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 and upcoming events, please visit our HCL Connections page.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Ideas

    Remember sorting of Community Files

    As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    Link Files from other communities

    Currently, it is only possible to link to a file in a Wiki page from the community where the Wiki belongs to. But sometimes it would be very useful if you can link to files from other communities.Please implement the ability to select files from o...
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Request for Support from Oracle 18c for Connections

    Customer requests support of Oracle 18c with Connections 5.5 and 6.0 as we plan to migrated from Oracle 12c to Oracle 18c.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 3 No Plans to Implement

    Enable OAuth for Connections Desktop Plugin (onPrem)

    (we should have a category "Desktop Plugin" for ideas) The Connections Desktop Plugin authenticates "separately" with the connections server. OAuth is already supported by Connections mobile both in on-prem and cloud scenarios. This is similarly...
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Possibility to change the order of existent subcommunities

    It would be great to be able to change the order of appearence of the subcommunities inside the "Subcommunities" widget / on the Subcommunities list on the left side of the parent community. sortable by creation date, amount of members, alphabetic...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

    Track usage of Shared Link for files

    When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

    Customization of level details sent by email notification (newsletter) for updates/comments of content in Communities

    IT would great to have a option to set the detail level/customization of information/format of community news letters. The customization should be set per community level. This for IBM Connetion Cloud. The scenario is that often the mail box ...
    about 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

    Desktop plugin should support LongPathsEnabled under Win10

    Customer is using Windows 10, and has the LongPathsEnabled REGKEYenable. In OS, they are able to create long paths. Therefore customer requests to add support Win10 extended paths using LongPathsEnabled.
    about 7 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

    Ability to configure connections so thay highlighted elements (blog entry url links) can be empty or removed completely.

    No description provided
    almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

    Support IBM Plex

    IBM Connections should support IBM Plex for the IBMers who use it. More information for IBMers about this here: https://apps.na.collabserv.com/blogs/connections-features/entry/Support_and_display_IBM_s_corporate_font?lang=en_us
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement
                                        Copyright © 2025 HCLSoftware Limited