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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    Explorer Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Add Column to show "local draft" in views

    You already provide a right mouse click option to publish local drafts from the Windows Explorer. Unfortunately there is no property which shows the user which files have a local draft within this view (only accessible vie the tray icon at the ver...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities

    Customer would like to have the ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities.. Currently the resource is available through the UI
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Highlight items in new newsletter (digest) and email notifications layouts: person name, content title, etc.

    To improve readability of the new newsletter and email notification design please, please make the topic/post titles and links to topic/blog/etc. more prominent (different color, bold, ...?) as these are really hard to read for our users. Also thi...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    Surveys - display external Guest user with displayname/loginname and not email address

    It should be possible to see the Displayname of the external user against the loginname or emailadresse in a survey answer.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Events Calendar - Define Categories and color

    Have different Colors for different Events. Define "categories" of Events, e.g. Visitor, Business Trip, Holiday.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Way to disable Desktop Plugin blank popup

    CUSTOMER REPORT: We have a problem with the desktop plugin, if the user is offline and starts the computer, a popup will open for the webform based login, with the info that the page can not be loaded.Can this popup be disabled? Or automatically c...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Allow visual customization of FEB/Leap

    With reference to case CS0360260, our customer wants to customize login page for FEB 8.6 (they have full entitlement to FEB which is used for Community Surveys) to match their branding of Connections. This is especally needed for the login page. A...
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Lack of Connections Theme

    Many end users said the design of Connections theme look ugly, boring looks. They compare the Wordpress open social software so many theme designed I guessed.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 6 Already Exists

    Add API support to allow presence indicator support via 3rd party chat integrations

    Add API support to allow presence indicator support via 3rd party chat integrations. AppFusions has done these integrations and can assist on the implementation details on the IBM CNX side - but anyways, this needs to be done on IBM CNX cloud/on-p...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Invite needs to be enhanced - For Guest users we need an allocation to the inviting person

    The information who invited the guest user is for us and for many other customers important and mandatory. When you invite an external, you must be set/pointed as the owner of that external user in order to know who invited who. You must be set re...
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration
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