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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    Organize notification email by community, not by contributor

    Hi, I get a weekly digest of my connections notifications. They're arranged by contributor. I like to keep track of some communities more than others; It would be a lot easier to review notifications if they were arranged by community, so I didn't...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Saving option from Microsoft Excel/Powerpoint/Word AddOn

    Enhancement Request : AddOn in Microsft Word/excel/Powerpoint makes it possible to save documents directly in our folders/files on IBM Connections Cloud. But we have to check the option "possible to share with external people" otherwise it won't b...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Update the Owner of the Community to a Group name.

    Use Case: Customer is using the HCL connections product, and they have communities created inside HCL Connections products. The user with the owner and administrator privileges for these communities have left the organization and their account fro...
    over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Add Ephox Textbox.io to the cloud as a rich text editor option

    Customers have requested the ability to switch the default rich text editor for Connections Cloud.A lot of our users need the functionality to copy/paste or drag/drop files and images into the rich text editor window for blogs, wiki's, forums, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Ability to selectively backup and restore community data

    Requesting the ability to selectively backup and restore community data. Years ago, there was a greenhouse asset that allowed for the following functionality: Back up a Connections community to a zip file. Backs up Members, Forums, Feeds, Bookma...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

    Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Communities size is not big enough (50GB per community).

    We have experienced that the capacity available for the communities created in IBM Verse is not enough for our needs (50GB per community). When we go over 50 Gigs we get the error "you have gone over your quota maximum of 51.180 MB"To workaround, ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    Show who voted on your idea. Let IDEA creators see that kind of information.

    Now it's now possible to see who voted on your idea. Only in your mail you have the evidence who voted on what idea.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Dogear: Support retrieval of favicon through Proxy-Server w/o having set reader role to Everyone

    As of Connections 6.0 CR2 it is not possible to retrieve favicons in Dogear through a configured Proxy Server without having the need to set the Dogear reader role to Everyone. Doing so result ins Dogear being accessible for even anonymous users, ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    RSS feed: Filter feed of followed resources on content type

    We request to get a RSS feed of new blog posts of all blogs I am following (community as well as standalone blogs), but only blog posts, not comments or likes on posts. The documented REST APIs provided by Connections do not have this offering. 1)...
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement
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