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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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...
10 days ago in 04. Profiles Assessment

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...
21 days ago in 13. Other Assessment

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...
8 days ago in 10. Engagement Center Assessment

Restore blue folder icon color in HCL Connections Desktop Plugin

A request to address the recent visual change in the HCL Connections Desktop Plugin for Windows (Build 26.02.3050.0442, February 2026), where folder icons now render in grey rather than the traditional blue used in previous versions. This change h...
12 days ago in 12. Desktop Plugins Assessment

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/...
about 1 month ago in 10. Engagement Center Assessment

Toggle for "Render-on-Demand" Previews in Collabora

Looking for a way to disable the automatic generation of file previews upon upload to optimize storage space on the NFS share and prevent processing overhead for files that are primarily uploaded for archiving and may never be viewed. Currently, H...
16 days ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 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...
26 days ago in 02. Communities Needs Review

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/...
22 days ago in 04. Profiles 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...
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
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