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 "Open in App" button when a page is viewed on a mobile browser (Connections OnPrem)

    A user hits a link that renders a connections page. When that page comes from Connections Cloud, it's an universal link and the mobile app will be launched. Universal links are "cloud only" and cannot be used in onPrem installs. Idea: Why not gene...
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Support IBM Plex

    IBM Connections should support IBM Plex for the IBMers who use it. More information for IBMers about this here: https://apps.na.collabserv.com/blogs/connections-features/entry/Support_and_display_IBM_s_corporate_font?lang=en_us
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Rich text editor for surveys

    A rich text editor (like in other apps) would be also useful in the app "surveys" e.g. to insert links, pictures and more.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to move custom fields

    In activities, it is possible to add custom fields. If you want another order, you must delete the field and start again. If they can be moved, they do not need to be deleted
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    reply by email to forum for MT

    Please implement reply by email to forum for Connections MT
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Apache Server as the Web Server

    Customer would like Apache server to be be supported with HCL Connections. Currently only IBM IHS is officially supported.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Make salutation in Invite as a config option

    At the moment Invite calculate the salution for the start page from the displayname (split by space and use first part of the string). The displayname is not always formatted as "Givenname Lastname" it often contains parts like external, team, org...
    over 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Notify other People in Wiki

    This features is already included in Blogs. But you can't notifiy people with a e-mail or in the Notification bell in Wikis. Many of our users want this features. It would be very useful!
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Business Owners the ability to export information on Guest Users from Communities with in their organization

    Create a mechanism where all Smart Cloud Org Owner(s) & Business Owners have the ability to export a full and complete list of all members within their own Smart Cloud communities which will include the full list of members and their informati...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    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
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