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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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Websphere V9 Support for Connections and Windows Server 2019 Support!

I know that you won't want to do so much with Websphere in the future, but as long as Websphere is still supported, it would be great if Connections finally supports Websphere version 9!
over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Under Consideration

Allow Automatic backup of ICEC pages in IBM Connections Cloud

This is a request to enable functionality to automatically backup of ICEC pages in IBM Connections Cloud. Currently, the only option is to manually backup pages by exporting them, but this can easily result in pages being missed or lost due to use...
over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 No Plans to Implement

No option to create scrollbar in text editor

Right now, you can only create scrollbars in tables with HTML scripts that use the <textarea> tags. Not everyone knows how to use HTML scripting well. It would be helpful to add a user-friendly option in the table menu or during table creati...
8 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
almost 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

Add an option to collapse a blog to a title and summary view vs all entries being expanded inline

For Connections (Cloud) blogs, there should be a way to collapse the blog entries so you could more easily see the headings (titles) and expand only the entry that you want to read at the time. For example: Blog title1 Short summary, perhaps th...
over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Forum upload should fail right away if the size exceeds the configured limit

Attaching a size limit-exceeding file to a forum topic or reply takes time to fail. It would be better for the UI to recognize that the file exceeds the limit and fail immediately. Instead, end users need to wait and will eventually see an appropr...
over 2 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

Limit the Number of File Versions to Retain

Files that are worked on regularly often have several hundred versions that are no longer needed. However, the normal user will not delete the old versions manually; instead, they unnecessarily use up storage space. It would be great if you could ...
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Under Consideration

IBM Connections mobile app to to support more mail apps. (iOS)

Currently the IBM Connections app for iOS only supports Verse and the native mail profile for mail actions such as "mailTo". When clicking on an email in Profile or a Community, the dialogue only allows you to open the email with the native mail a...
over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Activity entry template can not be used

I have an activity and I select "Add entry" > Add a table or add links or make specific changes. Save the entry Then I go to "More Actions" "Save as Entry Template" Select a symbol and give a name. But if I then choose "more"-"Add entry templat...
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Connections Whiteboard as a new file

In Connections Files the availability to not only add Document, Spreadsheet and Presentation files, but also a Whiteboard. At least with the functionality of: - Rich Text- Drawings- Add Pictures At the Google Drive I have the availability to crea...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration