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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    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 ...
    5 months ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Needs Review

    Make the navigation header for 7.0 works for 8.0

    We are aware that with the new update 8.0, most of the navigation elements have been moved to the side. We are currently searching for solutions to either customize the navigation menu or have the option of using a custom navigation header, simila...
    over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app

    I tested this on Connections 6.0 environment and community owners are able to see the "Change Layout" option without having to add the Highlights app.This behavior changed in version 7.0 but our users are still using the old Overview page as commu...
    almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Needs Clarification

    @Mentions for external Users

    Based on documentation what external users can do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_6.0.0/user/eucommon/c_eucommon_ext_user.html and what external users cannot do https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYGQH_5.5...
    over 6 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 Under Consideration

    Improvement in Comments

    Inside all tools there is the possibility to add comments (Wiki, Blog, Files, etc). The problem, in each tool there are different features. I believe IBM needs to create an unique framework/tool for comments, and connect all tools inside this fram...
    over 7 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 3 Under Consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

    Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
    11 months ago in 02. Communities 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...
    almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Needs Review

    PDF Export generation enhancement

    We kindly request the offering management to consider enhancing the PDF Export feature by allowing multiple users to utilize it simultaneously. Additionally, we would like to suggest that the PDF export process be terminated promptly upon closing ...
    almost 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

    Community Bookmarks should have a "open in new window" option

    To be sure to stay in your current context, community bookmarks should not only have the option to be important, they should also be allowed to be opened in a new window/tab so the community view stays available for you.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration
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