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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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02. Communities

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Expand the capability for the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community feature

Currently the Copy an Existing Community and Copy Community are limited in the scope of the community data/content that is actually copied to the new community. Per https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/communities/c_com_copy.html ...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Under 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 4 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Reduce notifications to once a day

If I am updating a lot in my community members and followers were notificated about every single change.I do not want to spam my followers. So it would be better that everyone will get only one notification a day for one community independent how ...
about 2 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

Add an administrator function to globally remove retired custom widget references from Communities

We have a large Connections deployment, with over 400,000 communities. Over a period of years, we deployed many custom widgets, that are no longer in use. Through the normal course of a day, these widgets throw thousands of CLFWZ0008W errors in ou...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Share by Link in Communitys – ability to share these files with special people or communitys

in order to create an open Link in the community i will have an overview who outside of my community has access to some files of the community. This should not be a free link, where everybody who gets the link has access, this should be link where...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 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

Invite whole community to an event

Our users are asking for a feature that allows to invite all community members (with one click) to an event. They wish for this function to be placed within the user interface of the event app. As of now, it is only possible to invite all communit...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Display order of comments in wikis / Criteria for sorting the comments

Our users would like to be able to select the criteria for sorting the comments in wikis (e.g. recent to old, old to recent, alphabetical order of authors etc.). Also they would appreciate a reply button so that answers on a comment can be grouped...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Full type-ahead functionality for search Community that contains the accented characters

When searching for a Community via the catalog search, inputting any special character returns zero results. Currently a known product limitation but highly requested by customers as many languages incorporating special characters. Was provide...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Under Consideration