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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    Have Language Selector preference in IBM Connections to be "honored" by IBM Docs.

    Would like to have the possibility, to control the language for IBM Docs the same way as the Connections, either directly (same language as selected in Connections) or manually by button. Connections has this option: Enabling users to set a langua...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Add all administration panels / pages to Administration Console /cnxadmin/

    The Administration Console in Connections 7 only contains the menu for Mobile Administration and Template Editor, but there are way more configuration pages which are important for admins, so please include links or integrtion to: Gatekeeper / Hig...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    Display announcement on all pages of the platform

    No description provided
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    allow the notification center to open of the 3rd party reusable navbar inside of connections

    Please allow ncflyout inside of foreign domains for having the CNX notifications center in partner navbar.The notification center inside of connections does not open inside of the 3rd party reusable navbar. Currently it says:Refused to display 'ht...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under Consideration

    Saving option from Microsoft Excel/Powerpoint/Word AddOn

    Enhancement Request : AddOn in Microsft Word/excel/Powerpoint makes it possible to save documents directly in our folders/files on IBM Connections Cloud. But we have to check the option "possible to share with external people" otherwise it won't b...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 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

    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

    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

    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

    Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

    Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement
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