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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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Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

No Interactive for the shared article event from Intranet

​With the new intranet, we have a better connection between Intranet and Connections, and one of the function is that we can share the intranet article easliy through the "share in Connections " button. but the problem is , for all those shared ar...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

References to ordinary messages

​Why do we get permlinks for forum entries but not for all Connections entries — even comments? Technically this shouldn't make such a big difference.IBM should really rework there linking strategy. Currently, it's... hm, let's say heteronegeous.....
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

For Blogs Clicking on Show more should increment the number of views just as you click on the post itself

​the view number should be more or less correct. One possibility to "view" the post is to click on it. Then the view count increments by 1. Another possibility is: you just click on "show more". This is not considered by counting views.If you do s...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Link to Connections past events

​I would like the possibility to have a link to Connections Events in a Community that will also open with the "show Past events" filter activated.Currently this option is not saved in the url, so user might miss this point.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Connections Events .ics file shall contain a link to the Connections event

Following reasons for doing this:· Once someone has imported the event to its calendar, links will not work (if it is imported by ics — not by feed). [Looks like a Lotus Notes issue?] So it is nice to open the event in ConNextand click in the even...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

View the activity of my network people on their Connections profile

​I would like to be able to see all the activity (blog entries, likes, file uploads, etc) for people in my network when I go to their profile page. Right now, if I access someone`s profile I can see all my notifications, which is the same as going...
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Under Consideration

Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
over 3 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

Publish a blog page to multiple locations

The ability to publish a blog to multiple communities without needing to recreate the same page multiple times.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Grant edit access to single blog not entire community

The ability to give edit permissions to individuals or group for individual blog page without giving them editor access to the entire community.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement