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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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Move Blogs configuration properties to config file or gatekeeper

Currently, many of the settings for blogs are in a settings file in the ear file. On every Cfix and or upgrade, this get's overwritten. Please move them to gatekeeper or LC_Config folder. Connections is hard enough to maintain as it is, having to ...
about 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Check for broken links in Wiki pages

It is very common situation that hyperlinks are broken in Wiki pages, i.e. they point to non-existing resources resulting in 404 errors. It would be great to have automatic way to check for broken links in Wiki pages and report them to Community o...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Ability to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files'

We want to have the option to hide the 'My Drive' option under 'Files' if they wanted to as they are not currently using the functionality and it appears to be causing confusion for their users.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Under Consideration

Allow for IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows browsing via [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from Microsoft Office applications.

The current IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows does not allow for browsing when choosing [File] - [Open] and [Save As] dialog from MS Office applications. The current functionality does not allow for the same browsing from [Fil...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 2 Under Consideration

File Sync not working for Community Files in Desktop Plug-in

File Sync for communities is currently not supported. Only Personal Files are supported by Sync.Client has requested that an enhancement request be made to allow for Syncing of Community files
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

Connections to support reading *.eml files

When drag and drop mails from Notes mail by Connections files plug-in, to files/folders/Communities, you can not read the file in browser. You can download it and trying to read it, but you need Outlook installed on your PC. No one has Outlook ins...
about 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Support any registered community app - not just system apps

Currently the mobile app only supports community apps that are system provided. Therefore, 3rd party community apps - even ones that are fully responsive design - are not supported by the mobile app. As such, extensibility with Connections is high...
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 2 Under Consideration

Make File Folders searchable

Users cannot search for folder names in the current releases. Make these searchable.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 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...
over 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration