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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    Have profile pictures show up in newsletters without the need of changing the security role for profiles app

    When enabling the new newsletter template, which is available since CR4, the profile pictures are not shown on the received newsletters. After setting the profiles app security role "Readers" from "All Authenticated in Application's Realm” to "Eve...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Under Consideration

    Make locked files more visible

    Locked files have an icon indicating it in the list view and the custom view only. If a externally shared file is locked, there's no indicator in the grid view. Only the yellow link appears. If a file is locked, it should be more visible. Maybe so...
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

    Allow users in org-admin role on communities application to see all communities in UI

    When assigning users to the org-admin role ( Connections-MT) those users can use the API to get a list of all communities or use a direct link to access them. It would be very useful to create an extra tab for them in the Communities Landing page ...
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Re-design of Guest Users/Visitor User Model for IBM Connections Cloud Version (SaaS)

    Back in 2016 there was a roadmap for a re-design of the whole guest users approach to improve the management of external users in your own cloud tenant that could fulfill requirements such as: - More control for cloud tenant admins - Overview of e...
    almost 8 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Allow sharing a Blog from an activity stream post

    In Social Cloud environment customer want to share different entries from Connections (mainly blog entries) on their activity stream, and when they do this (they copy the url of the Blog and post it on their activity stream) they get a Log In mess...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    Increase the font size

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

    Delete several wikis at a time

    Delete several wikis at a time. Why can I delete only ONE wiki at a time? I would like to delete 100 wikis at a time, because the knowledge is not up to date anymore and is no longer updated. Now I have to delete all of these wikis individually. W...
    over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Assessment

    As an admin I want to see a list of all Communities in my Org (even restricted ones)

    Create API to enable creation of a list of all Communities, even private ones (without having to purchase a 3rd party tool).
    about 8 years ago in 09. Administration 5 Already Exists

    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

    user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

    It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration
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