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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    Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

    use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    ICEC: Personalization to be able to work with dynamic values and not just hard coded ones

    "I am building an ICEC interface for IBM Connections Cloud, latest version. During registration of users an activity will be set up for that user based on a template. The activity ID will be stored in an extension field on the profile. The require...
    over 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Allow Business Owners the ability to export information on Guest Users from Communities with in their organization

    Create a mechanism where all Smart Cloud Org Owner(s) & Business Owners have the ability to export a full and complete list of all members within their own Smart Cloud communities which will include the full list of members and their informati...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Web Address in community set up - set to lower case only

    The Web address field in the community set up page allows upper and lower case - this should allow entry of lower case only for consistency
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Support for changing application URLs for ICEC, Invite, Sidebar and Touchpoint.

    Changing application URLs / context root is supported for "legacy" Connections applications (https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v65/admin/admin/t_admin_common_change_context_root.html), yet it is not supported and does not work for new applica...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Sync_all_dns by LDAP Group

    An organization has a large number of LDAP profiles, which causes sync_all_dns to take an extended period to run. However, only a subset of users in one LDAP group use Connections. Sync_all_dns would be much more efficient if it could be run again...
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    Group/Stack events in activity stream

    If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

    Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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