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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    Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

    IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to copy/paste @mentions

    Right now all @mention resources need to be added separately (every time) for @mention to work. Copy/Paste of several @mention at once, is not recognized at something valid. Copy /paste of series of @mention should work at least in major browsers.
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Hashtags in Comments

    In responding to a blog entry, I frequently feel the need to use hashtags, for everyone else to have an easier search when communicating. The problem is, the hashtags in comments are not recognised as hashtags, and could not be searched and found ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

    in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
    over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    The About section in the mobile does not currently support editing on the mobile device.

    Edit profile not allowing user to update “About” section. The sections below look editable, but are not editable. Also, would like for same fields available on Mobile app where we see it on WEb UI while editing profile: Job title FaxDept n...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Editor(s) - Convert pasted Notes-Links into real Notes-Links (Notes://)

    In case you past a valid Notes Link (document, view, application, anchor) into the editor in IBM Connections the result looks like this (example is a view link, al private date is replaced by "x"): xxxx xxxxxxxxxx <NDL> <REPLICA xxxxxxxx...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Utilize the Users Timezone When creating / viewing Events

    Currently events does not respect the users timezone so events are displayed in the Connections Server time and not converted to the appropriate time for the end user even when exporting to the Notes calendar ... this makes the tool unusable for l...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Upload documents from mobile to community

    When uploading documents or pictures from mobile to Cloud, yu can't upload to a community, only to my files. it is nearly impossible to get the document into the right community, without a lot of "hacking".
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 6 Under Consideration

    Invite whole community to an event

    Our users are asking for a feature that allows to invite all community members (with one click) to an event. They wish for this function to be placed within the user interface of the event app. As of now, it is only possible to invite all communit...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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