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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Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
about 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Completely remove all of the old stack from Connections by version 7.0

As a business partner, we find it hard to sell the current version of Connections because customer need to provide 2 kind of hardware (one for WAS and another for the Component Pack). In fact we have one customer who repeatedly delay their planned...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

Wikis Collapsible Table of Contents

When a table of contents is created in a wiki page with headers that have sub-headers, all of the content is statically displayed on the page. This can take up a lot of space if there is a lot of content. It would be nice if it were possible to co...
almost 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Search via link from Tags with a "/" do not work in the tag cloud

The search function displays zero or no result in Tag Cloud of a Community when character "/" is present in Tag. Whereas the same Tag when checked from Homepage provides the search result with the Tag included. Ex : forum/tag in the Tag cloud of C...
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

Copy image from a wiki page to clipboard

In a wiki page, right-mouse click on an image in a wiki page. Select Copy. does not work:image is not copied to the clipboard. This shall be supported.
about 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Already Exists

Possibility to add widgets to Orient Me

We want to have the possibility to add widgets to Orient Me like we could on the old homepage on the right side (Recommendations, To Dos, Events) in order to show e.g. trending topics (separate self-developed report that shows what's currently tre...
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 No Plans to Implement

Proper URL preview in Orient Me

We want to have a proper URL preview of URLs posted in a status update on Orient Me. e.g. google.com works, but if you post e.g. a link to Amazon, nothing is previewed. The URL preview should work for all links and needs to be consistent.
over 5 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

Deleting automatically the Docs temp files instead of manual intervention

We understand that when there is an issue with the Conversion cluster, it also affects the viewer. For instance, when content fails to render, storage space is still consumed. Is there a way to automatically clear the temporary directory, rather t...
9 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner fo...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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