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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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Connections Mobile App: Show content depending on the type of device (private or business)

In our company less than 50% of the employees do have a business smartphone. We use Microsoft Intune to manage our business devices. Now we would really like to provide the app to private phones as well but with limited content. From private phone...
about 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 No Plans to Implement

Enable OAuth for Connections Desktop Plugin (onPrem)

(we should have a category "Desktop Plugin" for ideas) The Connections Desktop Plugin authenticates "separately" with the connections server. OAuth is already supported by Connections mobile both in on-prem and cloud scenarios. This is similarly...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Automatic tagging based on templates

Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Consistent Emoticon support

I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Desktop Plugin for Linux

As a Linux user, I would love to see the desktop plugin made available for Linux systems as well. So that you can easily access your files without having to launch the browser. This should be possible in a similar way as under macOS? In recent tim...
almost 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 No Plans to Implement

Custom note area on IBM Connections

I'd like to see a personal notes area on the IBM Connections pages for each person that you connect with that way you could easily pull up their profile and see what other information you have about them that would allow you to interact better wit...
over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

Track usage of Shared Link for files

When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

Customization of level details sent by email notification (newsletter) for updates/comments of content in Communities

IT would great to have a option to set the detail level/customization of information/format of community news letters. The customization should be set per community level. This for IBM Connetion Cloud. The scenario is that often the mail box ...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement