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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    Deleting automatically the Docs temp files instead of manual intervention

    We understand that when there is an issue with the Conversion cluster, it also affects the viewer. For instance, when content fails to render, storage space is still consumed. Is there a way to automatically clear the temporary directory, rather t...
    over 1 year ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Ideation Blog Widget in CEC does not display an image entry

    The Ideation widget in Connections Engagement Center does not display an image in the Ideation blog entry. It only displays the text in the Ideation blog entry. It would be very helpful for users to be able to see the image associated with the blo...
    almost 6 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Future 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

    Docs Viewer to support - Pivot tables

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Provide all users in Connections MT access to an HCEC portal for change management

    Requesting the functionality to have an HCL Connections Engagement Center (HCEC) landing page accessible to all organizations within an MT environment). This HCEC portal for change management should be accessible anonymously and/or in a "read only".
    over 4 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 1 Needs Clarification

    Easy way to find free time

    Tools like Doodle are well used. I think that a Doodle like application for Communities can be very helpful. Its possible to build this as a survey, but its not for a normal user. I suggest an easy application / widget for Communities. Importent ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement
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