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02. Communities

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Request function of changing the default access type when creating a community.

When a user creates a community, the default Access type of the new community is "Public to My Organization". We want connections to provide a function so that the user can set the default type to others like "Restricted".
about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Edit Bookmarks does not work correcty

The pop-down menu on the right side offers the option to "modify" your bookmark . In reality you can simply and only alter the number of displayed bookmarks in the shown window. If you want to make relevant changes you have to go into the applicat...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Copy an existing community incl. all members

It would be helpful if a user would have the following options / choice when copying an existing community: copy with all members / copy without existing members. Currently all members need to be added manually once a community has been duplicated.
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

UI feature to download all Community Files with folder/subfolder structures intact at once

The customer is able to connect to each Community using the Desktop software/plugin - however doing this for more then 1000+x Communities is not feasible. We are also aware of the relevant wsadmin commands to perform some Files actions or using t...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

If community widgets are hidden option should be available to hide from community navigation bar

If a user decides to hide one or more of his community widgets he should have the option to also have the specific widgets not shown on the community navigation bar.
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

External Access to Existing communties

Currently we are having an option to make internal users as external using the below command ProfilesService.setRole("<User Mail id>",EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED) But in some cases, there will be a need to make existing communties to be available to e...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Externals / Visitors should be able to be owners of restricted (external) communities

In our company we do have for example externals which provide application support within Connections. That's why it would be great if they could edit forum entries, use @-mentions for community members, ...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 No Plans to Implement

Change order of related communities

​It would be nice if we could change the order of the linked/related communities (on community start page), since only 5 are visible in the preview.
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Handles of sub-communities usable only in conjunction with main community handles

Handles to a subcommunity can only be used in conjunction with the handle to the main community. I find this behavior surprising. Example: This community https://<hostname>/communities/service/html/communitystart?communityUuid=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Hope: Only community owner (admin) can edit/delete files and folders, all members can only view and upload

Currently Community Files and folders have below two roles: Editor: (Share, upload, and edit community files and folders) Reader: (Share, view files and folders in this community) Customer hope below function: Only community owner (admin) can edit...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement
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