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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    132 VOTE

    Move content from one community into another

    It would be great to be able to move any content page (wiki page, blog entry, forum entry, activity... whatever) from one Community into another. Our users sometimes create content in a place where it is not intended to be. Currently there is no o...
    almost 8 years ago in 02. Communities 4 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/...
    5 months ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Assessment
    127 VOTE

    A Real Administration Console

    A complete and userfriendly administration console. With some features such as : - List of all communities with owner, members, creation date, last access date, last updated date, size. - List of all profiles with status active inactive, communiti...
    about 8 years ago in 09. Administration 10 Under Consideration

    Allowing PROF_DEPARTMENT_NUMBER values or deptNumber to render Directory Search results

    We followed your troubleshooting article https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0021499 to set up a preferred name, and everything worked fine. This gave us the idea to check if your system has a column or field f...
    over 1 year ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review
    119 VOTE

    Link Shortening

    Currently all Connections links are tremendously long, it would be good to have a link shortener, which would: (1) Provide links so that the community name can be "read" from URL link, making the community URL link "readable" for every user. (2) M...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

    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...
    about 2 months ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Needs Review
    113 VOTE

    Bridge the gap between Connections and Domino.

    Make the integration seamless and awesome. For browser, Notes, Verse and mobile. Period.
    about 8 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 5 Under Consideration

    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...
    4 months ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Assessment

    Community: Option to notify all community members

    When using "Notify other people" in a community blog there is no option to select all community members. Instead you would have to tick evey single member. That is very cumbersome.
    about 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 9 Future Consideration

    Option to disable the comments on Files-ensuring other features are working

    I am following up on an idea proposed prior to 2019, which can be found here: https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1461 My goal is to implement this idea in the best possible way. I have made some progress by applying ...
    over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review
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