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

    Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

    The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Adding touchpoint customization

    Making customization possible so that for example:- new people can "invite for my network" instead of only following.- add information to "background"- add links to "blog link"
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    support for HCL Connections Mail Plug-in to work with Microsoft 365 Mail

    We would like to use the HCL Connections Mail Plug-in with O365. Unfortunately this is not supported at this time. https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/connectionsmail/v6.5/Deploying/icm_admin.html Please enhance Connections Mail Plug-in support...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Chrome extension

    There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open to...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

    RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

    Disable link recognition in Activitystream and Mail notifications

    When you create a post (blog, forum, wiki) and add some project number or JIRA ticket number in the beginning, linked to your Helpdesk, or other system, this link gets removed in the mail notification and activity stream. When your JIRA number now...
    almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Increase the font size

    Most sites have such small font size I can barely read announcements in blogs, etc.
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Offer @ mentions function in all applications

    When trying to mention another user in ex. Rich Content app on the community page this is not possible. Users would like to have this option in all aplications since it will help with consistency.
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Adding a way to set the users to "read-only" role to everything inside Connections

    A way to set users to "reader-only" role to Connections including Mobile and Plugins to avoid changes when there is a need to copy some data or perform backup will be useful. There is a way to set roles per application but it is good to have an "o...
    over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review
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