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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Saving option from Microsoft Excel/Powerpoint/Word AddOn

Enhancement Request : AddOn in Microsft Word/excel/Powerpoint makes it possible to save documents directly in our folders/files on IBM Connections Cloud. But we have to check the option "possible to share with external people" otherwise it won't b...
almost 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Under 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...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

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.
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

Add Apps error - Maximum limit of widgets error should be displayed on the main view

When the maximum number of widgets is already reached in a community, the error is displayed at the back of the "Add Apps" pop-up menu. Closing the "Add Apps" pop-up menu will refresh the page and error will disappear. Error should be displayed on...
over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

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...
over 4 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 No Plans to Implement

Add Ephox Textbox.io to the cloud as a rich text editor option

Customers have requested the ability to switch the default rich text editor for Connections Cloud.A lot of our users need the functionality to copy/paste or drag/drop files and images into the rich text editor window for blogs, wiki's, forums, etc.
about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

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 7 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 7 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 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 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...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement
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