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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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Fix CNAME violation of DNS specification

Multiple friends and colleges can't reach the idea lab, because you CNAME record violates the DNS specifications: $ dig connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.4-Ubuntu <<>> connections-ideas.hcltechsw....
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

In HCL Connections Control image width via setting in blogs-config.xml.

It appears the max default image width in Connections is 700 pixels, and while the value can be changed via customisation to blog.css there is a risk that this will be overwritten during patching, restores or upgrades. It would be better to have t...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Force the usage of Tags for different Connections App

It would be nice if there was the possibility to activate an option that blogs, wiki or forum entries can only be created with 1-2 tags. (Maybe depents on Community settings) If necessary, also a checkbox that you want to create it without tags.
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 No Plans to Implement

Add additional view/filter to connections forums "my questions"

As a connections user I want to have quick access to the questions I've asked in a forum. This could be realized via an additional tab beside Topics, Open Questions, Answered Questions, My Questions This is an user idea which got 100 votes in ...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Custom Page for User

A self-assembled page. Our users would like a page that you can put together yourself. A page like Orient.Me only better configurable according to user's request with widgets. It would be best if the administrator could define the widgets that the...
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration

Remove the [ ] in "Platformname"

Customer followed this official documentation: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/admin/customize/t_customize_new_template.html it is mentioned, that it's prossible to remove the Platformname. But square brackets are still...
almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

Email notification when an activity entry is moved from one activity to another

We don't get a mail notification when an entry is moved to an other activity in a community. Reproducible scenario:USER A does the following:1) Create community1b) Add User B as member in Community2) Follow Community3) Create Activity AAA in the c...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

RTE option "Link to Files" not available in standalone activity

If you go to a ‘’stand alone’’ activity (edited) there is no ‘’link to connections files’' option. 1. Create a standalone activity 2. Inside the standalone activity, add an entry or todo 3. In the description field, the rich text editor provide...
almost 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement

Activities from Template - Notification

The notifications in "My Notifications" are correct. On creating from template and on changing the action entry user will be notified but even if I change the due date in a action the action owner gets no new entry in "Action required" view. Hence...
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Needs Clarification

Alarms from Connections events in Notes calendar

For the integrations from Connections for Notes where you can add community calendars, is it possible that these would trigger alarms, or could be set up that way int he same way regular calendar events can be set up in Notes preferences to create...
almost 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement