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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Change Invite process and possibilities into a more manageable service.

In order to get a better understanding about your invited external users, there is a need for change in that process. Optional choice of security: Disallow all users to invite externals, except for those with the rights to do so. ( Like with Commu...
over 5 years ago in 09. Administration 3 Future Consideration

Support Request for Oracle 19c for HCL Connections

Customer requests support of Oracle 19c with Connections 6.5 and 7.0 as he plans to migrated to Oracle 19c (12.2.0.3). Oracle 18c will end of support by Jun 30, 2021. and Oracle 19c (successor to 12.2.0.x) is the current Long-Term-Support release:...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Under Consideration

Template new Wiki page

​Possibility to create predefined templates for Wiki pages which can be chosen when pressing "create new page"
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 No Plans to Implement

Offer @ mentions function in all applications

When trying to mention another user in ex. Rich Content app on the community page this is not possible. Users would like to have this option in all aplications since it will help with consistency.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

reinstate Elasticsearch Standalone support for Connections v7+

Customers are forced to setup Kubernetes envoirnments if they want to continue using Metrics & Quicksearch for Connections - v7 & v8 only support Kubernetes-Elasticsearch. For most small customers (<1500 users) Kubernetes deployment is ...
over 2 years ago in  0 Needs Review

Move Blogs configuration properties to config file or gatekeeper

Currently, many of the settings for blogs are in a settings file in the ear file. On every Cfix and or upgrade, this get's overwritten. Please move them to gatekeeper or LC_Config folder. Connections is hard enough to maintain as it is, having to ...
over 3 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Need a way to work in a Community Files app “offline” and sync to the cloud automatically when online again

Environment: Smart Cloud Connections Refer to below URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSL3JX/files/c_files_sync_refresh.html You can Use My Drive to work with files offline, files you add and edit in My Drive are automatically ...
about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

Docs: Hope to create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area

Problem: Can not create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area Steps to reproduce:1. user1 create a new excel file in Docs, share to user2 and user3 as Editors.2. user1 select the whole 2nd line of the file, assign "Edi...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Embedding File Preview

I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

New employees should automatically follow administrator-defined communitys

New employees should automatically follow multiple communities. These communities are to be defined by the administrator.
over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Already Exists
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