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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...
about 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...
about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

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, ...
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under Consideration

Prohibit / Restrict blog creation

There is no rule to prohibit Blog creation. For communities, for example, we can restrict a group of people that can create communities. There is no similar rule for Blogs.Customer request this feature to be added in a future version of the product.
about 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 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.
about 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

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

personalized serial email

over hcl notes by using a excel or csv file with httl ode rtf output
about 4 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Support MS SQL for surveys

As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 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.
over 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration