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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    Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

    In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    I wish notifications of changed pages included red (deletes) / green (adds) delta markers

    I wish when I receive a notification of a page that was updated, that the changed content was highlighted. Red for deletes, green for inserts. Sure you can go into the file info to see this - but since its a change notification, in makes sense tha...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

    Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Embedded / Insert To Dos into contents of Forums, Wikis, Blogs etc.

    In many cases To Dos could be used within another content type. E.g. a response to a forum question could contain a checklist. Allow to Dos to be insert into the contents.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

    So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Include additional details within Community Metrics

    When accessing a Connections Cloud Community's metrics participation -> number of visits "show chart" view the "Community Overall Total" isn't always the total of the community components displayed. Requesting that all community components metr...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Change sorting of comments in blogs

    Currently the sorting for comments in blogs is from new to old. This is very unusual and comments are hard to read. (especially then there are nested comments). Change the sorting from old to new. Or make it configurable.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Handle Confidentiality of Shared Activities in the same Way as for Shared Files

    In case a user shares a personal files or folders with a restricted community, the files/folders are removed as soon as the community is made moderated or public, unless the file/folder is already public. This is a nice compliance feature.This is ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Add likes to content of activities

    all elements in an activity are lacking the ability to like them. Please change this.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet

    Requesting functionality for making the customizations explained in the following document "Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet" be available within IBM Connections Cloud https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYGQH_5.5.0/admin/...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement
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