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

    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 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    PDF Export generation enhancement

    We kindly request the offering management to consider enhancing the PDF Export feature by allowing multiple users to utilize it simultaneously. Additionally, we would like to suggest that the PDF export process be terminated promptly upon closing ...
    about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    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 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Services Status Page for Monitoring

    This idea suggests to introduce a HTTP status page for all Connections services. This status page will enhance and simplify service monitoring and load balancing on the infrastructure level. If Connections is configured for Federated Authenticatio...
    over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Disabling the Left-Nav "Pinning" Behavior for Submenu Items

    When you click one of the links in “Important Links”, you’re brought to another external page. However, if you click back from any of those pages to return, the icon for that link remains in the left navigation. For example, if you click “Location...
    2 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Disabling the Left-Nav "Pinning" Behavior for Submenu Items

    hen you click “Important Links”, the sub-menu fades in to the right of the left navigation. However, when you click “More”, the sub-menu slides up from the bottom to the right side of the left navigation. The behavior where a clicked submenu item ...
    2 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

    Two factor authentication

    Add additional security layer on login to add 2Factor apps like Google authenticator.
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to Embed Videos From Connections Files Appliacation in TinyMCE Editor

    Dear Team, The Problem: Currently, embedding a video from the HCL Connections Files application into a Blog, Wiki, or Activity requires users to manually generate an "embed code" and insert it via the TinyMCE "Media" plugin. This multi-step proces...
    5 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Under Consideration

    Enhancement request: Improvement of search quality - Expression variations of Katakana characters of Japanese language

    This is enhancement request from Yachiyo Industry who is using Connections Social Cloud and ICEC on Cloud. Kata-kana characters of Japanese language has some expression variations. For example, a word "A project manager" has 8 expression variatio...
    almost 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

    Connections support for Windows Server 2025

    We have existing Connections customers here in Germany who are planning to migrate to release 8 now. They are running Connections on Windows. Due to their policy they need to use the current Windows Server release 2025 for all new applications. I ...
    9 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review
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