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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    Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

    Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Numerical Characters Should be Translated When the Language is Changed

    When a Connections user changes languages from English to a language such as Japanese or Arabic, the words get translated, but the numbers do not. For example, when looking at the Communities Members widget in the Overview page you see "View All (...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enable TLS 1.3 scan support for applications

    Support for TLS 1.3 should be added so that applications using TLS 1.3 can be scanned. Currently there is only support for up to 1.2 and we cannot connect to our application to perform dynamic scans.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    No Interactive for the shared article event from Intranet

    ​With the new intranet, we have a better connection between Intranet and Connections, and one of the function is that we can share the intranet article easliy through the "share in Connections " button. but the problem is , for all those shared ar...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    References to ordinary messages

    ​Why do we get permlinks for forum entries but not for all Connections entries — even comments? Technically this shouldn't make such a big difference.IBM should really rework there linking strategy. Currently, it's... hm, let's say heteronegeous.....
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Link to Connections past events

    ​I would like the possibility to have a link to Connections Events in a Community that will also open with the "show Past events" filter activated.Currently this option is not saved in the url, so user might miss this point.
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Events .ics file shall contain a link to the Connections event

    Following reasons for doing this:· Once someone has imported the event to its calendar, links will not work (if it is imported by ics — not by feed). [Looks like a Lotus Notes issue?] So it is nice to open the event in ConNextand click in the even...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    View the activity of my network people on their Connections profile

    ​I would like to be able to see all the activity (blog entries, likes, file uploads, etc) for people in my network when I go to their profile page. Right now, if I access someone`s profile I can see all my notifications, which is the same as going...
    almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

    Links and Files under one ICEC widget

    Have one widget in ICEC that can display both e-forms(links) and pdf files under rather than two separate widgets.
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 No Plans to Implement

    Be able to see if a guest is invited by looking into a common profile register

    A part of my organization with covered by the license, an admin can delete the internal user. If you want to delete an external user (guest, why not use a common word?). You need to involve IBM Support. In addition, if you have registered a guest ...
    almost 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement
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