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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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over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

Support for Chrome extension

There is a nice chrome extension here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicksearch-for-ibm-conne/mgecppdhghinpakolemfdpkfemnphmid Quick Search for IBM Connections Unfortunately it isn't officially supported/ legacy. But code is open ...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

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
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

TinyMCE wiki attachments should open the details/preview of files instead of direct download

When inserting attachments in the old CKEditor, those links included a file icon (e.g. red PDF sheed for PDFs) and a link to the file preview. So if the user clicks on this link, he see the file preview (if avaliable, for e.g. images) and the side...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Forced Password Change in Touchpoint

After a user loggs in CnX the first time he runs through Touchpoint and there he should be forced to change his pwd immediately
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys in Editor sp. accessible code view

Textbox.io Editor provides nice Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+H to view them). Unfortunately other editors like ck and tiny does not provide such a functionality. In our company we strongly rely on the possibility to open the code view (Accessi...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

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?
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

Addition of widget automatically for all existing users if we enable that widget.

Created a widget and want it to be added to the updates page for all users. When you now enable the widget, you have to add it manually. Adding it manually means that a user logins in to connections. Goes to the update page of the homepage. Click...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

@mentions should only appear in update view if there is an additional text comment

People often use @mentions feature just to make colleagues aware of a certain content without adding additional comment. These updates then should not appear in the updates view also because it is no relevant update without any further text comme...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement