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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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Ability for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Missleading error message - when a library limit defined by policy is being hit - either by upload or update of an existing file - the error message should be meaningful

During uploading a new version of file to Connections from the File preview if user is going to break his personal library limit, he is getting an error: "Cannot save a new file version. Please try again later." It is missleading. Users are ge...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

introduce features to enable customization of Community survey forms

This enhancement request is to introduce flexibility within HCL Connections Community surveys to enable admins to implement customizations of Surveys forms. This would allow to alter the design, layout, text, etc of the survey form to match the cu...
about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Get rid of iFrame widgets for consistent customization support

In the right sidebar on the homepage are multiple widgets. Most of them are well embedded so that we can customize their styling. But some are just iframes. Those iframes have their own styles and it's not documented how to customize them, so we'r...
about 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

Increase the options for Notifications within Communities

Directly from the customer: We'd like to recommend that we add more options for sending and receiving notifications. From the content creator perspective we'd like to have an option to send a notification when we create new content: post a blog, c...
about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

I'd like the ability to share blogs with other communities.

When multiple business areas are affected by a change, I'd like the ability to post a blog and share it as a blog on the other impacted communities.
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

Preview file rather than download file when clicking on file name in wiki

As a Connections user, I want a file to be shown in Connections rather than being downloaded when I click on file name in Wiki because the purpose of Connections is to collaborate on files rather than distributing them to client computers. When a ...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

Allow formatting, tables, screenshots etc. in comments

As an IBM Connections user, I want to be able to use all formatting options that the editor provides for creating an entry in a Wiki/ Blog, Activity or wherever for commenting that entry as well because the current limitation to text-only comments...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Better and more scalable

Make Connections more scalable. We have some users who would like to work with a scaling of 150% Browser Scaling. Unfortunately, however, there is the problem that the header bar is no longer completely displayed. Modern website adapt to the diffe...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

Table of Contents (TOC) macro for Blogs

I would like a TOC macro for Blogs as we have for Wikis.
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration