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.


For more information on products and upcoming events around HCL Connections, please visit: HCL Connections page.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

    TLS 1.3 Support for Connections Blue, Pink and Docs

    Support for TLS 1.3 should be added to the complete Connections stack There are already recommendations to disable TLS 1.0 and customers already disabled TLS 1.0 on their servers. Seucurity recommendations currently tend towrds only supporting/rec...
    about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    Wiki - Link to specific position in a page (anchor)

    It is not possible to use anchors that won't be displayed in the TOC. I would expect our Wiki to support the basic normal HTML feature and also direct reference link wikipageurl #anchorname without via ?section=anchorname.
    about 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    integrate 3rd party cloud services like dropbox, onedrive as community widgets

    And when I say integrate, I mean: Integrate on content have community widgets that show the content of a 3rd party service in an appropriate way for that specific content let the content look like connections content looks like in general to cr...
    about 8 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 3 Under Consideration

    Desktop Plugins - ability to include/exclude certain file types when automatically locking upon open

    The Desktop Plugins provide the ability to set file locking preferences. The following preference results in files being locked when they are opened: Always lock Connections files when opening and unlock when publishing changes. While this may be ...
    about 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Need delete cell function with 2 options "shift cells left" & "shift cells up" in Docs document

    MS EXCEL has "delete cell" function with 2 options "shift cells left" & "shift cells up", refer to attachment of 1.png & 2.png Customer needs Docs to have the same feature MS Excel has.
    about 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Support Notify for all content types

    All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cre...
    about 8 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Bookmarks - Add like and comment

    Please add likes and comments to bookmarks like to any other regular contents.
    about 8 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    Adding new members to Moderated communities

    Nowadays when a new user is interested in joining a Community, they send a request which shows up in the notifications of the owners, when you click on this notification the next screen is the main page of the community of interest, then you have ...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration

    Preview outlook email (saved as a file in files)

    If you create an email from outlook in connections, it is not possible to preview this as you can with word, excel etc. This makes Connections a cumbersome system to use
    almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

    Rating system in the wikis

    Using the rating system, users or members can see how good the wiki is. You can also see how much the wikis are being used. A rating system with stars would be helpful.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Under Consideration
                                        Copyright © 2025 HCLSoftware Limited