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

    Ability to convert users from external to internal or internal to external

    There are a number of scenarios where users may have a job/role change which requires a change in internal/external designation. For example, a contractor may be registered as an external user for collaboration purposes, but then may be hired as a...
    over 3 years ago in 04. Profiles 1 Needs Review

    Working with multible Connections instances

    When working with multible Connections instances, for example one is in the cloud, one is hosted by us and one is hosted by a partner company, it is hard for users to differentiate bewtween these 3 instance. Give the users a interface where infor...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    A notification or mail will be sent on birthdays

    You should receive a notification or e-mail if the person has a birthday to follow.
    about 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 No Plans to Implement

    Improve the performance of the communitymembership social analytics indexing

    We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities, many with over 100,000 members. The communitymembership task, if indexed daily takes 4.5+ hours. If we do it weekly, it can take over 16 hours to complete. This makes it diffic...
    about 6 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Can Connections support the document preview function for more file type?

    Currently Connections support mainly Microsoft Documents, PDF, Open Documents... etc. But In Korea mainly most Public Company use local document file type especially file extension ".hwp". So if we want to extend Connections business, I think Conn...
    about 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community

    Following a specific Blog instead of complete Community
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Notification requirements

    More notification settings. For example, if a new blog post was created in a community, I would also like to receive a browser notification, not just email notifications.
    about 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Add support Java 8 for TDISOL.

    TDISOL does not work with Java 8. Since Connections 6.0 supports Java 8, TDISOL should support it.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Print Activities

    Please add a function to print acitivities.
    about 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

    Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
    about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration
                                        Copyright © 2025 HCLSoftware Limited