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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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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

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

ODBC access to community stored files

currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

use email to upload files in a community

It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 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 6 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Option to open specific Social Q&A contents from my mobile device

Users would like to be able to open mobile links pointing to specific Social Q&A contents from mobile device since at the moment all mobile links only point to the start page of Social Q&A.
about 4 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 No Plans to Implement

External Access to Existing communties

Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Provide an option to sort bookmarks by frequency of usage

Please implement the option to sort bookmarks not only by popularity (i.e. how wide spread a bookmark is between Connections users), but also by frequency of usage (e.g. clicks per month)— Regarding the click-per-month frequency could be checked p...
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement