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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    Saving option from Microsoft Excel/Powerpoint/Word AddOn

    Enhancement Request : AddOn in Microsft Word/excel/Powerpoint makes it possible to save documents directly in our folders/files on IBM Connections Cloud. But we have to check the option "possible to share with external people" otherwise it won't b...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Built-in support for Auth0

    Today Auth0 supports all major such as Microsoft, google, facebook, etc. It is now time for IBM to make support for this in Connections.
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Schedule House Keeping on IBM Docs

    Customer would like to have an option to schedule manually the HouseKeeping task startup on Viewer server Currently, the start time of HouseKeeping is set when the application is started. Thus means whenever the application was restarted, the time...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Changed owner cause ACL(protected cells) can't be used/modified any more.

    When the owner of the document was changed/deleted (For Lenovo Box, it is allowed to change file owner or delete a file owner), the docs library records the previous owner. In this scenario, if there were ACL settings(Readable or Editable) by dele...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    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 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

    Extension for search

    For a proper integration of 3rd party apps (community widgets, addons, Box and so on) we need extension point for search! Integrated content needs to appear in search, additional search boxes in widgets are bad and you can't tell users to search s...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

    In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

    Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

    So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Schedule MS Teams Meeting from Connections Events

    Planning Events in Connections is great, but it would be even more useful, if there was an ability to schedule a MS Teams Meeting directly from there. Just like it works in Outlook. Add a button to the 'create event' view and add that meeting invi...
    about 5 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 No Plans to Implement
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