Skip to Main Content
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

Communities with names that contain @ sign are not ranked properly in search results

A '@' special character is causing the community name to be searched as two terms. E.g. a name like XY@AB-CD is not found as a whole. The sign @ avoids that the whole phrase can be found (e.g. “XY@AB-CD”) or in a good ranking (result page 10 or mo...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

To Do Items - activities. Ability to create workstream notifications/email of upcomming to-do items. This is above and beyond the due date. Specify a date to signal reminder to work item that is due

No description provided
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Fix small font size of "pre" formattings

When selecting "pre" as formatting-template, TinyMCE uses a very small font-size (seems to be around 10x). This make it hard to read the pre-formatted code in the editor. This should be increased by default to a few pixel more, so that can be read...
over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Community search has issues with hyphens and project numbers

Having a community called "P-01234 - MyProject-Name" it's not possible to search for naming segments containing hyphens. The following terms doesn't give any result: P-01234 01234 MyProject-Name In this example, it only works by searching for "M...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Enhancements to the Community Email functionality

On behalf the customer, I am creating this Enhancements to the community email functionality: * community to store an email from an external source * the email address for the community page * send an email that is saved in a forum * email to be s...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Provide installation media of software

Some customers request HCL to provide installation media (ex.DVD) of softwareas they were provided by IBM.
over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

User Management - Integration between ADP and Connections LLIS

Customer would like to setup automation between Connections and theirHR Application (ADP) . They would like to send a file to cover (Add, Change, and Remove) of users on the daily basis.Currently the file has to be created in this format https://w...
over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 0 No Plans to Implement

In a community, the horizontal menu will disappear when creating a new Wiki or Blog, if you have enough text that requires to scroll down the page.

In a community, the horizontal menu will disappear when creating a new Wiki or Blog, if you have enough text that requires to scroll down the page. NOTE: Once the Wiki or Blog page is saved, the horizontal menu is visible- working as designed Repr...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Already Exists

Surveys - change hint text size

a customer requests to change hint text size in surveys as it is not readable. Unfortunately this is not possible due to the product architecture/limitation. Leap support passed this to Connections support with a recommendation to create ER. I su...
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

Create the option for apps to only be addable to a community by Connections admins.

Currently you can set up Connections so that communities can only be created by admins. It would be extremely useful if Libraries could only be added to a community by admins. The integration of CCM is cumbersome and until CCM can be replaced by a...
over 6 years ago in 09. Administration 1 Under Consideration