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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    When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

    In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
    almost 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

    Resizable editor for Activities

    Actually the editor in the Activites is small, and not resizable. Please make it resizable or even full-window or detachable.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Cross data center collaboration. Impossible to collaborate with other Connections Cloud users. error messages insufficient / wrong

    My colleague was setting up a community to collaborate with our customer who is also using Connections Cloud. My colleague first entered the contact information and then didn't get the 'Invite to My Network' link, but the 'Invite to Join' instead....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Bookmarks to include description in default view without using "more" option

    Customer would like to have the default view of Bookmarks (in all Communities) to have the description of the bookmark displayed without having to click on the "more" button.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    "Open menu in Microsoft Word application to include ""IBM Connections"" option"

    When opening Word, Excel, Powerpoint, you have to ability to Save as to IBM Connections ( see attachment). But you don't have IBM Connections available when Opening a file in Word, Excel, Etc. Is there a reason why it isn't available in this secti...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Handle confidentiality for sharing files via link from closed community

    With CR4 sharing a file via link has been introduced. While this is a great way of sharing files from communities as well as the Files application, this feature can become an issue once a file is shared from a closed community. Sharing a file via ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Synchronize data's between OnPrem Domino Directory and Connections Cloud Profile in both directions

    Customer wants to have the option to sync information from a Connections Cloud Profiles business card back to their OnPrem directory.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.

    Set email notifications on or off when adding users to Connections.
    almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    How does Connections decide if the Redis traffic should be sent directly or through the tunnel?

    Right now Connections has no implementations, but there is an ongoing development to Provide a configuration option that will allow customers to run all component pack traffic through TLS Implement TLS Enforcement for Component Pack Integratio...
    8 months ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Enhancement Request - Custom widget with similar functionality to TopNews widget

    In ICEC, the TopNews widget uses images and text from a blog post. i.e. similar to a top news story in a newspaper: Image + Headline + Text. When there is an image in a blog that is used by the TopNews widget this works fine. However, if the blog ...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Future Consideration
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