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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    Named Entity Recognition (NER) functionality in HCL Connections

    Named entity recognition (NER) helps you easily identify the key elements in a text (or topic), like names of people, places, brands, monetary values, and more. Extracting the main entities in a topic helps sort unstructured data and detect import...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    ICEC News Community Logo

    We use the ICEC Slider Widget for presenting news. There are three posts visible. 1. Just text is added to the post. There is no link and no image. In the widget the Community Logo should be visible. This example is working as expected. 2. An im...
    over 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    IBM Connections Customizer not working with IBM Mail Verse and IBM Connections Engagement Center

    Steps to reproduce:1. Get the "Link to file" of a community file2. Put that file into an email3. Open that file with Mail Verse4. Open the file and verify if customizer modifications or visual update (aka Periscope) are loaded which will not be th...
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration

    Stopping legacy Activities application

    There is nothing in the documentation that we could find that would indicate that it is possible to run Boards without Activities running. It seems as though you should be able to, but it turns out you can't. Is there any way of stopping legacy Ac...
    about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

    Change Notification Preferences for all users (existing and new) via command or in the GUI

    This would be usefull because there would be no need to change the records in the Connections Databases directly for existing users. By changing the Preference values in " notification-config.xml ", you are changing the default values for the new ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    IBM Connections Further Develop

    Please further develop the IBM Connections Windows Server versions. We do not want connections running on linux server systems only.
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Future Consideration

    IBM Docs Colour Picker

    It would be very useful to implement a "Colour Picker" for a bigger range of colours.
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Templates in all components

    As a user I want to have templates in all components of Connections (not only wikis, but also blogs, forums, activities, ideas, etc.). I want to be able to create templates on my own to be able to reuse and edit them. I want to use them within my ...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to upgrade CKEditor while keeping Connections version

    It'd be helpful if there is a way to upgrade CKEditor while keeping the Connections version. Currently, the only way to upgrade CKEditor is to upgrade the entire Connections deployment.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Remove Navigation bar on bottom of ICEC Pages on Mobile

    If you are using ICEC on Mobile, there is always a grey navigation bar on the bottom of the page, which is taking up a lot of space. This navigation is not needed and should be removed.
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 3 Already Exists
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