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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HCL Connections Engagement Center - News Slider Widget - Arrow Buttons are Taking too Much Space

Dear Team, I would like to submit an enhancement request regarding the UI of the News Slider widget in the HCL Connections Engagement Center (HCEC). The Problem: When the News Slider widget is placed into the smallest "box" within the HCEC layout/...
12 days ago in 10. Engagement Center Needs Review

Multi-Layer SubCommunities

As of now there is no way yet to create a subcommunity for a subcommunity. You can only create a subcommunity [Child] for a Community [Parent]. https://help.hcl-software.com/connections/latest/user/communities/c_com_create_subcommunity.html Havin...
2 days ago in 02. Communities Needs Review

Persistent Details View for Files

Files are listed always in tiles. This can be changed to Details / List view in the Windows Explorer. But it always has to be switched back when changing a folder.
6 days ago in 12. Desktop Plugins Needs Review

List attached files as "files" in connections

When files are added as attachemend in a wiki/blog/forum-page, they also will be uploaded in Connections. It would be nice to see the attachements also under "files"-Section.
6 days ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities Needs Review

Table of Contents for subpages

It would be great to have a possibility to create a top-level-page and list all subpages on a wiki-Page as content for better overview.
6 days ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities Needs Review

List view for Community-Overview

In the community overview of Connections, only tiles are available. It would be really helpful to see all communities in a sortable list.
6 days ago in 02. Communities Needs Review

fourth level of community types

What about adding a fourth community type .. like moderated but only readable for a defined group or based on defined profil attributes.E.g. moderated if country = "DE" I do not want to make them restricted because i do not want all the people bec...
about 2 months ago in 02. Communities Needs Review
243 VOTE

Restore deleted Folders in Community

In Connections Cloud communities. create a folder, and add some files. Then "accidentally" delete the folder. -> there is no listing of a Folder in the Files Trash section so the Client assumes the data is lost.The files are still listed in th...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files Assessment
212 VOTE

Automatically upgrade desktop plugin

We would like to suggest an auto-update feature for the IBM Connections File Sync and Share Desktop Plug-In. A number of improvements have been made to this plug-in recently, however our users often run old versions and struggle with issues which ...
over 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins Under Consideration
194 VOTE

Mark Community as Inactive/Read Only

Frequently communities and sub communities are used to support projects. As soon as the project ends there shall be no new contents within this community. At the very moment Connections does not allow to set this community to read only. Please int...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities Future Consideration
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