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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    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

    Built-in support for Auth0

    Today Auth0 supports all major such as Microsoft, google, facebook, etc. It is now time for IBM to make support for this in Connections.
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Schedule House Keeping on IBM Docs

    Customer would like to have an option to schedule manually the HouseKeeping task startup on Viewer server Currently, the start time of HouseKeeping is set when the application is started. Thus means whenever the application was restarted, the time...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 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

    Changed owner cause ACL(protected cells) can't be used/modified any more.

    When the owner of the document was changed/deleted (For Lenovo Box, it is allowed to change file owner or delete a file owner), the docs library records the previous owner. In this scenario, if there were ACL settings(Readable or Editable) by dele...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under 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
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