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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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Add ubiquitous "share" function

Any piece of content should be simply and easily shared to anyone or any community. A single icon with a click, a field to specific who/where, and the rest should be automated. Addition of comments could be optional. Best case would capture the ba...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Shipped

Set search scope to current community by default when searching from a community

CURRENT: When searching in /allmycommunities page, the results are default for all connections content REQUEST:Change the default scope from All Content to "My communities" #search, #communities
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 7 Shipped

Show the Rich Content widgets in the same order on mobile app as they are on web

Customer use multiple Rich Content (e.g. 5) widgets on a community but these are not displayed as expected on community overview in IC mobile app. On Web-UI the user re-sorted the Rich Content widgets but there is no adjustment of the widgets ...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Shipped

Improve Search Design

Since 6.0 the search design has significantly changed. The way the looking glass is on the side and not an empty box is rather unusual. We would 1. be interested how this came about and 2. suggest that the search would be closer to other search fu...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Shipped

Un-deprecate Outlook Plugin for Connections

The Connections Plugin for Outlook has been deprecated and moved to a support-only model by IBM for 2019. Hopefully this is just an IBM decision that will be reversed once the sale to HCL goes through. But I think it goes without saying that Offic...
almost 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 10 Shipped

order in the community navigation should be the same on the mobile phone and on the desktop

We see an inconsistency between Browser and Mobile App on community navigation order, listed on the sliding menu at the top and displayed apps on community overview.We request to have the same navigation order inside a community for mobile and on ...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Shipped

Consider EXIF orientation data in uploaded photos

Photos taken using the photo app on mobile devices typically contain the orientation as EXIF data. The photo is not saved in the expected orientation by the photo app. Instead, the software has to read and consider the EXIF data to display the pho...
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Shipped

Add a config option to connections mobile to open links into Safari

For some deployments it would be helpful if a link that i tap on opens in Safari, not embedded. This is especially the case for the situation that a customer uses an MDM-based secure browser (which then would be activated) or if the customer uses ...
almost 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Shipped

Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Support Connections Options for multiple files at once (e.g. in Sync Folder)

A right mouse click with installed Desktop Plugins allows to work on files with Connections. Unfortunately this option is not available as soon as you select more than one file at once. Especially if you use this with the Sync Folder, it is a pain...
almost 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Shipped

Change listing in My Communities view

We would like to be able to sort the list of My Communities and My Organizations Commmunities It should be easy to set the default listing to be name etc .. current default is date so recently changed is at the top. It would be nice to have th...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Shipped