog entrys instead of h4

    The titles in the blog app (https://<connections-hostname>/blogs/) uses a h4 heading, as you can see here: <td class="lotusFirstCell entryContentContainerTD blogsWrapText"><a name="xyz" id="xyz"></a> <h4> <a id="e...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Allow formatting, tables, screenshots etc. in comments

    As an IBM Connections user, I want to be able to use all formatting options that the editor provides for creating an entry in a Wiki/ Blog, Activity or wherever for commenting that entry as well because the current limitation to text-only comments...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    No mobile push notifications on api mention and answer although configured in notification settings, just browser push.

    PROBLEM:User does not get push notification on mention event over API.No mobile push notifications on api mention and answer although configured in notification settings, just browser push. Ref: https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpAPIVie...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Table of Contents (TOC) macro for Blogs

    I would like a TOC macro for Blogs as we have for Wikis.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration
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