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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    Ability to selectively backup and restore community data

    Requesting the ability to selectively backup and restore community data. Years ago, there was a greenhouse asset that allowed for the following functionality: Back up a Connections community to a zip file. Backs up Members, Forums, Feeds, Bookma...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

    Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

    Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Communities size is not big enough (50GB per community).

    We have experienced that the capacity available for the communities created in IBM Verse is not enough for our needs (50GB per community). When we go over 50 Gigs we get the error "you have gone over your quota maximum of 51.180 MB"To workaround, ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

    Show who voted on your idea. Let IDEA creators see that kind of information.

    Now it's now possible to see who voted on your idea. Only in your mail you have the evidence who voted on what idea.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Forum Moderation rights only=without being community owner

    Currently to be able to moderate a Forum I couldn't find the possibility to give Moderation Rights for a forum only. By moderating I mean for example editing topics that you haven't created yourself. (The only way I know is that you have to be a C...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    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

    ToC macro for Wiki is not working properly > does not support H1, H5, H6

    ToC macro for Wiki is not working properly > does not support H1, H5, H6
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    SVG image files not viewable in "previously uploaded images" section for Blogs

    Problem description:SVG files are not displayed in the "previously uploaded image" section of blog posts (after you hit Insert Image). To view current behaviour:* Using an Admin user for Blogs, add SVG file types to the allowable file upload types...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Forum description does not support linking of URLs

    Customer wants CKEditor (RTE) functionality to allow clickable http links in Forums Descriptions. Currently this is working as designed and the data saved here is simple text. There is no intention for rich text editor component in those sections ...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    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
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