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 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...
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

RSS feed: Filter feed of followed resources on content type

We request to get a RSS feed of new blog posts of all blogs I am following (community as well as standalone blogs), but only blog posts, not comments or likes on posts. The documented REST APIs provided by Connections do not have this offering. 1)...
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Getting the numbers and values for users from the "My Drive"

I request an Admin option to know how many files the user have in the sync folder as we suspects to have some users with a large amount of files in the desktop connections sync folder. As admin I want to have a report and overview to see the size ...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

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 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

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

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

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 7 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 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement
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