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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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Extension for search

For a proper integration of 3rd party apps (community widgets, addons, Box and so on) we need extension point for search! Integrated content needs to appear in search, additional search boxes in widgets are bad and you can't tell users to search s...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet

Requesting functionality for making the customizations explained in the following document "Adding styles to the IBM Connections style sheet" be available within IBM Connections Cloud https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYGQH_5.5.0/admin/...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Add file comments to connections digests

Please add any comments that have been included during file publishes to the Connections Weekly/Daily reports. This options for weeky/daily reports are set in the user's Connection's notification settings. This will help those viewing the reports ...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Add number of fonts to rich text editor

Please let us know if there are any plans to add more number of fonts to improve the user experience of Rich content editor.
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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...
about 2 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 (...
over 2 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...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

Let every app run on a rasperry pi, as promised

2017 Jason Roy Gary announced "The future is pink": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-Connections-6-Die-Zukunft-ist-Pink-3672015.html Where he promised that every component should run on a raspberry pi. Since java is avaliable for ARM, t...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Support MS SQL for surveys

As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Search loading issue in Connections 6.5 - Files & Profiles

Hello, Search is not working on the Connections 6.5 - Files and profiles. I've raised ticket and came to know that this is known issue in Files and Profiles. Kindly look into the issue.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement