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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    Improved navigation for Wikis on mobile devices

    This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. There are a number of usability improvements needed for wikis with page hierarchies on mobile devices. These all could potentially be resolved if pr...
    over 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

    More Performance for IBM Connections iOS Application

    Currently, the IBM Connections app is not really performing. Push-Notifications are sometimes delayed or not even though it is set in the mobile-config.xml. Why? Please continue to improve the app on a monthly basis.
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    Option to export all participants of an event

    At the moment on our Connections 5.5 onprem system as well as in the Connections Social Cloud there is no feature or option to export the participants list of an community event. Via API calls we can develop a simple workaround but it would be nic...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    allow an integrated search covering all cnx originated and 3rd party attached content in a single (fulltext) search

    How to add to the seedlist of CNX cloud? Which search tech should we use to be prepared? Solr? Elasticsearch? How will the integration look like?
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Add ability to create a Folder Link to a Community Folder inside Activities

    Behavior when attempting to Create a Folder Link vs Creating a File Link are different. Folder Link does not give the option to link a folder that is contained within the same Community. Files Link does allow for linking of file contained within s...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    LEAP Integration in HCL Connections V8 - Access Rights

    Good day, With V8 it is possible to integrate apps into communities via HCL Leap using iFrame widgets. Unfortunately there is a problem with this. If you want to share the app only with a specific community, you can only select individual users o...
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Additional role “readers” for Community members

    Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Windows Desktop Plugin should be able to search through every Connections folder with the search function

    Currently it is only possible to search within the currently opened folder. The users expect that the search function checks the entire hierarchy instead of one folder. This is the way Windows is doing it so the users expect the same behavior from...
    about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    TinyMCE: @Mentions be available in all applications including Rich content app

    Not all Connections apps support @Mentions in every editor context. Rich content and community description are examples. The provided functiobality should be consitent over all apps
    over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Show Custom Profile Fields in the App

    Currently you can see in the app on a profile under "Info" only "Background" and "About Me". Why are not the custom fields displayed in the app? If you do not use the 2 default fields they will stay empty in the app. My wish would be that all fiel...
    almost 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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