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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    Enhancement request: Improvement of search quality - Expression variations of Katakana characters of Japanese language

    This is enhancement request from Yachiyo Industry who is using Connections Social Cloud and ICEC on Cloud. Kata-kana characters of Japanese language has some expression variations. For example, a word "A project manager" has 8 expression variatio...
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Please add sharing files to Groups feature

    Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or a community. If user wanted to share a file to a group of people, he had to add person one by one on sharing page which is inconvenient. Please help add sharing a file to a grop...
    over 2 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

    Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

    Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
    about 8 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under 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

    Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

    Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

    Add a way to invite all Community Members during Event Creation

    When creating an HCL Community Event, There is a way to notify members, but you can only select at max 500 members at once. A workaround to email all community members is to either keep selecting 500 members batch by batch until all members have b...
    5 months ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    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.
    almost 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 7 No Plans to Implement

    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...
    almost 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

    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
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