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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    tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin

    Add the tick box to allow you to share with external users to the dialogue when you create a new folder from the IBM Connections Desktop plugin
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Post Content as another Person

    It would be great if you could publish content under someone else's name and/or if the content creator could be changed afterwards. Examples: For blogs, management wants their assistants to be able to publish content under their name. For files, ...
    about 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Under Consideration

    Use Bookmarks to create shorten links

    Bookmarks is a great feature, but it needs to be extend. The possibility to create Shorten Links with bookmarks can bring a create feature to connections. Those links could be accessed internally or externally. Add some statistics can help users t...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Permit users to select nested folders in the Highlights files widget

    The current behavior of the HCL Highlightes files widget only permits you to select the parent folder to display in the widget. This request is to allow users to select subfolders as well. created a Community Navigated to Highlights Select Widgets...
    almost 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

    ICXT - Enhance manage wikis UI to restrict visibility of private wikis

    ICXT shows the wrong visibility for stand-alone wikis. For stand-alone wikis:If you set the wiki rights as:Read: Wiki members onlyEdit: Wiki editors and owners only In ICXT--> Manage --> Wikiit will show the field "Visibility" as "Public for...
    almost 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Fix CNAME violation of DNS specification

    Multiple friends and colleges can't reach the idea lab, because you CNAME record violates the DNS specifications: $ dig connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com ; <<>> DiG 9.11.4-3ubuntu5.4-Ubuntu <<>> connections-ideas.hcltechsw....
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 Already Exists

    More News Channel Configuration Options

    It would be great if it is possible to specify the amount of news a newschannel can show. For example if I have an ICEC page which uses as news source multiple channels from different communities. Then one can only specify the amount in total wh...
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Make the engagement center and Tiny Editors part of the standard Connections that installs with everything else.

    There are too many add-ons and third party tools making connections difficult to install, update, and migrate. Please consolidate all pieces owned my HCL in order to make the administration and maintenance less difficult.
    over 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Teaser image of a blog in Connections mobile app

    Right now you are able to open a list of Blogs (e.g. Community Blogs). If there are images posted in a blog, you have to first open this blog to be able to see them. (there are already descriptions in the overview for the title and the first few...
    over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Desktoplugin allow cut and paste into Connections

    Windows allows us to cut and paste files from folder A to folder B. When trying to cut and paste files into connections via the desktopplugin the files are only copied.It would be useful when the plugin allows the cut and paste, removing the origi...
    over 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement
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