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

    Use a reasonably up-to-date python version in the WebSphere app server

    I noticed strange behavior in my python scripts for wsadmin: It was not possible to assign boolean variables. A research showed that our stack uses an extremly old version of python: WebSphere\bin>wsadmin.bat -lang jython -username user -passwo...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 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

    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

    Important To Me bar (ITM) in Orient Me (OM) should allow pretty bubbles (with images) that can filter for event generators

    When pushing events to the activity stream of people or communities, it gets important to be able to filter events by their generator (like "all salesforce events", "all SAP events" etc.). This is possible using the app registry by using the ITM...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 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
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