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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    Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

    Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
    almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

    External user access cannot be restricted

    When you add external users in HCL Connections, you are unable to restrict their access. Specifically, it is not possible to provide read-only access to external users once they have been added to HCL Connections. This limitation poses a security ...
    about 1 year ago in  0 Needs Review

    Allow photos in the blog post comments

    Currently you can comment on blog posts only with text. But it would be great if you could add a photo to post a comment.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    filetypes for Docs Viewer - add OneNote (.one) support

    Please add OneNote support for Docs. Viewing these files would be helpful for most companys using OneNote.
    almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Actiance Vantage (connections compliance) should support Connections Surveys

    For companies with strict regulatory requirements regarding the interactions in/use of connections, like banks and such, all connections components they use should be covered by their compliance product(s). At the moment Actiance Vantage does not ...
    over 7 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 No Plans to Implement

    Wiki Article with expiration Date

    Please add a experiation Date in a wiki Article. As soon as the wiki article is no longer up-to-date you should receive a message via email to update it.
    almost 8 years ago in  2 No Plans to Implement

    Need to set multiple format for the characters in one cell when editing an excel file online in Docs

    When edit an excel file on local via MS office, customer can set multiple format for the characters in one cell,e.g, different font size, colors, refer to the attachment of "Formats on local.png". In IBM Docs, when customer edit an excel file onl...
    almost 8 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Transfer of WIKIs

    Transfering WIKI-Pages from users HOME into a WIKI of a community is just possible with cut & paste for a 'normal' user. Why not 'right click' on the high-Level WIKI-Page and choosing 'COPY' ? Going into the WIKI of the community, 'right click...
    about 8 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Future Consideration

    Capability to align users horizontally when using People Selector Widget

    When adding users to the People Selector Widget, the users are listed / aligned vertically. There is not an option to list / align the users horizontally.
    about 1 year ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Option to export all participants of an event

    At the moment on our Connections 5.5 onprem system as well as in the Connections Social Cloud there is no feature or option to export the participants list of an community event. Via API calls we can develop a simple workaround but it would be nic...
    about 8 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement
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