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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Connections Community Name Update Discrepancy

When you update the community name through the Connections page, the changes do not automatically reflect in the Connections desktop plugin. This discrepancy can lead to confusion among users, as they may see different community names on different...
6 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

Make the navigation header for 7.0 works for 8.0

We are aware that with the new update 8.0, most of the navigation elements have been moved to the side. We are currently searching for solutions to either customize the navigation menu or have the option of using a custom navigation header, simila...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Watson workspace integration

allow some out-of-box integration between Connections (both on prem and cloud) with WW. All people shall be decorated with online presence indicators and there shall be a “WW space” widget for Communities which would link a single space with a giv...
about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 4 No Plans to Implement

Pinning of community files and files shared with a community not possible

2 Scenarios to upload a file: A user can upload a file into "My Files": * pinning is possible in the Files app (via "My Files", "Public Files", etc.). A user can share this file (uploaded into the "My Files") with a community ("Shared from Files")...
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Complete the PINK journey and communicate it better

Last year you said that PINK is a journey. It began with Customizer, but since Jason Gary left IBM I have heard very little detail on what is to come. Maybe you should look at the way Domino #2025 handle its communication. Personally I would like ...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 6 No Plans to Implement

Ability to share externally from files

We would like the ability to share files added on Connections Cloud with external people and partners from their company. We deal a lot with external partners and it is a hassle to have to save the file locally from Connections Cloud and then atta...
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 12 Needs Clarification

Sametime integration

Allow easy, out of box, server-side integration between Connections and Sametime onprem. All names shall be decorated with online presence indicator and there should be a “who is online” widget in communities.
about 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 1 Future Consideration

Make a multi-tenant Connections

We are providing Connections on-prem for subsidiaries and need multi-tenancy. We have to provide Connections on-prem and can't move to the cloud. But we have some subsidiaries which want to use connections. The administration would be easier if th...
about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 9 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to move the "Profile" icon to the main location in the Connections side menu

We need the possibility to move the "Profile" icon to the main location (Above the "Homepage" icon) in the Connections side menu via Customizer. Currently, doing so via Customizer, will result in the Profile Icon not showing the default CNX avatar...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Securing all Component Pack traffic with TLS

Currently, there are 2 important unencrypted vectors in a Connections / Component Pack deployment. a) Customizer traffic from NGINX to the Kubernetes nodes (30301/tcp) / Loadbalancer b) All Component Pack traffic which is routed via IHS to th...
over 1 year ago in 14. Documentation 1 In Development
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