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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Modernizing the Calendar (Event) Widget

User Interface (UI) Design: Consider a clean, intuitive, and responsive design. Bootstrap, Material Design, or other modern UI frameworks can be helpful. Event Display: Use a modern card-based layout or a timeline view for events to enhance user e...
over 1 year ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

Ability to set preference for collapsible sections to be open or closed by default on a per user basis

Various applications have side displays that can be collapsed or expanded. For example, if you go to Blogs --> Public Blogs, you have collapsible sections for Featured Blog Entries, Most Liked, Most Voted, Most Commented, Most Visited, and Topi...
about 1 year ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Connections v8.0 reposition or eliminate tags widget in Community Wikis

In the v8.0 UI, stand-alone and community Wikis have 3 column layout, table of contents (left), Wiki body (center), and widgets, i.e. Tags (right). In prior versions, the widgets were under the table of contents on the left side. This allows for t...
about 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

UX Adding an entry to important to me bar is hard to find

The behavior of the bar worked fine as long as it was horizontal, now that it is vertical, the add and remove buttons at the bottom are hard to discover and the relationship to the first/empty entry is not clear, especially for an inexperienced/ne...
over 1 year ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Needs Review

Add Connections content to HCLSoftware U

Please add Connections content to HCLSoftware U. Connections is really versatile, we need extensive examples / howto's / best practices / certification Because the posibilities are endless, starting users would immensely benefit from more examples...
about 1 year ago in 14. Documentation 0 Needs Review

Most Used/followed Tags

Add a Metric to see which are the most used and followed tags on the platform to increase the reach of messages and find related important tags.
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

Feature to remove specific nodes under "HCL Connections" in Windows Explorer

According to https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/connectors/enduser/r_files_prefs_and_policies_windows.html it is possible to configure the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins via registry entries and disable, for example Activities functionali...
about 1 year ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Needs Review

Search in Blog and Wiki combining tags and keywords

Currently it is not possible within a single wiki or blog to search with a combination of tags and keywords. (It is possible in Forums) You can just filter by tags but not do both Example search entries tagged with 'connext' containing the keyword...
about 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review

Enable/Allow AVIF Format

Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
8 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

The "Tag" widget should default to condensed mode

In Connections 8, The "Tag" widget will by default shown in expand mode, but this take sup usefeul space , which forces the user to scroll to see the contents of a page.
over 1 year ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Needs Review
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