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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    Customizer should work on ICEC pages

    The Customizer should work on all pages in Connections. There is a path for the customizer that says "global" and the user expects that this global would also include ICEC. But the customizer is not working on ICEC pages. But a general new design ...
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    Add multi-client capability to Connections on-premise

    We are hosting Connections on-prem for our company and our customers. Today we have the choice to put all the customers on one Cnx infrastructure or to provide a own infrastructure per customer. Both solutions have a lot of disadvantages. So my id...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

    IBM Connections Plug-ins Installer for IBM Notes 10 on MAC

    At this time https://xspy.mybluemix.net/nx - support for Notes v10 for Windows clients only, customer requests IBM Connections Plug-ins for IBM Notes 10 for Mac Client.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Already Exists

    It should be possible to vote for comments

    It should be possible to vote for comments. Especially in posts with lots of comments it would be nice to see the "hot" ones (e.g. youtube) or the possibility to filter for it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Add like possibility to comments

    Please add the possiblity to "like" a comment into the next release
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Members with Reader access in communities should not be able to share files from personal files or from other users into the community,

    When a user is defined as a Member, with reader access for the Files App, he is not allowed to upload files. So far, so good...but if this user upload the file into his personal Files, then he is able to share with the community. Beyond that, this...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Change mail format of Connections Cloud Newsletter (mail digest)

    Is it possible to change the formatting of the email that we receive from Connections Cloud notifications? Decrease the font size, for example. When we get it, it looks like "polluted," and the real message ends up getting lost in the middle. I k...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Allow customizer to react on POST requests.

    Currently customizer just injects code on HTTP GET requests. At least there is at least the forum topic search where the page is presented after a POST request. Currently customizer does not modify this request and therefore not CSS customizations...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Content type filter in advanced search not working as expected by users

    As a user, I would like to use Advanced Search to search for content and exclude specific content type: In Search application, user selects Advanced Search User enters search term and deselects a specific content type (e.g. "Files") from the list ...
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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