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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    Ability for Org admins to control their guest users extensions and third-party apps access

    Organizations administrators have control over their internal user's features/extensions/apps however, this is not the case for guest users. Currently, the IBM Guest House organization has full control over guest users. Org admins wish to have add...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    support for underscore inside bookmark URL

    At the moment URL containing _ (Underscore) in the domain name cannot be accepted as a bookmark in Connections. But there are several websites that do have underscores - e.g. HCL Notes and Domino wiki (https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com ) Supporting...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    How to reset user password when they forgot password?

    How to reset user password when they forgot password? iNotes and Notes both user they forgot password feature is not available. How to reset his/her password?
    almost 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 No Plans to Implement

    Modify date range of Status Update Search result

    It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
    almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Round profile pictures not consistent through all apps

    With IC5.5 the profile pictures are round instead of rectangular, but the new design is not consistent through all apps/components. Please make it consistent. E.g. on the business cards of people on the different apps/widgets on the My Page on the...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Connections Invite - start the process from a community

    Please enhance the feature of Community Invite which was introduced in V6.5: allow the process to start also from a community - perhaps from the community actions menu or by a button on community members page "invite new external user into this co...
    about 6 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Offer choice of context for automatic tag suggestion

    When adding tags to a blog or wiki page, the automatic suggestions I get when I start typing in the field currently seem to be restricted to the context: I only get suggestions for tags that were already used in this blog or wiki. This can make se...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support for Outlook as Feed reader

    When using a feed and subscribing to it in MS Outlook, it is not possible to open the related page. View article does not work. It makes the usage of Outlook as Feed reader for Connections content useless.
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Easy tagging people by clicking on existing tags

    I can see which tags are assigned to a profile. If I want to contribute also and emphasize on an existing tag, I need to write it or copy it. My idea is to have the possibility to click on the tag itself and with that action I added it to the prof...
    about 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

    Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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