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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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Change the default number of communities loading in Communities catalog page

Communities catalog page renders only 10 communities at initial load. The card view has 4 communities per row, and with current setting 2 rows are rendered in full and the third row is rendered in half, with 2 communities. It would look better if...
over 3 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Future Consideration

Allow common characters in wiki titles like colons, question marks, and others

When creating a new wiki article, it's not possible to use the following characters: \ / : * ? " < > | [ ] ^ + This restricts common delimiters like colons or question marks. For example titles that are written as question ("Wikis: What is ...
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

Ability to select multiple community files for deletion

Ability to select multiple community files for deletion
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

Make "Files Folder Tree" scalable

With us, the question and the desire to scale up the folder structure in the Files application always comes up. This is possible in the Wikis application since Version 6CR5. Users can move the left navigation bar independently of the actual wiki c...
about 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Embedding File Preview

I would like the possibility to embed a file preview in a blog post or wiki page of a file located in Connections. Currently you can add a link to file in Connections, but you have then to open the file in a separate window to view it. It would be...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Future Consideration

Support Rich HTML (& CSS) for Activity Streams

REQUEST: Support a richer set of HTML & CSS for Activity Streams to be at par competitively. For example, products like HipChat and Slack and other activity stream type apps support this. JUSTIFICATION: Perception and eye-candy is core and val...
almost 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 Future Consideration

Improve Blogs UI for ease of navigation/use by end users

Requesting these changes to the Blogs UI as the current design is not intuitive nor efficient for end users. Once a draft blog is composed saved & closed there is no straight forward way of getting back the draft. For the community owner(s), t...
almost 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 2 Future Consideration

Support IBM Installation Manager v 1.9. with Connections

At this time still the old v1.8.5, packaged with the Connections installation is supported. Please test and support the newer IIM v1.9 asap.In ref to this IBM Technote- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/installation-manager-and-packaging-utility-d...
over 2 years ago in 08. Third Party Integration 0 Future Consideration

Need a way to work in a Community Files app “offline” and sync to the cloud automatically when online again

Environment: Smart Cloud Connections Refer to below URL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSL3JX/files/c_files_sync_refresh.html You can Use My Drive to work with files offline, files you add and edit in My Drive are automatica...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Future Consideration

Adding new members to Moderated communities

Nowadays when a new user is interested in joining a Community, they send a request which shows up in the notifications of the owners, when you click on this notification the next screen is the main page of the community of interest, then you have ...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Future Consideration