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

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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 ...
7 days ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

add k3s as a supported Platform for componentpack for smaller environments

We see smaller environments, which struggle to implement k8s for connections. Connections works fine on 1 Node. But adding 6 Nodes just for componentpack in HA config is too much for them, as the added value does not match the required resources. ...
3 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Assessment

adding exclusions for ldap groups in appregistry

When writing a app in appreg it is possible to add exclusions for users. For these users the app is not applied. Currently the users have to be listed one by one in the app. It would be good to add exclusion for a ldap group if users for exclusion...
5 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Light Mode/Dark Mode View

Users should be able to switch between light and dark mode, for example, in the header bar at the top right. Similar to what Activities Plus currently offers. In Activities Plus, users can switch between light and dark mode, depending on their pre...
6 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 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...
8 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Stopping legacy Activities application

There is nothing in the documentation that we could find that would indicate that it is possible to run Boards without Activities running. It seems as though you should be able to, but it turns out you can't. Is there any way of stopping legacy Ac...
10 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Assessment

Collapsible sections should maintain selection after changing display

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

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 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

Ability to disable More menu or custom submenu item from displaying on main level

The "More" menu in the lefthand navigation pane contains the apps that do not display at the main level. After clicking an option on the "More" menu, the selection will display at the top level until a different "More" selection gets clicked. Simi...
over 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review
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