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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    Display users within "my network" first when using @mention

    When using @mention feature within Connections Cloud, we are requesting that users within "my network" are displayed first so it's easier to find users.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Issue with notifications around People and Community

    Details: The following steps outline the case: - UserA and UserB - UserA follows UserB Issue with notifications around People and Community - UserA has the following notification settings: Content that I am following * People: Daily * Community: I...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Connections Theme in Account settings page under user profile instead of customer's customized UI

    Customer is using customizer for their customizations. Per the documentation, it appears /manage is not referenced in the list of paths/context roots for possible components to be customized. Thus it may not be possible to implement customizations...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Customer would like to merge multiple accounts in IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    Allow users with multiple accounts to log in to Conections Desktop plugin simultaneously for all accounts
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Provide API to register Embedded Experience Org Extensions

    Currently, the only organization extension that can be managed (create, update, delete) via REST API is Community Apps (widgets). We will need to have the same type of API for all organization extension types, namely *Activity Stream's Embedded Ex...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add views in the desktop plugin to show all locked files (in personal and community files!)

    With locking now becoming more prevalent now the desktop plugin allows for automatic locking (great addition!), it would be great to add views to easily identify locked files: Each person should have a view that shows all files locked by them, reg...
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    prevent Elasticsearch custom date view by field from switching values based on date ranges

    Currently when viewing metrics reports, when selecting Custom dates, the view by field will automatically switch to week if the date range you select is 14 days or more. This occurs even if you initially select View by to a value of "day". Reprodu...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version

    Easy Upgrade/Migrate Data to New Version.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Clarification

    Introduce the ability to restrict the use of certain search keywords for searching Connections

    Introduce an option/configurable method for administrators to specify a list of restricted keyword strings that users are not permitted to use to search Connections content. Similar to the blacklisting of certain search keywords in the environment.
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    The possibility to add a new Tab in the Profile Edit Mode

    There is currently no HCL documentation that describes how to create a new tab in the Profile Editor view where you can find the desired profile extensions. Example: Tab Contact Information and a new Custom Edit Tab --> IT Information
    over 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration
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