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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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Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Consistent Emoticon support

I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

Support for Outlook as Feed reader

When using a feed and subscribing to it in MS Outlook, it is not possible to open the related page. View article does not work. It makes the usage of Outlook as Feed reader for Connections content useless.
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Let every app run on a rasperry pi, as promised

2017 Jason Roy Gary announced "The future is pink": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-Connections-6-Die-Zukunft-ist-Pink-3672015.html Where he promised that every component should run on a raspberry pi. Since java is avaliable for ARM, t...
about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Enable "DocuSign" in Connections

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about 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Calendar as app in community has disappeared in Connections 6.5 On-prem

In Connections Cloud, it is possible to add more apps than On-prem. Including calendar. Since we are now moving from Cloud to On-prem, a calendar app will be very useful for orientation for community members. Why are apps reduced to Cloud?
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists