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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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Make it possible to multi select wiki pages and delete them at once

When maintaining a big wiki sometimes it is needed to delete old pages. Now one need to delete these pages one by one. In case of a chapter and sub pages this is very time consuming. Why not like the move wizard an option to multi select wiki page...
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Indicate attachments when displaying forum entry in the Activity Stream

An user creates a forum topic or reply and adds attachments to this forum entry. A new entry is created in Activity Stream (e.g. "Updates" on Homepage). In the activity stream itself, a teaser text is display with the option "Show more". If the us...
over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 1 Future Consideration

Ability to attach multiple files at once when replying to Forums

Currently there is only an option to attach one file at a time while replying on forum topics.The user is forced either zip the files and attached the zip itself or attach/download one file at a time. A zip file cannot be used in searches & fo...
over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Find all my own comments via filtering in connections

If a user has marked e.g. a blog-content by adding a comment (and e.g. forwarding this to collegues of own department), it is not possible to find all own comments by setting such a filter. Only if one follows the relevant community
over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

Add Ephox Textbox.io to the cloud as a rich text editor option

Customers have requested the ability to switch the default rich text editor for Connections Cloud.A lot of our users need the functionality to copy/paste or drag/drop files and images into the rich text editor window for blogs, wiki's, forums, etc.
over 7 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 No Plans to Implement

Orient-Me should work for small on-prem customers

Orient Me is great but for smaller on-prem customers it isn't always possible. To deploy the 3 or 4 vms required to power it. This is often larger than the existing connections foot print (as it's totally viable to. Have 10k users on 4 machines) w...
over 7 years ago in 06. Orient Me/Homepage 0 Under Consideration

Dogear: Support retrieval of favicon through Proxy-Server w/o having set reader role to Everyone

As of Connections 6.0 CR2 it is not possible to retrieve favicons in Dogear through a configured Proxy Server without having the need to set the Dogear reader role to Everyone. Doing so result ins Dogear being accessible for even anonymous users, ...
over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

Use a reasonably up-to-date python version in the WebSphere app server

I noticed strange behavior in my python scripts for wsadmin: It was not possible to assign boolean variables. A research showed that our stack uses an extremly old version of python: WebSphere\bin>wsadmin.bat -lang jython -username user -passwo...
over 7 years ago in 09. Administration 0 Under Consideration

Support Responsive images

ConNext does not seem to support responsive images with attributes max-width=95%; height:auto; See https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_responsive.asp It would be great to have this supported for not having to bother about image width.
over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

IBM Editor Hotkey to switch to HTML Source

I would much appreciate if the IBM ConnectionsEditor were providing an Hotkey to switch to the HTML Source view like the textbox.io with Ctrl+Shift+U.
over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Clarification