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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01. General/Multiple Areas

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support for underscore inside bookmark URL

At the moment URL containing _ (Underscore) in the domain name cannot be accepted as a bookmark in Connections. But there are several websites that do have underscores - e.g. HCL Notes and Domino wiki (https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com ) Supporting...
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Round profile pictures not consistent through all apps

With IC5.5 the profile pictures are round instead of rectangular, but the new design is not consistent through all apps/components. Please make it consistent. E.g. on the business cards of people on the different apps/widgets on the My Page on the...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

Support for Outlook as Feed reader

When using a feed and subscribing to it in MS Outlook, it is not possible to open the related page. View article does not work. It makes the usage of Outlook as Feed reader for Connections content useless.
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Ability to use Auth0 for authentication

Many applications use Auth0 for login, but this is not possible with Connections.Auth0 should be usable without any kind of programming and customization. This must also apply to plugins and mobile apps
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Calendar as app in community has disappeared in Connections 6.5 On-prem

In Connections Cloud, it is possible to add more apps than On-prem. Including calendar. Since we are now moving from Cloud to On-prem, a calendar app will be very useful for orientation for community members. Why are apps reduced to Cloud?
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

Human readable file names for Connections installation files

Please produce human readable filenames that were related to the product I'm downloading. Filenames like "CNB75ML.tar" are not very handy, I have no clue that this is DB2, it could be anything. Namings like e.g. db2_version-xyz_linux-x86-x64.tar w...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Already Exists

Make lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality consistent in all components (orient me and community catalog)

For me as a user it is not understandable, why the lazy loading/infinite scrolling functionality is implemented differently in different components. It should look and behave the same in all components. For example the back to top button is in...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

CircuitBreaker Messages Associated with Large Number of Calls

The customer is reporting a lot of CircuitBreaker entries in their logs. Development has stated that this is to be expected when a large number of calls is being made to a given application as it may result in timeouts. The Connections code doesn'...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

No Interactive for the shared article event from Intranet

​With the new intranet, we have a better connection between Intranet and Connections, and one of the function is that we can share the intranet article easliy through the "share in Connections " button. but the problem is , for all those shared ar...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

References to ordinary messages

​Why do we get permlinks for forum entries but not for all Connections entries — even comments? Technically this shouldn't make such a big difference.IBM should really rework there linking strategy. Currently, it's... hm, let's say heteronegeous.....
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
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