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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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Allow use of templates when creating Activity from Ideation Blog entry

When an Ideation Blog entry is marked as Graduated, you have the ability to create a linked Activity. This is simply a copy of the Blog text. Given that you are likely to have a process to follow to implement the idea, it would be useful to be abl...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Optionally replace IBM docs with office online

Instead of using IBM docs for editing MSFT Office Files (which breaks them from time to time) we would prefer to use office online. An admin should be able to chose whether to use docs or officeOnline.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 4 Future Consideration

Ability to create mindmaps within Activities and Wikis

I am trying to use Connections with my clients working on projects, gathering requirements. I am using mindmap builder (XMind) and then rewrite it into Activity or Wiki. Mindmap allows me to gather ideas during a meeting, define after-meeting ta...
over 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 2 No Plans to Implement

Repeating Events, support repeat every 6,7,8 weeks

Events can repeat weekly and the selection allows every "Week, 2 Weeks, 3 Weeks, 4 Weeks, 5 Weeks". Unfortunately 6 Weeks, 7 Weeks, 8 Weeks is missing. In the IBM Notes/Verse Calendar you have the option of 6-8 weeks so there is an inconsistency t...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability to selectively backup and restore community data

Requesting the ability to selectively backup and restore community data. Years ago, there was a greenhouse asset that allowed for the following functionality: Back up a Connections community to a zip file. Backs up Members, Forums, Feeds, Boo...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Under Consideration

Prevent severe error in logs on Notes 9 which occur after installing and running the Connections Plugin for Notes

Notes 901 with Connections Plugin upgrade to FP10, FP10IF2/FP10IF3 . In the logs: notes/workspace/logs The error is displayed: SEVERE error.plugin.missingresource com.ibm.lconn.client.smartcloud The error specifically complains about a mis...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

Dead Links shown in Different Color (Red)

A very useful feature in MediaWiki and other Wiki servers is that it shows Dead Links in Red, when the page is shown. Here is an example: All of the "good" links shown as their normal Blue color, a user that clicks on them will go to the Wi...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 0 Under Consideration

Enhance error reporting when Common application fails to load a .jar file due to specific modules

There is nothing in the log file when Common decides it isn't going to load/process a .jar file. In this case, it didn't load the .jar at all, but we've had errors in the past where it didn't like something in the .jar such as referencing an undef...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

NNTP (native) support - Add to Connections

Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP is the native format used by the internet for News groups (aka Forums). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol for some details and information. The idea is that this would also b...
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 1 Under Consideration

Migration: Add capability to migrate Community from one Connections Instance to another

Migration: Add capability to migrate Community from one Connections Instance to another Add ability to migrate a Community from one instance of Connections to another Select a Community or Communities Export all the related content (including...
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 3 No Plans to Implement