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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    Enhance the Notes Plugin

    Add to the Notes Plugin for IBM Connections the possibilities to view and edit all the other apps, like forums, wikis, blogs and so on. Let us push mails not only to activities but also to a forum, a wiki or a blog.
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

    Allow seamless switching of users from being external to internal and vice versa

    The current use case for external users does not allow seamless switching from internal to external users and vice versa, unless one switches from ID.We would like to use the " external" attribute for internal users that do not actually use connec...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

    Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

    The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    WAV Support

    Currently you can not play wav files in connections. please integrate as soon as possible. This must be standard
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    MP3 Support

    Please integrate support for mp3 files. Currently you can not embed mp3 files. Currently you can not play mp3 files in connections
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Assessment

    Refurbish Activities to compete with Microsoft o365 Planner

    The user interface of Community Activities feels very outdated although it is a very powerful feature. I suggest to refurbish it in order to compete with Microsoft O365 planner (https://products.office.com/en-us/business/task-management-software) ...
    about 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration

    Allow users to unfollow content using OrientMe Home Page

    The "classic" activity stream features the option "Stop Following" in order to unfollow content (IBM Help : Stop following) and receiving updates about an item or person. Unfortunately, this can not be performed in OrientMe and I have to switch to...
    about 8 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Preview files on mobile

    Currently the mobile app downloads full file in order to render its preview. This is time consuming and megabytes of data are transfered unnecessarily. The generated preview is even not cached so you have to download the full file over and over if...
    about 8 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Under Consideration

    Giphy / GIF support for every app as well as within the Connections editor

    Please make an implementation of Giphy (https://giphy.com/) and include a GIF feature in the Connections editor like other tools as Slack or Microsoft Teams or Twitter are already support today! The current emoticons which are provided within Co...
    almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    More Performance for ICEC

    The Engagement Center is a fantastic solution if you also use connections as an intranet platform. Unfortunately, the widgets in icec load very slowly. The performance should be increased here.
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration
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