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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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Dont show accepted answers twice in forum thread

When the creator of a forum thread marks a post as accepted answear, this post is shown twice: One time as accepted answear, and another time in the regular post flow. This is a waste of space and confusing for users. Also IT people, since most of...
over 6 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Link to Wiki Page of other Community or native Wikis

"Link to Wiki Page" or "Link to Wiki Attachment" are very helpful. But its only available to Pages / Attachments of the same Wiki / same Community. From my point of view it would be helpful to enable this function to select Wiki Pages / Attachment...
over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Request to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return

Customer would like to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return. Currently, the way how we handle the invisible soft return causes the text position there wrong.
over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Restricted Community: Access Denied Page

When we search the restricted community in Connections and share the community link with any other user then it takes the user back to search page instead of the request membership page. We want users to always get the 'Request Membership Page' wh...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to change owner of a single file

Currently there is no possibility also for admins to change the owner of a file. We have a number of users who had to be removed from our system. The owner of their files cannot be changed. Please let us know how to change the owner of a file.
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

Add file to different folders within community

We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities ...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

allow to switch an existing community to be external

Allow to switch an existing community to be external. request the possibility to change an existing community (with content) to be available for external user.Please add functionality to change the community access level to external in web UI. At ...
over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Safe migration path from CCM to Files

CCM feature has an unclear future, would be good to have a standard migration Path from CCM to Files. Filenet integration is really complex and with an high volume of files is not quite easy to manage.
over 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Notifications - allow me as a page editor to make a change and suppress notifies

I wish there was a way to change a page, and NOT send notifications some times (override watches) Sometimes when you are making alot of edits, you don't want to send a notification to the author of the page for every T-crossing. Watch Overrides wo...
over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration