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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    request config setting for default community layout in IC

    In IBM Connections 6.0, there is a new layout by default provided when a community is created. We would like to choose the default layout in a configuration file. We would like to keep the default layout of v5.5.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    ENHANCEMENT: PERSONAL GROUPS DO NOT SYNCHRONIZE TO THE DEVICE CO NTACTS APPLICATION.

    This was raised in 2014 - has there been any progress on this since then?
    about 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    More informative message and ability to grant permission when trying to share from Photos on Android

    If you try to share an item from Photos on Android, and if you haven't yet granted permission to the Connections Mobile app to access photographs on the device, you will be prompted with the following message: "You do not have permission to access...
    over 7 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

    Add Community Type (single select drop down) to the Start a Community Screen

    Its is necessary in our environment to assign a "Type" or grouping to a community. It would greatly simplify administration if this field were available within the connections community itself. This typing allows administrators to identify the lev...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Maintenance announcements posts in a multi language format.

    Maintenance announcements which displays 2 or 3 days before maintenance when user logs in to Connections Cloud are only in English. It would be shown in their preferred language.And Customer Admin would be set the users who display these announcem...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Repeating Events, support repeat every 6,7,8 weeks

    Events can repeat weekly and the selection allows every "Week, 2 Weeks, 3 Weeks, 4 Weeks, 5 Weeks". Unfortunately 6 Weeks, 7 Weeks, 8 Weeks is missing. In the IBM Notes/Verse Calendar you have the option of 6-8 weeks so there is an inconsistency t...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Enhancement: Request to add Export Community File list

    The customer wants to export all Files in Connections Cloud community to a list to use it in Excel, e.g. csv format file. "Feed for these Files" shows all files in community. However it is not easy to convert for Excel.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Limit access for global moderator only via moderation application

    In the current releases of IBM Connections, global moderators are allowed to access all communities (public and private). If a global moderator is not member of a specific community, he might not be able to access dedicated community applications ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Add new J2EE security role "privileged-community-creator" for Communities app

    Add a dedicated role named "privileged-community-creator" which can be used to assign the permission to create private communities only. In the current implementation using community policy, you can restrict the community types which users in th...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Refuse the use of the plugin for parts of the user base

    Due to strict data security requirements from the authorities, we have a need to refuse the use of plug-in from the internet without two factor authentication.My idea is to be able to set up a dedicated web server that only gives access to Connect...
    over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration
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