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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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

Introduce autofollow functionality for new community members in the IBM Connections cloud environment.

Currently, within IBM Connections cloud new community members are not set to automatically follow the community. The new member must explicitly select to follow the community. Therefore, this request is to change the behavior so that new community...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

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

Change file format during upload on Connections. Upload pptx as PDF

Hello, it would be great if the file format could be changed during the uploading process on Connections. Means, when I upload a document, I want to change the docx into PDF, so the document ist saved as PFD in Connections.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

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

Have a migration path for Media Gallery of IC 5.x to Gallery app in IC6.0

When migrating IC 5.0 to IC 6CR3, it removes the media gallery widget from all communities.We know that the media gallery is deprecated since 5.5... and replaced with the Gallery app.but we would expect that the media gallery widget is migrated to...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Display announcement on all pages of the platform

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over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability to remove access to the Files component for each user.

Administrator can remove access to the Files component for all user in organization.[Administrator - Connections]Remove access to the Files component for your organization But can not remove access to the Files for each users. Request to remove ac...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Notice that a similar wiki already exists

Currently you only get a message (error message) if you want to create a wiki in a community in the wikis with the same name that already exists. However, there is no hint from the system if you want to create a wiki that may contain the same topi...
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 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.
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement
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