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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    Sync_all_dns by LDAP Group

    An organization has a large number of LDAP profiles, which causes sync_all_dns to take an extended period to run. However, only a subset of users in one LDAP group use Connections. Sync_all_dns would be much more efficient if it could be run again...
    over 5 years ago in 04. Profiles 2 No Plans to Implement

    Group/Stack events in activity stream

    If an user uploads a lot of files (at nearly the same time) into a community, each event is shown in the activity stream as a single entry. This floods the activity stream making it unreadable and unusable, as other events are no longer listed or ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

    Support Smart Type-ahead search on Microsoft Windows Server

    Currently, Smart Type-ahead Search is only available for Linux operating system. Type-ahead Search uses Solr which is also available and supported on Microsoft Windows. This request is to support Smart Type-Ahead Search also on Microsoft Windows S...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Editing multi-day events in Communities

    Create an event in the community events widget and make it a multi day event, then save. Edit the entry and choose to edit the series. The fields to choose which days to repeat cannot be changed, those are greyed out.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Community events - receive an invitation from mail systems like Domino, Exchange

    Community events is a nearly closed calendar which can be added to a mail/calendar tool like Notes. What about accepting a calendar invitation? Allow mail systems to address a Community Events widget.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Make Connections look like this ideation blog looks

    Connections looks old, tired, and ugly. We have tried to address it somewhat with the recent Visual Updates but those have several issues: 1) they do not go far enough; 2) they depend on Customizer, which does not run for Guest users; and 3) the a...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    On-Prem: When changing LDAPs, there are no commands to resync Groups that are added to Communities, Files, Wikis & Activities.

    CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:When a user's external DIRECTORY_ID (i.e. LDAP ID/GUID) is changed (either by their LDAP record being moved or deleted/recreated), the admin can resync Profiles using TDI. And then there are wsadmin ("Lifecycle") commands to ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Requesting membership to restricted and searchable communities is inconsistent

    In IBM Connections Searching for Restricted and Restricted but Listed Communities is inconsistent.The steps to reproduce are as follows:Create a new restricted community.Mark this community as searchable in the community settings by selecting the ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

    Add the option to select a newsletter for notification sorted by community versus by app.

    Our users belong to many communities and would like the information displayed in the newsletter notification to be sorted by communities.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    GraphQL Support

    Add GraphQL support so we can have a better API experience
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration
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