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 and visualize what information is new to you personally

    It would to nice to see immediately what information is new to you personally. E.g.: Display all topics you have already clicked on in another style or color than non-read/ new topics (like emails in Outlook which are bold=unread and normal=read)....
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Non-Members should be able to like or comment on community content

    It should be possible to configure for an IC environment - to make it configurable to have consistent behaviour between moderated and public communities, so that non-members can like and comment on community activity content. The inconsistent beha...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    tag type-ahead for Files be expanded to include public Community Files tags as well as Files tags

    Two days ago I uploaded and tagged a file into a community. In another community I wanted to upload and tag another file with the same tag, but the system is not suggesting the tag I added two days ago. This is a design limitation, only tags added...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Community Metrics displaying "This content is private"

    Please, refer to this Forum thread for further information/screenshots: https://w3-connections.ibm.com/forums/html/topic?id=dabc4ce1-07b9-443e-8c38-d8921862c2c1 When trying to display Metrics for his Community (Most Active Content - View > Wiki...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Browser Back Support

    One page https://w3-connections.ibm.com/wikis/home you do not allow the use of Back on a browser - this is most annoying and there is no reason I can see to do this. Please change this and allow Back.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    ENHANCEMENT: PERSONAL GROUPS DO NOT SYNCHRONIZE TO THE DEVICE CO NTACTS APPLICATION.

    This was raised in 2014 - has there been any progress on this since then?
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    More informative message and ability to grant permission when trying to share from Photos on Android

    If you try to share an item from Photos on Android, and if you haven't yet granted permission to the Connections Mobile app to access photographs on the device, you will be prompted with the following message: "You do not have permission to access...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Add Community Type (single select drop down) to the Start a Community Screen

    Its is necessary in our environment to assign a "Type" or grouping to a community. It would greatly simplify administration if this field were available within the connections community itself. This typing allows administrators to identify the lev...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Enhance error reporting when Common application fails to load a .jar file due to specific modules

    There is nothing in the log file when Common decides it isn't going to load/process a .jar file. In this case, it didn't load the .jar at all, but we've had errors in the past where it didn't like something in the .jar such as referencing an undef...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Add new J2EE security role "privileged-community-creator" for Communities app

    Add a dedicated role named "privileged-community-creator" which can be used to assign the permission to create private communities only. In the current implementation using community policy, you can restrict the community types which users in th...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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