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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    Customer to have links open in new tabs

    The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
    over 2 years ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review

    More Performance for IBM Connections iOS Application

    Currently, the IBM Connections app is not really performing. Push-Notifications are sometimes delayed or not even though it is set in the mobile-config.xml. Why? Please continue to improve the app on a monthly basis.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Rename Pinned to Favorites in Files

    The "Pinned" term is confusing and incorrect. A pinned item usually refers to something that is automatically shown at the top of the list (like it is used in forums for instance) but in Files "Pinned" files are listed in a separate view. This beh...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    Migration tool for folders/files of a user

    A migration solution to move folders/files from one user to another, without deleting that user, OR to other options such as a moving that content to a community or download everything to local disks in order to delete it from the user. The abilit...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration

    The ability to chose the extension of an exported profile photo

    In Connections V8, if exporting Profiles photos by using dump_photos_to_files.sh , the exported photos are with ".dat" format, this can be only used to import to another Profile database. Need Connections to have the ability to export Profile phot...
    8 months ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Show Custom Profile Fields in the App

    Currently you can see in the app on a profile under "Info" only "Background" and "About Me". Why are not the custom fields displayed in the app? If you do not use the 2 default fields they will stay empty in the app. My wish would be that all fiel...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Zoomfunction in Wikis on Mobile App

    In the Connections app you can zoom in the blog to see better content. Why not in the wikis? In wikis are mostly photos that unfortunately can not see, because you can not zoom. Please modify!
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Already Exists

    Enable "Edit on Desktop" for all file types and not only for these with the ability to be edited in Docs

    Please extend the option given by the option "enable round trip edit in the highway service /connections/config/connections/config/highway.main.settings.tiles" to chose to edit a file on the local device by launching it trough the Desktop PlugIns ...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Allow Automatic backup of ICEC pages in IBM Connections Cloud

    This is a request to enable functionality to automatically backup of ICEC pages in IBM Connections Cloud. Currently, the only option is to manually backup pages by exporting them, but this can easily result in pages being missed or lost due to use...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 No Plans to Implement

    When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

    In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
    almost 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review
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