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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    Re-design of Guest Users/Visitor User Model for IBM Connections Cloud Version (SaaS)

    Back in 2016 there was a roadmap for a re-design of the whole guest users approach to improve the management of external users in your own cloud tenant that could fulfill requirements such as: - More control for cloud tenant admins - Overview of e...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Allow sharing a Blog from an activity stream post

    In Social Cloud environment customer want to share different entries from Connections (mainly blog entries) on their activity stream, and when they do this (they copy the url of the Blog and post it on their activity stream) they get a Log In mess...
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Future Consideration

    Make Properties for "Export to PDF" configurable

    Do you make it configurable, on PDF Export, to only tick the page that was open when the PDF button was clicked? Usually we only want to print the current page. Do you make it possible to have a different default for the automatically set propert...
    about 4 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

    Thumbnail generation variables

    As an admin, I want the ability to check, configure, and reset the last rendition of the media file that the thumbnail generation task has processed. In the Connections code, the lastThumbnailEventFile variable stores the desired data. However, cu...
    about 4 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

    As an admin I want to see a list of all Communities in my Org (even restricted ones)

    Create API to enable creation of a list of all Communities, even private ones (without having to purchase a 3rd party tool).
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 5 Already Exists

    Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

    The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
    about 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

    More Performance for ICEC

    The Engagement Center is a fantastic solution if you also use connections as an intranet platform. Unfortunately, the widgets in icec load very slowly. The performance should be increased here.
    almost 7 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Under Consideration

    Multiple helm charts use hardcoded ports for the service definition

    When deploying multiple instances of the connections component pack on the same Kubernetes cluster in different namespaces, you find that several ports are hardcoded inside the helm charts. The provided helm charts must be modified by hand to chan...
    over 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Show track changes when previewing a document

    If multiple people work on a document, with track changes / comments, you have to edit the document in Docs or download it and open it with a local app to see the highlighted items and comments. Especially when creating a new version, being able t...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically

    Allow documents to be checked in automatically. Allow a config setting to disable the pop-up after editing documents in office and check them in automatically instead of asking to check in the document
    6 months ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review
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