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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    uid to show in Directory Search

    Hello HCL CNX Our team is looking for way making the uid showing in the directory search whenever you search for someone. We were able to make some customization like applying it on the searchResults.ftl for it to come up in the profiles by name s...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

    Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    A new function that logs the user's operation contents with the user name and date and time. At least a record of login operations was requested.

    The requested log starts with each user's login operation, and records the create operation and update operation in each application. The Cloud feature of IBM Cloud Connections was logging user operations. A user started using on-premises Connect...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Update notification for Documents I have downloaded.

    Users would like the ability to subscribe to notifications for any document they have downloaded. Currently users may set library or file notifications for files or libraries in communities they are following to individual notification. For users ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Help Application Display Language

    As of now the HCL Connections Help application does not have a default language setting, nor does it change according to the "preferred language" browser setting of users. Please enhance the Help application to: 1) Allow changes of the default lan...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Option in AdminUI for Company Admin to view the overall IBM Connection Smartcloud Size and Overall Items size like Communities or stand-alone files for All users in his organization

    The admin needs an overview / metric for all users and all communities to follow usages and get the used storage.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Allow multiple file and picture upload in status updates

    Our users request to be able to uplaod more that one picture to the status update in order to display images from events etc.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Make it possible to place the Survey app in the (home screen) Community on mobile

    We use the survey to get response on the quality of our community and the use of Connections. To enable this we put the survey on the homepage of our community (‘s). This works for the desktop version of Connections but in the mobile app users don...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 5 Under Consideration

    Profile picture upload dialog confuses people due to the rectangular instead of circled resizing

    The profile pictures are round and not rectangular any more. If a user uploads a new profile picture the preview is still rectangular which confuses people and makes it impossible to find the perfect fit as the image is displayed round after savin...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Like history limited to 25. Requesting the ability to override this limitation

    If more than 25 people like content in Connections (e.g. Status Updates, comments, Blog posts, files, wiki pages, forum topics and replies, etc.) only 25 people are shown in the list. Please remove the limit
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement
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