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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Hide input fields for readers

Readers in a community have the ability to write a comment or a micro-blog entry. But they can not publish/save it. So why is their the possibility to use the input field. For a greater user experience these fields should be hidden in correlation ...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future 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 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

Turn off document download

It would be helpful to have an option to turn off the document download option to prevent users from maintaining copies of documents outside of the intended Files location.
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

Each user would like to know the expiration date of his password.

Each user of Connections wants to have the ability to see the expiration date of his password. IDEACNCTNS -I-907 was a request for the ability for administrators to see the password expiration dates for all users.
about 4 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

See IDEACNCTNS-I-601 - not fixed yet!

EXIF information is ignored by Connections if a picture is taken on mobile and uploaded. Not fixed in current 6.0 CR on server side even if feedback indicates that there was some change in the mobile app to address this.
over 6 years ago in 11. Mobile 1 Under Consideration

RTE in status update (post text field)

Currently the status won't accept rich text (that include formating, pictures, etc).
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Customize default email settings for community members

Currently community email settings has below options: 1) Members can email the entire community 2) Members can email owners only 3) Members cannot email others We would like to keep option #2 from above and remove the option #1 in regards to who m...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Schedule MS Teams Meeting from Connections Events

Planning Events in Connections is great, but it would be even more useful, if there was an ability to schedule a MS Teams Meeting directly from there. Just like it works in Outlook. Add a button to the 'create event' view and add that meeting invi...
about 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 No Plans to Implement

Introduce option for Restricted Access to all Communities for certain users (Profiles)

Even that it sounds strange in social software, in some cases (e.g. short term employed person working in a project) line of business requests that users even can access public or moderated communities is case that they are a named member.Please i...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Let every app run on a rasperry pi, as promised

2017 Jason Roy Gary announced "The future is pink": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-Connections-6-Die-Zukunft-ist-Pink-3672015.html Where he promised that every component should run on a raspberry pi. Since java is avaliable for ARM, t...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement
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