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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    Ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities

    Customer would like to have the ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities.. Currently the resource is available through the UI
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    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

    Ability for users to configure whether Homepage links open in current or new tabs

    On Homepage, if you click a link, it opens in a new tab instead of opening it on current tab. Need option to allow user to choose whether open a link on Homepage, it opens in a new tab or on current tab.
    about 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    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

    Summarize/Merge multiple content in status updates

    If a user uploads several images or files in one action, a separate status update is generated for each image/file. If there is a large number of images/files, the sequence stream becomes very confusing. Therefore it would be better to merge these...
    over 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Under Consideration

    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

    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

    Way to disable Desktop Plugin blank popup

    CUSTOMER REPORT: We have a problem with the desktop plugin, if the user is offline and starts the computer, a popup will open for the webform based login, with the info that the page can not be loaded.Can this popup be disabled? Or automatically c...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    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
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