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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Offer @ mentions function in all applications

When trying to mention another user in ex. Rich Content app on the community page this is not possible. Users would like to have this option in all aplications since it will help with consistency.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Move Blogs configuration properties to config file or gatekeeper

Currently, many of the settings for blogs are in a settings file in the ear file. On every Cfix and or upgrade, this get's overwritten. Please move them to gatekeeper or LC_Config folder. Connections is hard enough to maintain as it is, having to ...
over 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Improved navigation for Wikis on mobile devices

This is specifically for Connections Mobile on iOS, but the concepts may apply to Android as well. There are a number of usability improvements needed for wikis with page hierarchies on mobile devices. These all could potentially be resolved if pr...
almost 2 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Needs Review

Need a way to work in a Community Files app “offline” and sync to the cloud automatically when online again

Environment: Smart Cloud Connections Refer to below URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSL3JX/files/c_files_sync_refresh.html You can Use My Drive to work with files offline, files you add and edit in My Drive are automatically ...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Docs: Hope to create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area

Problem: Can not create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area Steps to reproduce:1. user1 create a new excel file in Docs, share to user2 and user3 as Editors.2. user1 select the whole 2nd line of the file, assign "Edi...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Embedding File Preview

I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

New employees should automatically follow administrator-defined communitys

New employees should automatically follow multiple communities. These communities are to be defined by the administrator.
about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Already Exists

Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
about 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Customer to have links open in new tabs

The customizer applications allow links to be opened in new window using "new_window": true. There is no option to open in new tabs. This would be useful to be able to open links in new tabs to reduce the number of windows being opened
almost 2 years ago in 13. Other 2 Needs Review

In Community Activities remove the option to make other users readers when the community is public anyway

The security in Community Activities in public & moderated communities is confusing and implies a level of security that isn't valid: Working for a customer on creating some documentation I found the following. In Community Activities you hav...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration
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