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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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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Fix small font size of "pre" formattings

When selecting "pre" as formatting-template, TinyMCE uses a very small font-size (seems to be around 10x). This make it hard to read the pre-formatted code in the editor. This should be increased by default to a few pixel more, so that can be rea...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Allow advanced image propertys like borders, css and similar in TinyMCE

The old CKEditor wasn't really awesome as TinyMCE, but it has a few features that were missing in the new one. We miss the ability of right clicking on a image and add certain propertys like adding a border, apply custom css and similar ones. Tin...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Improve general performance of the connections web application

Connections is relatively slow, even in modern browsers like firefox or chrome. It took multiple seconds to load a page. Even on prem with recent hardware that has enough power. Nowadays, users expect load times of 1 to max. 2 seconds for the ent...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Let me choose the audience when posting a status update from the Activity Stream

Within the mobile app I can choose the target audience of a status update directly when posting it. In the web UI I have to first open the Community and post it there.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

FIDO2 and WebAuthn

No need for passwords. A 2FA should be possible as well. WebAuthn is the new web standard and truly safe. Just login with a key (and biometric as 2FA).
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

CircuitBreaker Messages Associated with Large Number of Calls

The customer is reporting a lot of CircuitBreaker entries in their logs. Development has stated that this is to be expected when a large number of calls is being made to a given application as it may result in timeouts. The Connections code doesn'...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

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...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Clarification

Option to create a list of Files/Folders

Currently it's not possible to create a list of files/folders from the apps Files/Folders or Libraries in Community's similar to for instance the old fashioned DIR-command you can use to list files/folders for a local hard drive or networkdrive.
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

@Mentions for external Users

Based on documentation what external users can do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/user/eucommon/c_eucommon_ext_user.html and what external users cannot do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

Completely remove all of the old stack from Connections by version 7.0

As a business partner, we find it hard to sell the current version of Connections because customer need to provide 2 kind of hardware (one for WAS and another for the Component Pack). In fact we have one customer who repeatedly delay their planned...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration