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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    View/Edit .RTF Files on Android

    Customer uses .RTF files as storage format for Word Documents. If you try to edit them (although this is an office standard file format!!!) you can not do that with Connections (editor). You can just create a simple rtf file e.g. with "wordpad" on...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

    If community widgets are hidden option should be available to hide from community navigation bar

    If a user decides to hide one or more of his community widgets he should have the option to also have the specific widgets not shown on the community navigation bar.
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

    Allow selection of commnuity application during creation

    When talking to end users that struggle using connections, it is mostly because they are overwhlemed when entering a community because it has too many apps and they don't need all. As the decision on what apps are added by default is system wide, ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    User should get email notification when other user updated the content of community.

    Steps to illustrate request: 1. User A logins to IBM Connections with valid credentials 2. Navigate to any Community 3. Update the content of another user (User B) 4. Verify that User B receives an email notification when User A (or any other user...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

    Extend mobile navigation

    When I search in Connections mobile and get e.g. a wiki page as a result, it would be great to get a navigation option to the wiki overview. Reproduce Search something in mobile, click the wiki page. You get Title Wiki Name Pagetext The wiki n...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Sync_all_dns by LDAP Group

    An organization has a large number of LDAP profiles, which causes sync_all_dns to take an extended period to run. However, only a subset of users in one LDAP group use Connections. Sync_all_dns would be much more efficient if it could be run again...
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

    Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Editing multi-day events in Communities

    Create an event in the community events widget and make it a multi day event, then save. Edit the entry and choose to edit the series. The fields to choose which days to repeat cannot be changed, those are greyed out.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Community events - receive an invitation from mail systems like Domino, Exchange

    Community events is a nearly closed calendar which can be added to a mail/calendar tool like Notes. What about accepting a calendar invitation? Allow mail systems to address a Community Events widget.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Connections Mobile App: Show content depending on the type of device (private or business)

    In our company less than 50% of the employees do have a business smartphone. We use Microsoft Intune to manage our business devices. Now we would really like to provide the app to private phones as well but with limited content. From private phone...
    over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement
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