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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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Search results: 02. Communities

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Is there a way to default all users to have external collaboration permissions?

Connections users must have the employee_extended role to have external user collaboration. If a customer by default wants all users to have external collaboration, this would make it difficult to continuously add this role to new users that come ...
13 days ago in 02. Communities 0 Needs Review

Automatically enable “follow this community” for newly assigned members

Currently there is no way how to force new community members to follow a community after they have been added to it. Only new community owners follow communities automatically. This is a serious issue in scenarios that require new members to star...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 5 No Plans to Implement

External community members should also get notifications

Currently external users (be they guests or paid Connections accounts from another org) who are added to a community do not get standard notifications of activity in the communities they are members of. This makes inter-org collaboration less effi...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities 9 Future Consideration

Integrate Group Chat Function for external Users in Communitys

Hello, currently it is only possible to communicate with external users via the forum in Connections. It would be great if there was a possibility to communicate with external users via group chat or single chat (limited to community users). A kin...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Don't force IBM Plex to be loaded font from third-party CDN unpkg.com in community overview

Since CR4, Connections has a new community overview, avaliable on https://cnxhost.com/communities/service/html/allmycommunities. This page uses the new IBM Plex font from a third-party cdn called unpkg.com. I already opened a support ticket at IBM...
almost 6 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Shipped

user in Employee role should be able to upload a file directly to an external community folder

It's defined by policy that only a part of the user have the EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role in company. An user in EMPLOYEE_EXTENDED role creates a community with external access. This user invites other internal users in EMPLOYEE role as well as external...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 4 Under Consideration

Ability for external users to follow communities

External users (guest accounts) can participate in communities but cannot follow them. Request is to afford external users the ability to follow communities.
almost 7 years ago in 02. Communities 5 Future Consideration

External Users should be able to use the "My Notes" Widget within a external community

We notice that an External Users can not take notices in the "My Notes" Widget but we would request to make this feature working for external users. This feature is popular with our internal users and should be used by a large number of external u...
almost 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 Assessment

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 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

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 3 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration