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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Provide a Community Template (Set) with Two or Sources

With CNX 7 HCL introduces the template function for new Communities. This includes a subset of the contents of the template community. This uses a single community as source only. In many cases a project or other initiatives might need a set of co...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Replace status updates with sametime chat

Community or personal status updates are short message conversation objects. CNX should integrate with sametime under the hood and operate all short message conversations the same way. Would also be nice to see when I was mentioned in a community ...
over 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Restrict access to members of a community for a pre-defined time

We use communities in which we share confidential data with user outside our own domain. In most cases we want to restricted the access to this data by our guest for a limited time.We like to have an enhancement in the system so that we can define...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

An option to allow all communities to be filtered by guest users

In a Community Members tab there is an option to "Filter by: People from an outside organisation" to display guests from outside a community. This can only be used one community at a time to check guest users for a community. This enhancement requ...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

reply by email to forum for MT

Please implement reply by email to forum for Connections MT
over 4 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Apache Server as the Web Server

Customer would like Apache server to be be supported with HCL Connections. Currently only IBM IHS is officially supported.
over 4 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

Remember sorting of Community Files

As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Link Files from other communities

Currently, it is only possible to link to a file in a Wiki page from the community where the Wiki belongs to. But sometimes it would be very useful if you can link to files from other communities.Please implement the ability to select files from o...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Request for Support from Oracle 18c for Connections

Customer requests support of Oracle 18c with Connections 5.5 and 6.0 as we plan to migrated from Oracle 12c to Oracle 18c.
over 6 years ago in 13. Other 3 No Plans to Implement

Word document adds extra column upon download in Docs

When downloading a Word document that has been edited in Docs, the document table will contain an additional column on the right end side of the table. Steps to reproduce the issue:1) Create a file from MS Word (2016 or the latest version) at the ...
almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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