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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    Completely remove all of the old stack from Connections by version 7.0

    As a business partner, we find it hard to sell the current version of Connections because customer need to provide 2 kind of hardware (one for WAS and another for the Component Pack). In fact we have one customer who repeatedly delay their planned...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

    In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

    All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

    Automatical import of content from .html file into Connections wikis

    Our team does several tool version releases per year. for each release we update the content of the documentation (e.g. user manuals) using an automate script (we write the content as text in the script, and the script generates .html files), beca...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Increase number of custom profile fields limit (IBM Connections Cloud)

    We are using custom fields on profiles (IBM Help: Customizing your organization > Updating user profiles). Currently we use 8 of them and there is a limit of 10 custom fields.Can this limit be extended? On-prem you do not have a limitation and ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Remove self-updates from Updates stream

    I would like to have the possibility in my Updates my own Status Updates or Blog updates removed from the feed.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Please provide WebHooks for all of the Event SPI

    I wish to be able to implement WebHooks for all of the Event SPI and make it consumable as queue messages
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    Able to search Guest user within directory.

    There is a function within Connections Cloud / SmartCloud that allows external contacts to be added so that customer can use the collaboration tools. These are Guest / House accounts. When searching our directories, we are unable to find these acc...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow pronunciation file in Connections user profile to be played in browser

    After uploading a pronunciation file to the Pronunciation tab in the Connections profile save and go to the profile page. Click on the speaker icon next to the user name to get the pronunciation file. When clicking on it it downloads immediately w...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 4 Future Consideration

    Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

    The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review
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