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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    Improved search - search for content liked by me

    In the Advanced search I would like the possibility to filter the search results by content I have liked.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Advanced Search - search by multiple tags

    In the Advanced search, it shall be possible to enter in the tag box multiple tags e.g. separating each tags by a blank/ space. While entering an other tag autocomplete shall work as for a single tag. Currently you can only enter one single tag in...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Global Metrics for Communities

    It would be helpful to have a general metric, so as to see the comparison between different communities, in terms of traffic, most-read topics, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Provide an option to sort bookmarks by frequency of usage

    Please implement the option to sort bookmarks not only by popularity (i.e. how wide spread a bookmark is between Connections users), but also by frequency of usage (e.g. clicks per month)— Regarding the click-per-month frequency could be checked p...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

    Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

    Extension for search

    For a proper integration of 3rd party apps (community widgets, addons, Box and so on) we need extension point for search! Integrated content needs to appear in search, additional search boxes in widgets are bad and you can't tell users to search s...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

    In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

    Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
    about 5 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

    Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

    So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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