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 the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Integration of other web chat clients like Skype for Business

Currently, only Sametime version 9 can be integrated into HCL Connections. It would be fantastic if you could also integrate other web chat clients in Connections with presence display. Examples would be Skype for Business, Rocketchat.
over 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

HCL product dev. team have to improve the quality of rendering PPT/PPTX file for satisfying customer's requirement.

Nowadays lots of customer would like to use HCL Connections Docs for co-editing feature to leverage team productivity. But there are two so critical problem related with rendering PPT/PPTX file. 1. The rendering result of file viewer removed back...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

ICEC: Allow to select specific entry with personalization in Static Content Blog / Wiki widget

The idea of Static Content Blog or Static Content Wiki widget is to display a specific entry from a blog (= post) or wiki (= page). This works fine without personalization. When personalization is enabled, the current implementation in Static Co...
almost 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future Consideration

Dont show accepted answers twice in forum thread

When the creator of a forum thread marks a post as accepted answear, this post is shown twice: One time as accepted answear, and another time in the regular post flow. This is a waste of space and confusing for users. Also IT people, since most of...
almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Make it possible to place the Survey app in the (home screen) Community on mobile

We use the survey to get response on the quality of our community and the use of Connections. To enable this we put the survey on the homepage of our community (‘s). This works for the desktop version of Connections but in the mobile app users don...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 5 Under Consideration

Add file to different folders within community

We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Custom Logo in the IBM Connections App

Display your own logo when starting the app. It must be possible to define your own logo via mobil-config.xml.
about 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration
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