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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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Additional role “readers” for Community members

Currently Connections only offers the roles “owners” and “members”. For “members” permissions for files can be switched between editor and reader, but this applies to all Community members with the "members" role. An additional role “readers” that...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Option to export all participants of an event

At the moment on our Connections 5.5 onprem system as well as in the Connections Social Cloud there is no feature or option to export the participants list of an community event. Via API calls we can develop a simple workaround but it would be ni...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Add ability to create a Folder Link to a Community Folder inside Activities

Behavior when attempting to Create a Folder Link vs Creating a File Link are different. Folder Link does not give the option to link a folder that is contained within the same Community. Files Link does allow for linking of file contained within s...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Sharing files from parent community to subcommunities

A top level community admin can create a file in that community so that they can share a file to all other subordinate communities and the top level community can control both the content of the document and if it is deleted from the top level it ...
over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Add to the 'Edit Community' settings to stop downloads or edit of files

A community can be used for security of files rather than transferring them by email. By way of an example a board of directors with some short term executive directors (these EDs have external email addresses) add board minutes and accounts to sh...
about 3 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

Initial creator of Wiki page should not recieve email notifications if the community manager changed

f an user creates a Wiki page, he/ she is the only one who receives e-mail notifications of when comments are posted or when people like the Wiki pages.  Even if they moved on from the role — they still receive those emails as they were the ones w...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Owners of a Community should not automatically be owners of a Sub-Community

When someone is the owner of a parent community, he cannot be removed from a subcommunity.We think that should be possible.
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration

Remove Overview Page and keep Highlights page only

If the Highlights page is part of the new Connections versions, why does Connections need to have two pages for main information? I believe the best option is remove the Overview page (or give to Community owners this options) and keep as a defaul...
almost 4 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Already Exists

Integrate IBM Connections Events in Calendar

I suggest to add a simple way to add community events (e.g. community calendars) in the personal calendar of a users. I know you can do it the the IBM Notes Rich Client... but. The users wants to embrace the power of IBM Verse which currently does...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Modify internal community allowing it to have external members

It happens frequently that users create a community and later realize that it would be useful to be able to include external members. Currently, this flag can only be set when creating a community. I understand that this is security relevant, but ...
over 2 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration