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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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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Using IBM Docs as a previewer for community files in wiki pages iframes

We want to publish previews on documents from the files library in some guideline-style wiki pages. Therefore we used the ibm docs preview URL as an iframe src URL in a wiki page. This works fine. Now we encounter additional feature request from o...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Offer choice of context for automatic tag suggestion

When adding tags to a blog or wiki page, the automatic suggestions I get when I start typing in the field currently seem to be restricted to the context: I only get suggestions for tags that were already used in this blog or wiki. This can make se...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Automatic tagging based on templates

Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

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
almost 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Numerical Characters Should be Translated When the Language is Changed

When a Connections user changes languages from English to a language such as Japanese or Arabic, the words get translated, but the numbers do not. For example, when looking at the Communities Members widget in the Overview page you see "View All (...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

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'...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

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 5 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 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

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...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 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 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement