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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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Share community file with other communities

Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Integration with Microsoft Stream

I would like to be able to conveniently embed videos uploaded in Microsoft Stream from the Connections Editor. My most common workflow is: I upload a video to MS Stream and then embed it in a Connections blog, wiki or forum. It would be very helpf...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Add multi-client capability to Connections on-premise

We are hosting Connections on-prem for our company and our customers. Today we have the choice to put all the customers on one Cnx infrastructure or to provide a own infrastructure per customer. Both solutions have a lot of disadvantages. So my id...
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Already Exists

Date filter in Advanced Search

When searching for historical information, it's necessary to leave out recent documents from the search results.
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

IBM Connections Plug-ins Installer for IBM Notes 10 on MAC

At this time https://xspy.mybluemix.net/nx - support for Notes v10 for Windows clients only, customer requests IBM Connections Plug-ins for IBM Notes 10 for Mac Client.
about 6 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Already Exists

Blogs, Wikis and Files view counter increase on page reload

The view counters in blogs, wikis, and files can be increased by any user by just reloading the page/entry/file multiple times. There is no check on cookie or session ID. In blogs there is a config option that the original author is not counted in...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Add functionality to follow or search tags in Orient-Me

It is not possible to follow tags anymore. Also, tags are not clickable and searchable.
about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

Allow to discover new content that you are not following already

With Orient me, the filter criterias have changed from to only people communities and tags. Filtering for additional services is not possible any longer.
about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

It should be possible to vote for comments

It should be possible to vote for comments. Especially in posts with lots of comments it would be nice to see the "hot" ones (e.g. youtube) or the possibility to filter for it.
about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration