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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    Authorise new machines

    When a machine logs into connections for the first time it should be authorized by the administrator, this will prevent stolen credentials from being used on unathorized machines
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Feed other Community's Events into other Community and show them in one Calendar view

    In some cases, we would like to feed other community's Events (calendar) into a Community, just like when we feed several Calendars into our Notes Calendar in one view (so that we can plan our Community's Event without conflicting with the other c...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    request config setting for default community layout in IC

    In IBM Connections 6.0, there is a new layout by default provided when a community is created. We would like to choose the default layout in a configuration file. We would like to keep the default layout of v5.5.
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

    Support AppCatalog for Reseller Customer

    A business partner (reseller) creates the Org in IBM Connections Cloud for the customer. The customer is then unable to use App Catalog. This was investigated and it was found that the 3rd party Application is used in a iframe by new App Catalog. ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Add Community Type (single select drop down) to the Start a Community Screen

    Its is necessary in our environment to assign a "Type" or grouping to a community. It would greatly simplify administration if this field were available within the connections community itself. This typing allows administrators to identify the lev...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Provide full documentation of ACF blacklist rule tags

    The ACF blacklist rule tags are not documented anywhere, so administrators have to guess as to their meaning and the behavior that a particular configuration will effect.
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    Repeating Events, support repeat every 6,7,8 weeks

    Events can repeat weekly and the selection allows every "Week, 2 Weeks, 3 Weeks, 4 Weeks, 5 Weeks". Unfortunately 6 Weeks, 7 Weeks, 8 Weeks is missing. In the IBM Notes/Verse Calendar you have the option of 6-8 weeks so there is an inconsistency t...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Disable preview for xls (Excel) files

    Currently Docs previews has some limitations. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346 In order to workaround these issues, we would like to only download .xls files, instead of previewing it.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Enhancement: Request to add Export Community File list

    The customer wants to export all Files in Connections Cloud community to a list to use it in Excel, e.g. csv format file. "Feed for these Files" shows all files in community. However it is not easy to convert for Excel.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Add new J2EE security role "privileged-community-creator" for Communities app

    Add a dedicated role named "privileged-community-creator" which can be used to assign the permission to create private communities only. In the current implementation using community policy, you can restrict the community types which users in th...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration
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