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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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Ability to drag and drop one or multiple files into WIki "Insert/Edit Image" editor.

I wish I had the ability to drag and drop one or multiple files into WIki "Insert/Edit Image" editor. It would save me alot of time.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

I wish I could "duplicate" a wiki page (i.e., Copy of <page name>)

I wish I could "duplicate" a page (i.e., Copy of <page name>). Before the page is saved, I can edit the name - or it is saved with the COPY OF name.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Future Consideration

I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole)

I wish I could copy a community (or its content in whole) - and when copied, it is named "Copy of <original name>" unless I edit the name before it is saved the first time. Maybe also include a choice on whether to copy comments and attachm...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 2 Future Consideration

I wish the "Add Apps" were an alphabetized list - automatically

Not sure what the order is now - but it is random. This is a small thing to implement - and a big bang in UX/usability, especially when you have many apps registered into IBM CNX. (Currently, it reflects a sloppy coding implementation... candidly...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

"Link to files" hangs with large amount of files in library

Since IBM Connections 5.5, the implementation of the "Link to files" dialogue around files pagination has changed compared to previous release. When you open "Link to files" for linking files into Activities, Wikis, Blogs etc, the dialogue uses se...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

Add a Community homepage widget to show the community status updates on the homepage too

Community status updates are a handy and important option to inform users of what's going on in a community. However, they are not shown on the community homepage (unless you change the default homepage to the status updates view) and therefore ha...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Rename Pinned to Favorites in Files

The "Pinned" term is confusing and incorrect. A pinned item usually refers to something that is automatically shown at the top of the list (like it is used in forums for instance) but in Files "Pinned" files are listed in a separate view. This beh...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

To Dos assigned to All content types without the need of an Activity as container

So far all To Dos are part of a previously created Activity. In many cases a document is the starting point for a To Do. So a To Do for every kind of contents - forum question, comment to a wiki, blog post, file, version of a file, profile ... - c...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Support Notify for all content types

All Connections content should consistently leverage the Notify function. Some content types (Forum, Wiki, etc...) don't support it a all. Also, IF user is the content owner, allow them to explicitly Notify. Example: Private Bookmarks. I often cr...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals.

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals. If this were present in the native product, we would no longer need our FileNet deployment.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration