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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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Ability to selectively backup and restore community data

Requesting the ability to selectively backup and restore community data. Years ago, there was a greenhouse asset that allowed for the following functionality: Back up a Connections community to a zip file. Backs up Members, Forums, Feeds, Bookma...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
almost 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID

File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID Ex. When we are sharing the file to somebody it would look like below. https://example.com/files/app/s/80XNQL7DrAS0N93MKLmYhnZp40bp or https://example.com/files/app/file/e5eb4e02-4dc9-4c6d-945b-d...
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Communities size is not big enough (50GB per community).

We have experienced that the capacity available for the communities created in IBM Verse is not enough for our needs (50GB per community). When we go over 50 Gigs we get the error "you have gone over your quota maximum of 51.180 MB"To workaround, ...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

Show who voted on your idea. Let IDEA creators see that kind of information.

Now it's now possible to see who voted on your idea. Only in your mail you have the evidence who voted on what idea.
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

integration Box.com with HCL Connections/community

AS User of IBM Connections Cloud, we Werenskiold able to integrate Box.com into communities. IBM had made a complete add-in, just to put in our Connections server on-prem.
about 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Dogear: Support retrieval of favicon through Proxy-Server w/o having set reader role to Everyone

As of Connections 6.0 CR2 it is not possible to retrieve favicons in Dogear through a configured Proxy Server without having the need to set the Dogear reader role to Everyone. Doing so result ins Dogear being accessible for even anonymous users, ...
about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Built-in support for Auth0

Today Auth0 supports all major such as Microsoft, google, facebook, etc. It is now time for IBM to make support for this in Connections.
about 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Use a reasonably up-to-date python version in the WebSphere app server

I noticed strange behavior in my python scripts for wsadmin: It was not possible to assign boolean variables. A research showed that our stack uses an extremly old version of python: WebSphere\bin>wsadmin.bat -lang jython -username user -passwo...
about 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration