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 Like and Comment functionality to embedded experience.

    Today third party widgets can be added as embedded experience in the Activity Stream of IBM Connections. Today users can interact with the widget but can not like or comment within Connections about the shown data. Idea: Create a possibility to en...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    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

    E-mail notifications only from individual communities

    Currently I get from each community I follow email notifications. For the future, it would be better if I could again choose from which communities I get e-mail notifications. It can also be because I only want to follow a community, but do not wa...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Already Exists

    Outlook plug-in Support for syncing edited files back to connections

    When one opens a file from connections in outlook and then edit it, the change won't be sync back to connections.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

    Have a "share to zoom chat" file action in cnx files

    Just like the well adopted "share file to WWS" feature, we would like to see a "share file to zoom chat" feature. It would actually be enough to post a cryptic URL of the file to the zoom chat since it is capable of urlunfurling and displays a pre...
    about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 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

    Explorer Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Add Column to show "local draft" in views

    You already provide a right mouse click option to publish local drafts from the Windows Explorer. Unfortunately there is no property which shows the user which files have a local draft within this view (only accessible vie the tray icon at the ver...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities

    Customer would like to have the ability to do searches through the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin using Tags for files into the Communities.. Currently the resource is available through the UI
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

    Insights about Community Followers

    The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

    what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

    In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification
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