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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    Make community surveys visible to non-members in public communities.

    A public community is accesible by every member. Even files, libraries, wikis etc. of this community are accesible, except Community-Surveys. This should be accessible without being a member of a public community.
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Hide own completed ToDo when assigned to multiple persons.

    It's confusing that "Assigned To Me" Todo's in Activities are still visible, even when i completed them. This behavior only occurs when a todo is assigned to multiple persons. Please remove a completed ToDo, even when assigned to multipe persons.
    about 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 Under Consideration

    Owners of a Community should not automatically be owners of a Sub-Community

    When someone is the owner of a parent community, he cannot be removed from a subcommunity.We think that should be possible.
    almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Disable version summary pop-up when publishing docs from native applications

    When publishing documents from native applications using the HCL Connections plug-in, you must complete a version summary pop-up before finalizing publication. The workflow is as follows: Open a Microsoft Word document through the HCL Connection...
    11 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    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...
    almost 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) ...
    almost 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration
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