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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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Enable Desktop Plugin for SAML+Kerberos

In a SAML scenario, like IBM Connections Cloud (but not limited to), the customers IDP authenticates the user. If a browser is being used, the user is directed to the IDP server which needs to verify the users identity. In most cases, this IDP lo...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

DOCS edit: copy/paste content with style into a table in Presentation

1. When applying copy/paste content with style from Powerpoint file(.pptx) into DOCS, only plain text will be pasted and all related-style are lost. We need the style to be pasted along with text. 2. Can not copy contents other than plain text...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Have Language Selector preference in IBM Connections to be "honored" by IBM Docs.

Would like to have the possibility, to control the language for IBM Docs the same way as the Connections, either directly (same language as selected in Connections) or manually by button. Connections has this option: Enabling users to set a langu...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Desktop Plug-in: Sharing files or folders with external users

If an internal user creates a folder that is available to external parties, no files could be added to that folder via Desktop Plug-in. User receives a SharingIntentRestriction error. Same issue occurs if an internal user tries to share a private ...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports

ElasticSearch Metrics: make it possible to create custom reports Also, make it possible to import custom Cognos reports into Elasticsearch. This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticS...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

If we install the non-Docker Elasticsearch environment, is it possible to switch later to the Docker-based ES?

This question was asked by a customer in a recent JUMP session: Understanding and Configuring ElasticSearch for IBM Connections (on prem) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10735509 IBM Dev provided the following answer somet...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 Under Consideration

More informative message and ability to grant permission when trying to share from Photos on Android

If you try to share an item from Photos on Android, and if you haven't yet granted permission to the Connections Mobile app to access photographs on the device, you will be prompted with the following message: "You do not have permission to access...
over 5 years ago in 11. Mobile 0 Under Consideration

Moderation features for IBM Connections Cloud

We are happy to use the moderation features in IBM Connections on prem. When these features will be available for IBM Connections Cloud?
over 5 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows - allow viewing Community Files from Excel, Powerpoint, Word - "Open"

Using the Connections Desktop Plug-In for Microsoft Windows allows working with Files, e.g. from the File Component as well as Files within a Community. When the user has opened Excel, Powerpoint or Word and he will open a new file from the File ...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Search - Enable Wildcards as first character in a query (e.g. *nections, ?onnections)

Users tend to search with a wild card as first character. Unfortunately this leads afaik into no results with the current search setup / engines. As a work around a search like "a*[remaining search term] OR b*[remaining search term] [...] OR z*[re...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration