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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    Remove unnecessary information from News Feed

    In many instances, the news feed shows several unnecessary information which simply overloads the news feed. Example 1: My network contact liked a status update. Then why to show also the last 2 comments. Showing last 2 comments would have made se...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Sort Important Bookmarks

    If you add a bookmark to "Important Bookmarks" it will be positioned last place on the community overview. There should be a possibility to sort the order of the Important Bookmarks (afterwards). The Important Bookmarks could be used as an alterna...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Discussion threads place comment replies under orignal message

    Currently replies to messages are displayed chronological instead of under the message the reply is meant for. This makes following discussions, especially if the discussion goes in different directions, difficult. Would it be possible to have the...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Cascading Search in Communities

    As of today, if you search in a community, only the main community's content is being searched. If the community has one or more sub-communities, search doesn't look into their content. My expectation is that search always cascades to sub-communit...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Add Typeahead in related community widget

    At the moment its only possible to paste the link to a community and to provide a title. It would be more convenient if I could just start typeing the community title.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future 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

    Customize the colors of the website

    The app does not adapt to the colors of the website Connections. If the customer does not have blue as a color but green, the app will still be blue. I'd like it better if the app adapts to the design of the website.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Already Exists

    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
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