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 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...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Change mail format of Connections Cloud Newsletter (mail digest)

    Is it possible to change the formatting of the email that we receive from Connections Cloud notifications? Decrease the font size, for example. When we get it, it looks like "polluted," and the real message ends up getting lost in the middle. I k...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    Add Like and Comment functionality to embedded experience.

    Today third party widgets can be added as embedded experience in the Activity Stream of IBM Connections. Today users can interact with the widget but can not like or comment within Connections about the shown data. Idea: Create a possibility to en...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

    Stopping legacy Activities application

    There is nothing in the documentation that we could find that would indicate that it is possible to run Boards without Activities running. It seems as though you should be able to, but it turns out you can't. Is there any way of stopping legacy Ac...
    12 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

    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...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Default time zone for user profile

    User profile time zones are set to (GMT-12:00) International Date Line West by default. Can there by a quick and easy manner to configurable option to set a default time zone for all user profiles, i.e. "(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)"...
    12 months ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    E-mail notifications only from individual communities

    Currently I get from each community I follow email notifications. For the future, it would be better if I could again choose from which communities I get e-mail notifications. It can also be because I only want to follow a community, but do not wa...
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 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 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Provide "Move" Feature for Sections in Activities

    In IBM Connection's activities there is a Move option for single items and there child entries. This provides a very convenient way to move content between different activities. Unfortunately this option is not available for sections and their con...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Outlook plug-in Support for syncing edited files back to connections

    When one opens a file from connections in outlook and then edit it, the change won't be sync back to connections.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement
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