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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    Community lifecycle Management

    Community lifecycle Management Is a community still up-to-date? Should it be deleted? Archiving?
    almost 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Mandatory notifications of ToDos and due dates

    Mandatory notifications of ToDos and due dates. Configurable if only as Connections Alert, Mail (even if a user disabled the Mail Notifications) or both.
    almost 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Rest Interface for Export & Import of Wikis

    Rest Interface for Export & Import of Wikis In formats: HTML, JSON, XML. Migration from external source.
    almost 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Templates for Wiki Sites, import Templates from Word, Excel...

    Templates for Wiki Sites (Agenda, Meeting Protocoll, Forms, ...) Import Templates from Word, Excel and so on…
    almost 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

    Follow-up to a Wiki Creator, Owner to check if the information is still valid

    Follow-up to a Wiki Creator, Owner to check if the information is still valid Configurable number of days after which the follow-up was send. Quality Assurance and up-to date.
    almost 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review

    Add an easy way to add Volt apps to communities

    Volt apps could be created by community members and added to the community to increase the value of both systems. Volt apps could then "inherit" the community members (with owner/author/reader status) to control access (for the stages).
    almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Provide option to request access to restricted content

    Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Change URL in blogposts when title is changed

    When changing the title of a connect blog post, the URL is not changed. The URL can be changed manually, but the setting is hidden. Often, the title is not changed, which means that you have URLs with "Test", "draft" and a lot of typos. We request...
    almost 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports Also, make it possible to import custom Cognos reports into Elasticsearch. This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSear...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    If we install the non-Docker Elasticsearch environment, is it possible to switch later to the Docker-based ES?

    This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSearch for IBM Connections (on prem) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10735509 IBM Dev provided the following answer sometime ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration
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