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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    Request for PROF_SOURCE_URL DB field to be increased from 256 chars

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: The PROF_SOURCE_URL column in the EMPLOYEE table of the PEOPLEDB is VARCHAR(256) characters.However, some customers have complex LDAP search filters. This means that when they perform a TDI synch using this filter, it fails ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Get notified after your contribution to wiki, blog, forum, etc.

    Scenario: Let us assume, I find a colleague's blog post interesting I write a comment about it - that means I'm somehow connected to the content Therefore, it would be helpful if I get notification if anyone else also comments to the blog after my...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to recommend/like ideas also

    As on today, it is not possible to recommend/like ideas. This will be an important feature if I found a good idea and would like to recommend (like it is now for blog posts or wiki pages) to my network, for voting. As on today, I have to do it man...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Preview option for posts on Forums

    At the moment, the Forums in IBM Connections only allows Save or Cancel when creating a new thread or replying to one. I'd like to see a Preview option added. There is already a Preview option here on the Ideation Blog when making posts, so let's ...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Image is not being deleted from forum app

    create a forum topic and include a screenshot via copy and paste the image is uploaded into the forum automatically edit your post and delete the image even the image is gone from the post, the image is still associated with the forum topic and ca...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections 5.5. Notes Plugin Status updates

    In the section "status updates" you can search for a Community/Person to follow. After a restart of the Notes client the selection is empty and has to be selected again. The selection should be kept and saved on memory.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Bundle Connections with all supporting 3rd party product and sell it with 1 part number

    There are several third party products that enhance the usage / adoption of IBM Connection, such as : Panagenda Connections Expert, give meaningful statistic to whether your adoption is successful Connections Administration Toolkit, provide UI fo...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop Plugin - method for saving the settings (eg communities added)

    Preserving user's community list in IBM connections Desktop PluginWe would like to have a method for saving the settings (eg communities added) from one system and applying them to another. Users who are members in many different communities, wou...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Flies Plugin - Highlight External Content (Communities, People, Files)

    Please improve the Files Plugin to clearly highlight external content, such as external communities, external files, external users. The current user experience is not consistent with the webbrowser and there is a risk that a file explorer user sh...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    request a custom search interface for the desktop plugin

    Please implement a search interface in the desktop plugin to get better search results. At this time the search failed with two different kinds of word separators ("_" and space) in a file name. Fixing this in the plugin would require implementing...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration
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