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 (HCEC) - News Slider - Redesign How Additional News Entries are Shown When Larger HCEC Grid Containers are Used

Dear Team, We have identified a UI/UX issue with the News Slider widget in HCEC when used within larger grid containers. Currently, when the widget is placed in a larger "box," the second news entry appears partially cut off, which negatively impa...
2 months ago in 10. Engagement Center Assessment

Add Table of Contents (ToC) to TinyMCE in Connections 8.0.

Requesting the integration of the native TinyMCE Table of Contents (ToC) plugin into the core text editor interface. This feature is currently missing from the shipped product but is highly critical for users managing long-form content, technical ...
about 2 months ago in 13. Other Needs Review

Uncheck all checkboxes when creating activities from templates

Consider the following: You have an activity template with multiple tasks, where some of these tasks are assigned to several people. People have already checked their tasks as finished and some tasks are also marked as completed. Now, when you cre...
15 days ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities Needs Review

Increase file size limit for name pronunciation audio uploads

Requesting an increase to the current 100KB file size limit for name pronunciation audio uploads within the Profiles application, as this constraint is insufficient to accommodate longer or more complex names while maintaining professional audio q...
2 months ago in 04. Profiles Assessment

Customize the Profiles data model to add "date" field type

Ability to customize the Profiles data model to add "date" field type mentioned in customControls.ftl . This was supported in versions prior to V8. Please refer to documentation for previous version https://ds-infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/...
3 months ago in 04. Profiles Needs Review

Restore App Registry (Customizer) Support for Community Widget Extensions in On-Premises Environments

In HCL Connections 6.5 Multi-Tenant (MT), administrators could dynamically add custom community widgets to the "Add Apps" palette using the App Registry (Customizer). Current architecture for Connections 8.0 On-Premises has deprecated this dynamic...
3 months ago in 13. Other Assessment
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...
almost 8 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 ...
almost 8 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins Under Consideration
195 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...
almost 8 years ago in 02. Communities Future Consideration

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/...
3 months ago in 10. Engagement Center Assessment
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