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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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Make IBM Connections Touchpoint Open Source for further development

In 2017, IBM released Touchpoint for free in their own download catalogue. Accordig to the version.txt, the last Release 1.1.0 is from 2014. So no further development takes place. That's pity since Touchpoint is a good software that we use in our ...
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Default Role to EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED for all users

All the internal users have default permission to do all the activity in the connections. If internal users want to interact with external users, they need to have "employee.extended" role which will be provided by admin. Need "employee.extended" ...
over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 Needs Review

Create events with limited members

it would be greate to create events with limited members. After the limit is reached, users can't no more attend to the event.
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Combine Recent Updates and Status Updates into one menu item in communites

These 2 take up valuable landscape in the menu bar and are used way too infrequently. Combine into one view and give users the option to filter, as necessary. Accelerate value of updates and finding the latest changes within communities! See also ...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Alert community owner to maintain members and owners (e.g. inactive users)

For community owners it is important to maintain the members and owners of their communities. It would be pretty helpful to have defined alert levels either globally or per community to inform the owners if there are issues like only one owner fo...
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Display files without folder association in Community folder view as files in root folder

Currently it is hardly possible to distinguish between files that are placed in a specific folder and files that are only visible in the Files view of the Community library (files that have been uploaded directly to the Files section), since all C...
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Windows desktop plugin annoys with popup for login on start although nothing to do for the user

The windows desktop plugin login process for web authentication needs absolutely NO popup once the user has made use of his federated SAML login via ADFS. The popup annoys every time you start the service, saying you are being logged on, nothing t...
over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 3 Under Consideration

Increase number of custom profile fields limit (IBM Connections Cloud)

We are using custom fields on profiles (IBM Help: Customizing your organization > Updating user profiles). Currently we use 8 of them and there is a limit of 10 custom fields.Can this limit be extended? On-prem you do not have a limitation and ...
over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

API to list community members of given time frame

Our requirement is : An API to list all the members who have joined a particular community for a certain period of time(30days/60days)."
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Remove self-updates from Updates stream

I would like to have the possibility in my Updates my own Status Updates or Blog updates removed from the feed.
over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration