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

    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

    Automatic tagging based on templates

    Ideally the template management should also allow for automatic tagging when using a specific template, e.g. Meeting Minutes template is already tagged with "meeting minutes" by default. User can add additional tags when page is created.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Possibility to print any content, items, topics etc. with a print button

    There should be an easy way to print single items/topics/pages in Connect, such as a single to-do-item, activity entry or blog entry. Printing via the web browser you get the whole list
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

    Consistent Emoticon support

    I would like to see automatic recognition of emoticons. So far there are only few emoticons that can be added in the rich editor. But that does not work in the comments.
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

    Searching for an author should return all the relevant content edited by that author

    Default Search: searching for an author should return all the relevant (to the keyword specified) content edited by that author. Currently, this is only possible in CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY: 1. Log into Connections as a user who has never accessed /b...
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future 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

    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

    Remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware

    use NSF as storage and remove websphere and db2 reduce hardware needed and base connections on domino server platform
    about 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

    Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

    With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
    over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Replace status updates with sametime chat

    Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
    over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration
                                        Copyright © 2025 HCLSoftware Limited