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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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    Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

    Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Calendar as app in community has disappeared in Connections 6.5 On-prem

    In Connections Cloud, it is possible to add more apps than On-prem. Including calendar. Since we are now moving from Cloud to On-prem, a calendar app will be very useful for orientation for community members. Why are apps reduced to Cloud?
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Human readable file names for Connections installation files

    Please produce human readable filenames that were related to the product I'm downloading. Filenames like "CNB75ML.tar" are not very handy, I have no clue that this is DB2, it could be anything. Namings like e.g. db2_version-xyz_linux-x86-x64.tar w...
    almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Make lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality consistent in all components (orient me and community catalog)

    For me as a user it is not understandable, why the lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality is implemented differently in different components. It should look and behave the same in all components. For example the back to top button is in t...
    about 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    CircuitBreaker Messages Associated with Large Number of Calls

    The customer is reporting a lot of CircuitBreaker entries in their logs. Development has stated that this is to be expected when a large number of calls is being made to a given application as it may result in timeouts. The Connections code doesn'...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

    No Interactive for the shared article event from Intranet

    ​With the new intranet, we have a better connection between Intranet and Connections, and one of the function is that we can share the intranet article easliy through the "share in Connections " button. but the problem is , for all those shared ar...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    References to ordinary messages

    ​Why do we get permlinks for forum entries but not for all Connections entries — even comments? Technically this shouldn't make such a big difference.IBM should really rework there linking strategy. Currently, it's... hm, let's say heteronegeous.....
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Link to Connections past events

    ​I would like the possibility to have a link to Connections Events in a Community that will also open with the "show Past events" filter activated.Currently this option is not saved in the url, so user might miss this point.
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Connections Events .ics file shall contain a link to the Connections event

    Following reasons for doing this:· Once someone has imported the event to its calendar, links will not work (if it is imported by ics — not by feed). [Looks like a Lotus Notes issue?] So it is nice to open the event in ConNextand click in the even...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Deactivate Guest Option

    Customer wants to deactivate the guest option. Informed option not available in the cloud and this would be an Enhancement Request
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement
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