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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    TinyMCE - clear text formatting when applying Heading so default Heading formatting applies

    Requesting the ability to choose whether applying a Heading formatting clears prior text formatting selections so that the text is treated in the default manner. This can be via a config or via a pop-up option. Right now, applying a Heading format...
    over 1 year ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Option to have guest logon with a 2FA or any other option to force dual authentication

    At this moment guest are invited by a link to there email-address. However we can't be sure that we haven't made a typo or know if others then our guest have access to the emailbox. We like to have an option that the guest can only access the comm...
    almost 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    possibility to add a document bookmark (anchor) in wikis with Tiny MCE

    Users cannot set document bookmarks in a wiki using the Tiny MCE editor. Our users request this feature. The users need the functionality in wikis to set document bookmarks.
    over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 Future Consideration

    Newly created folders are not immediately available in Folders widget in Highlights app from Community.

    Both the Files and the Forums XCC widget should display content changes immediately. Currently, only owners see changes directly in the Widget when a new file or forum post is created. Members see the change only after 15 minutes.
    almost 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review

    Moderation of wall posts/status updates and the respective comments

    So far the built-in moderation feature only covers blogs, forums, and files. Moderation of status updates and respective comments is not possible. - Flag as inappropriate is missing.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

    The function that Organization Administrator can display the date of password expiration of all users.

    Administrator would like to know the date of password expiration of all users in Organization when Password Expiration is applied. User will receive notification when the password is about to expire. Administrator can provide the instruction how t...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration

    Provide option to request access to restricted content

    Today, whenever an user tries to access content which is restricted (e.g. link is referred in other content or shared by another user), the user gets a blank "Access denied" page displayed as dead-end road. This is the case for all content, like ...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports

    ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports Also, make it possible to import custom Cognos reports into Elasticsearch. This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSear...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    If we install the non-Docker Elasticsearch environment, is it possible to switch later to the Docker-based ES?

    This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSearch for IBM Connections (on prem) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10735509 IBM Dev provided the following answer sometime ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration

    Implement generative AI within Connections

    Implement generative AI features within Connections to help produce, organize, and manage content (end user perspective), and/or manage the system (administrator perspective).
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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