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02. Communities

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Introduce option for Restricted Access to all Communities for certain users (Profiles)

Even that it sounds strange in social software, in some cases (e.g. short term employed person working in a project) line of business requests that users even can access public or moderated communities is case that they are a named member.Please i...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Show number of new/changed items (updates) on the app tabs of a community

It would be nice if the interface of a community would show the number of changed/new entries in each app (Forum/blog/wiki/etc) behind that apps name in the left side app menu or in the tabs above (with horizontal layout). That way the users would...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Mail to Community - should also accept sending mail to groups added as member

IBM Connections 5.5 CR3 Members of a community can be dedicated users as well as groups. Unfortunately the "Mail Community" functions does not support these groups but only the dedicated added users. This is documented under https://www.ibm.com...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

community owner/member list report

That would be great, if all users could run a report, which lists, in which communities a certain person is a member or owner. (We have to validate our accesses on a quarterly basis, so this kind of report would be much appreciated!)
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Add Community Type (single select drop down) to the Start a Community Screen

Its is necessary in our environment to assign a "Type" or grouping to a community. It would greatly simplify administration if this field were available within the connections community itself. This typing allows administrators to identify the le...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Add Community Manager (person field or Role) Primary point of contact - owner responsible for maintenance and community content

In our organization we have several thousand connections communities. As part of our monthly maintenance tasks we contact community owners assigned to communities who have no activity for 90 days and ask them to take action to revitalize or remove...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Organize notification email by community, not by contributor

Hi, I get a weekly digest of my connections notifications. They're arranged by contributor. I like to keep track of some communities more than others; It would be a lot easier to review notifications if they were arranged by community, so I didn't...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

survey forms/dialogs - enhance mouse hover function on ? to show the field help

The mouse hover function on ? to show the field help should be enhanced on survey forms/dialogs. It is a little bit arduously to find the correct cursor position to get the help pop-up displayed. It is browser independent. Please make this more us...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Fix menu bars when scrolling

Dear Team, one problem in the community is, that the menu bar on top and on the left of the page are not fixed upon scrolling. So I simply loose the option to navigate once I have reached lower parts of a page. This is highly annoying since most ...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Community quick add content and title to Apps

Ability to quickly add content/members with out leaving community overview page Example: Quick add members Quick add bookmarks .... Files .... Events Dynamically change app title without new pop up window. More "add content" & "edit"...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration