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

    Custom Status Possibilites for Ideas-Blog in Community

    Give the Ideas blog more "status" possibilities like for example here in the Ideas Lab of HCL. Currently there is only the status "Graduated". Many users would find it great, however, if there is also the possibility, so that you receive a status ...
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

    Make it possible to multi select wiki pages and delete them at once

    When maintaining a big wiki sometimes it is needed to delete old pages. Now one need to delete these pages one by one. In case of a chapter and sub pages this is very time consuming. Why not like the move wizard an option to multi select wiki page...
    almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

    Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

    An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the us...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to attach multiple files at once when replying to Forums

    Currently there is only an option to attach one file at a time while replying on forum topics.The user is forced either zip the files and attached the zip itself or attach/download one file at a time. A zip file cannot be used in searches & fo...
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Search API: Allow all profile fields to be returned as like search on Profile API

    Currently full profile fields are not returned using Search API, /search/atom/mysearch/results?component=profiles. So search on Profile API, /profiles/atom/search.do, is needed to collect all Custom Fields for Profiles. The customer would like to ...
    over 7 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Future Consideration

    Find all my own comments via filtering in connections

    If a user has marked e.g. a blog-content by adding a comment (and e.g. forwarding this to collegues of own department), it is not possible to find all own comments by setting such a filter. Only if one follows the relevant community
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

    Add Ephox Textbox.io to the cloud as a rich text editor option

    Customers have requested the ability to switch the default rich text editor for Connections Cloud.A lot of our users need the functionality to copy/paste or drag/drop files and images into the rich text editor window for blogs, wiki's, forums, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

    Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

    Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
    over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

    Dogear: Support retrieval of favicon through Proxy-Server w/o having set reader role to Everyone

    As of Connections 6.0 CR2 it is not possible to retrieve favicons in Dogear through a configured Proxy Server without having the need to set the Dogear reader role to Everyone. Doing so result ins Dogear being accessible for even anonymous users, ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support Responsive images

    ConNext does not seem to support responsive images with attributes max-width=95%; height:auto; See https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_responsive.asp It would be great to have this supported for not having to bother about image width.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration
                                        Copyright © 2025 HCLSoftware Limited