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

All ideas

Showing 172

Update the connections-integration-feature

Within HCL Connections it is possible to enable Sametime awareness and click-to-chat. When you use click-to-chat the old Sametime 9 web-ui opens, which is old and does not contain persistent chat history. Please update this feature fast (similar t...
almost 2 years ago in  1 Needs Review

When adding apps through the new highlights bar in the top (v7) the customize section will close after every app

In Connections v7, you can now add apps to a community using the Highlights "Customize" bar. However, every time you add an app, the Customize section is closed. While every time you add a widget (second tab), it remains open. Users find this anno...
almost 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

None of the RSS feeds provided in connections work in the highlights RSS/Feed widget

There is a RSS/Feed widget that allows you to show content from an RSS or ATOM feed. however, the feeds that HCL Connections generates itself don't work in this widget (other external feeds do). Being able to use the RSS feeder to show for instanc...
almost 2 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 0 Needs Review

File explorer widget should show a message for non invited memebers

After adding more channels in Highlights at the Files Explorer widget, but I am not a member of the community, for example, it would be nice if the info is displayed to the end-user instead of just remaining blank. 1) Create community with members...
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

change mail-service deployment in Component Pack

The documentation https://help.hcltechsw.com/connections/v7/admin/install/c_OM_install_starter_stacks.html?hl=mail-service tells us, that Orient Me needs the deployment mail-service (pod). Suggestion, change the mail-service deployment, so that th...
almost 2 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Needs Review

Modify date range of Status Update Search result

It seems that Status Update Search prioritizes recent updates (i.e. updates less than 31 days old). This was seen even in Connections 5.5 environment It would be useful to be able to have control of the date range of the results of this search fun...
almost 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

PROF_PREFERRED_FIRST_NAME entry to show everywhere in Connections Environment

Hi! We made a customization in our environment where we made an entry to have the nickname or the preferred name of our user to show in the connections. However, we just found out that it is only showing in Profiles and Business Card. What we are ...
almost 2 years ago in 04. Profiles 0 Needs Review

Highlights page navigation menu in communities

Hi guys, The option to use the wiki as a navigation structure is one of the strong features of the Highlights page. However... The way it is currently styled is looking pretty clunky and unprofessional... Without asking for any major updates her.....
almost 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Connections Search is case-sensitive - how to disable ?

Search application in Connections seems to be case-sensitive. For example, a search for "Apple" returns results, while a search for "apple" results in zero hits. When we configured English and German dictionary in search-config.xml with german as ...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review

dbWizard didn't create XCC and ESSAPPS

Customers don't notice it until Connections is installed. After that customers creates DB by manual.(creadDb and appGrants) Please create these DBs automatically by dbWizrd.
over 2 years ago in 13. Other 0 Needs Review