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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    Support for Forms based authentication for iCal feed in SiteMinder protected deployment

    For SiteMinder protected environments, the iCal feed at /communities/calendar/ical requires Basic Authentication. This request is for adding support for Forms based authentication for this resource.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Creating of externally shared communities should only be possible for community administrators

    In general we do not allow the normal user to create restricted communities and have configured that only users with the role of the community administrators are allowed to create restricted communities. That all users that should be allowed to cr...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Changed owner cause ACL(protected cells) can't be used/modified any more.

    When the owner of the document was changed/deleted (For Lenovo Box, it is allowed to change file owner or delete a file owner), the docs library records the previous owner. In this scenario, if there were ACL settings(Readable or Editable) by dele...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

    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 7 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 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

    Hide one's own content in ConnectionsSearch

    In the ConNext search it shall be possible to hide his own content from the search results. Best shall be own content shall be hidden by default. When I search I am most likely searching for something I am not the author of. Currently I have the o...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    (administrator) Option to set the opening of internet-links to "open in a new tab or window" as default

    Users have problems with navigation in the system after the opened a (external) link to another page from within IBM Connections. Now it is defaulted to opening in de same tab/window. We prefer opening in a new tab/windows so that the user can eas...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Hide (external-)member list for external users as option per community and/or per user

    In some of our communities we have to give external partners access to the data but there are three reasons why we do not wish them to see the member-list and data of the other external members of the community: 1) some external member do not wish...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

    Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly....
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

    So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration
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