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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    Add YYYY-MM-DD as a date format in IBM Docs

    Companies who are becoming more international internally/have clients in other geo locations than their own have to put up with different date format and trying to work out sometimes what is the month and what is the day. Why not have the option t...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    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

    Show the real time changes/modifications in a file that is being edited in Docs

    If a user is sharing a file to another user with a reader role, the user with reader role can only see the changes done on a file by clicking Publish or enabling Auto publish. It would be much helpful if the reader who opens the file in a browser ...
    about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Search person by telephone number

    I got a telephone call from someone I do not have in my contat list. Now I do not know how to find who called me. It would be helpful to have the Option of searching by telephone number, like a phonebook. Thanks
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Already Exists

    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

    Support for Elasticsearch 6.x - Connections 6

    Customer driven, uses Elastic 6 today.
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Future Consideration

    Add (private) notes to a contact / profile

    Like in XING I would like to be able to add private notes to a contact. For example when I have met this person, what we did together etc. I have a lot of contacts and it is hard to remember how I am linked to a person.
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    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

    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
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