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

    Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

    Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists

    Make "Files Folder Tree" scalable

    With us, the question and the desire to scale up the folder structure in the Files application always comes up. This is possible in the Wikis application since Version 6CR5. Users can move the left navigation bar independently of the actual wiki c...
    almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

    There is no way to delete multiple document in the folder at the same time.

    There is no way to delete multiple document in the folder at the same time. We have to delete each document with a couple of additional click as like more -> more action -> move to trash. This is not reasonable. Even though we can not delete...
    over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

    Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

    It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    The ITM bar should remember the status, whether open or closed

    We have users who like to use the ITM Bar in V8 and some who don't. Those who don't like to use it hide it using the two arrows at the bottom in the browser. However, this setting is not retained. As soon as you refresh the browser page, the ITM B...
    over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

    Like comments in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to like any comment (not content!) in Orient Me in order to avoid to open the original content, scroll down to comment and like it there.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    User wants to delete own comment on status update in Orient Me

    As a user I want to be able to delete a comment that I made to a status update in Orient Me because I might have changed my mind.
    about 6 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Future Consideration

    Extra field in the "All Community Files" list

    We like to have an extra column in the "All Community Files" list so that we can see which of these files is shared in one or more folders (just the way we can see the # of views) We need this option to easily check: a) if all files are put in a f...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

    admin dashboard

    I feel that so far Connections lack dashboard for Administrator to view the status how the Connections perform. Example, always Admin need to know what Communities so far created, public/private. Administrator no way to manage the file size quota ...
    over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 2 Future Consideration

    Enable sharing of folders on lower levels

    Sharing of folders is only possible on highest level. As an owner you need to give access to the parent folder in order to make people access the ones on lower hierarchies. We would like to be able to share a folder from personal space on a lower ...
    over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
                                        Copyright © 2025 HCLSoftware Limited