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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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Embedding File Preview

I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

Support Rich HTML (& CSS) for Activity Streams

REQUEST: Support a richer set of HTML & CSS for Activity Streams to be at par competitively. For example, products like HipChat and Slack and other activity stream type apps support this. JUSTIFICATION: Perception and eye-candy is core and val...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Improve Blogs UI for ease of navigation/use by end users

Requesting these changes to the Blogs UI as the current design is not intuitive nor efficient for end users. Once a draft blog is composed saved & closed there is no straight forward way of getting back the draft. For the community owner(s), t...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

Customize the Tailored Experience

Customer would like to have the ability to customize the Tailored Experience. (We need to change the font and CSS in the Create Community page for the application)
over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Need a way to work in a Community Files app “offline” and sync to the cloud automatically when online again

Environment: Smart Cloud Connections Refer to below URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSL3JX/files/c_files_sync_refresh.html You can Use My Drive to work with files offline, files you add and edit in My Drive are automatica...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Notifying All Community Members about content

It is not possible to quickly select "All members" of the community on the "Notify Community Members" panel, e.g. in a Community event or Blog post. Selecting members one by one is not practical in larger communities.
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

Adding new members to Moderated communities

Nowadays when a new user is interested in joining a Community, they send a request which shows up in the notifications of the owners, when you click on this notification the next screen is the main page of the community of interest, then you have ...
about 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

Wiki - Link to specific position in a page (anchor)

It is not possible to use anchors that won't be displayed in the TOC. I would expect our Wiki to support the basic normal HTML feature and also direct reference link wikipageurl #anchorname without via ?section=anchorname.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole)

I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole) - and when copied, it is named "Copy of <original name>" unless I edit the name before it is saved the first time. Maybe also include a choice on whether to copy comments and attachm...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Support Notify for all content types

All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cr...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration