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 a Community homepage widget to show the community status updates on the homepage too

    Community status updates are a handy and important option to inform users of what's going on in a community. However, they are not shown on the community homepage (unless you change the default homepage to the status updates view) and therefore ha...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

    Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessibl...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Table of contents (TOC) macro does not display H1s in the table of content in Wiki

    When we apply the Heading1 for TOC , it is not recognized. The Heading1 text is taken as normal text and not as a link under TOC
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

    Sametime Meetings and Docs Integration

    When you are editing a document on docs sometime you need to talk to other people. HCL Docs should have an action to start a meeting using Sametime Meetings, this away it's possible to connect the people to develop a document.
    about 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Future Consideration

    Transfer Community content immediately to another admin when Business Owner is deleted

    The current process is: When a business owner is soft deleted and the ''assign To'' field is filled in, the Communities are put into a trash state. After 30 days the user is hard deleted. Then on the 90th day the content is transferred to the pers...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

    Community Member Management - Allow Bulk Removal

    Please allow the removal of multiple member at once. Allow community owner to select N members and select remove members. It is pretty annoying if you have to remove >10 users at once from a community and you have to remove member by member.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Profile Telephone Number as clickable link

    In the connections profile pages of each user the phone numbers are regular text. The idea we have is, to transform this numbers into an hyperlink --> <a href="tel:+499123456789">01235644</a> so that a soft-phone or on a smartphone ...
    almost 4 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Future Consideration

    Additional list view of Community members and support multi user delete

    Currently no row oriented listing of community members is supported that allows multi select of users to delete them. Community members have to be deleted one by one.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Improve general performance of the connections web application

    Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the enti...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

    In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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