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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01. General/Multiple Areas

    Improvement to files linked in Activity Stream

    When a user adds a file to the AS and saves it, fellow users see a link for pdf & doc ,but for images they see a thumbnail preview. The current functionality is by clicking the link under the file the file is downloaded. Clicking the file titl...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Advanced search in the global search bar

    Requesting a design change with how the Advanced search option is not in the global search bar. Although this is working as design, the documentation may be a bit misleading. Currently, the advanced search bar does not display in the initial searc...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Using IBM Docs as a previewer for community files in wiki pages iframes

    We want to publish previews on documents from the files library in some guideline-style wiki pages. Therefore we used the ibm docs preview URL as an iframe src URL in a wiki page. This works fine. Now we encounter additional feature request from o...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    TinyMCE to consider Active Content Filtering rules by Connections

    Connections allows to customize Active Content Filter rules. By this, customers are able to adapt blacklist or whitelist to their needs. - Whitelist: https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v6/admin/secure/sec_acf_whitelist_intro.html - Blackl...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Accepting button for Network contact invitations

    When a User receive a request to become a Network contact in Connections. The only possibility is, to open the profile directly or from the Notification Bell, and select "Accept invitation". It would be good to have a direct button option in the N...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Implement generative AI within Connections

    Implement generative AI features within Connections to help produce, organize, and manage content (end user perspective), and/or manage the system (administrator perspective).
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Let me choose the audience when posting a status update from the Activity Stream

    Within the mobile app I can choose the target audience of a status update directly when posting it. In the web UI I have to first open the Community and post it there.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Display MS Teams Status Message on ConNext profile pages

    User does not have to switch environments to see Teams status message of another user directly on his ConNext profile page (in addition to availability status)
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Push status updates from ConNext into Teams chat.

    If the user could push status updates from ConNext directly into Teams chat, a discussion / conversation with a defined target group could be initiated (inform / initiate further actions or exxchange).
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Add a Teams Chat to a ConNext (sub)community.

    Assign / allocate a Teams Chat to a (sub) community to make it visible to a broader audience + create more transparency.
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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