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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    Include the IBM developed System Applications from Portal legacy in every port to HCL DX containerized.

    There are about a dozen IBM created system applications included in WebSphere Application Server (ND) that could be inadvertently dropped if and when WAS is replaced by a non-royalty JVM like Liberty. Our company relies on one or two of these apps...
    3 months ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Needs Review

    Fix assigning community template admin roles

    Right now access to these roles is defined in a file on the file system using the UUID of the user, this is not maintainable and does not allow for automation. This should be possible to be done using LDAP groups. Please fix this as in big environ...
    over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Search Connector for the Microsoft Search or SharePoint Online Search (Office 365)

    For customers which are using Office 365 and Connections it is useful to search directly in one big search index. This could be realized with a search connector for the Microsoft Search (Office.com) or for the SharePoint Online Search (Hybrid Clou...
    over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Under Consideration

    Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

    It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Enhancement Request: Please change the algorithm of profile search from morphological analysis search to n-gram analysis search in Japanese environment.

    The customer wants to use Profile to make and extend their employees' human network. However, the quality of Profile search in Japanese environment isn't good because we found that some search keywords don't hit. The solution for this problem is t...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Expiration Date for Wikis and Files

    We miss the function of setting an expiration date. That's very useful. Especially if a document or a wiki is out of date you will be notified by e-mail that you have to create a more recent version. Great NEED with us!
    over 6 years ago in 13. Other 5 Assessment

    Allow community files to be shared across multiple community folders

    There is a documented limitation that indicates "you can put a community owned file in only one community folder." This is inconsistent with personal files which allow files to be shared with multiple folders. Allowing a community file to be share...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Realtime Chat and Video Meetings as a fixed part of Connections

    Connections is a great collaboration platform, however, we really miss modern collaboration capabilities other platforms provide. As you certainly know, there are other platforms in the market which are very limited in their content-sharing capabi...
    about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Don't show restricted communities where you are NOT a member in Community Overview

    It is possible that somebody creates a restricted community and checks the option to show community name to the organisation. If you where a member in the past for that community, but not anymore, you still see the community in "My Communities" ...
    about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Consistent customization over all applications

    It is a real pain to change the UI to any Corporate Identity because WebSphere Apps use different UI elements than Component Pack ones. All “integrated” apps like Invite, Touchpoint, Tailored Experience Wizard, ICXT/HCXT, HCEC need handcrafted adj...
    about 3 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review
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