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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    IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows on Terminal Server 2012 / Citrix

    Copied from the old ER blog Customer requests the support for the desktop plugin on terminal server 2012 and with Citrix.
    about 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 7 No Plans to Implement

    Add possibility edit status updates

    Status updates cannot be edited. E.g. typos cannot be corrected an entry must be deleted an recreated. Which is annoying for the author and clutters the feed of followers.
    about 8 years ago in 04. Profiles 3 Future Consideration

    Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

    It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

    Allow Shared Files to be Included in Community Folder

    When files are shared by someone with a community, those files cannot be put into a community folder. It would be ideal if all files in a community (whether owned by the community or shared with the community) could appear in the same folder.
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    Link URL of Background and Contact Information Tab from Profiles redirects to Recent Updates when opened in another tab

    When the URL of "Contact Information" and "Background" tab in profiles are copied and pasted in another browser tab, it redirects to "Recent Updates". The URLs of both Contact Information and Background tab should not redirect instead it should go...
    about 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    Upload a photo via mobile device on the connections mobile app to a forum

    Our blue color workers use the forum on the iPhone App. They have a great need to upload photos to the forum. This will help for their maintenance work in the power plants
    almost 8 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

    List attached files as "files" in connections

    When files are added as attachemend in a wiki/blog/forum-page, they also will be uploaded in Connections. It would be nice to see the attachements also under "files"-Section.
    6 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    External community members should also get notifications

    Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

    Stop to follow your own contents changed by yourself

    In many cases I get notified that I changed my own content. This is not helpful. Please surpress these kind of notifications.
    about 8 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 2 Future Consideration

    Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

    Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
    over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review
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