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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Blog Link Field in My Profile requires specific formatting not listed in our documentation

Customer would like some guide or restriction to what the correct formatting and expected entry is for the Blog Link in My Profile for future releases. We were able to test a workaround and added the prefix of the URL with just www. , it seems aft...
11 days ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Implement Community template not just for post-TE deployment but should include pre-existing communities as well

I noticed back in 2018 that I had a similar idea regarding Community templates, specifically this one: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-255 As stated in your product documentation: https://help.hcl-software.com/connec...
6 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Spreadsheet to automatically filter all data including empty spaces in between data

When you automatically filter data in a column, it would only filter all the data until the first blank space of the column. This behavior is different from openoffice where it can filter all data even if there are blank spaces in between. (WPS Sp...
23 days ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review
212 VOTE

Automatically upgrade desktop plugin

We would like to suggest an auto-update feature for the IBM Connections File Sync and Share Desktop Plug-In. A number of improvements have been made to this plug-in recently, however our users often run old versions and struggle with issues which ...
about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 8 Under Consideration
192 VOTE

Mark Community as Inactive/Read Only

Frequently communities and sub communities are used to support projects. As soon as the project ends there shall be no new contents within this community. At the very moment Connections does not allow to set this community to read only. Please int...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

Allow SVG to work with TinyMCE Editor

Is there a way for HCL to support SVG when writing content with SVG elements through the Rich Content widget when using TinyMCE Editor? I am sure you're all aware of this issue, but I dont understand why its not being implemented. I have heard fro...
9 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

User Selfregistration (invite) with calculated values for UID

Please make it possible to allow for a calculated value for UID on self creation. For example UUID V4, or even better to allow to inject custom javascript so the customers own logic can be written. Is it possible to use calculated strings in the s...
5 months ago in 13. Other 0 Assessment

Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
3 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
143 VOTE

@mention a Community or Groups in order to notify all members or groups

Allow users to (at)mention communities in order to notify a big group of people/teams. Currenlty only mentioning of people is allowed.
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 10 Future Consideration
132 VOTE

Move content from one community into another

It would be great to be able to move any content page (wiki page, blog entry, forum entry, activity... whatever) from one Community into another. Our users sometimes create content in a place where it is not intended to be. Currently there is no o...
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration
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