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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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Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

E-mail notifications only from individual communities

Currently I get from each community I follow email notifications. For the future, it would be better if I could again choose from which communities I get e-mail notifications. It can also be because I only want to follow a community, but do not wa...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Already Exists

Have a "share to zoom chat" file action in cnx files

Just like the well adopted "share file to WWS" feature, we would like to see a "share file to zoom chat" feature. It would actually be enough to post a cryptic URL of the file to the zoom chat since it is capable of urlunfurling and displays a pre...
about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com/s...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Insights about Community Followers

The owners of a community should have the possibility to get the list of their followers.
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

what do the share options when uploading a file in Connections mean?

In connections, when uploading a file you are presented with options to share Share with: ☐ No One ☐ People or Communities ☐ Everyone in my organization A users may choose "Everyone in my organization", thinking that they are only sharing the file...
about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Clarification

Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Support for Elasticsearch 6.x - Connections 6

Customer driven, uses Elastic 6 today.
over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 2 Future Consideration

Implement Full Community Copy or Template including CCM Library Structure and Predefined Content

Our Projects require a Template for their communities that utilizes the same Buttons, CCM Library folders, Basic Wiki structure, predefined Forums etc... We would like the ability to Copy a Template Community (similar to what can be done in activ...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Utilize the Users Timezone When creating / viewing Events

Currently events does not respect the users timezone so events are displayed in the Connections Server time and not converted to the appropriate time for the end user even when exporting to the Notes calendar ... this makes the tool unusable for l...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration