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03. Files

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For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name

For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name, no additional metadata such as the community it belongs to.I definitely see the value in having the additional data since some content may be app...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Possibility to get notified if a user starts downloading a lot of data

Customer suggests to consider the possibility to get a notification as an admin or at least to see it in a log file or whatever if some internal users are downloading big data from communities? What I'm thinking about is something similar to the d...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Make files actionable by using activities and relations

When working with files, it would be VERY helpful if you could do a simple thing: Connect files to activities right in the file preview right panel. Therefor I recommend another tab called relations where you can do this: add relations betwee...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under 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

Folder ""updated"" timestamp needs to be updated when a new file version is uploaded/modified.

A folder that contains a file(s) does not have it's "updated" timestamp modified when a user updates a file's version, uploads a new files version, or modifies a current file version in any way.The timestamp is only modified when a new file is add...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

File upload - Skip existing

Enhancement request for the IBM Connections Desktop Plug-in and Outlook Plug-in: In certain customer situations we recognized that users are uploading a whole folder to IBM Connections Files. If a file is already uploaded the user gets a notificat...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Folder and file sharing authorization

To be more organized, it will better that, for example, we can share a parent folder with all users and every subfolder with only one group. So users can see and access the parent folder but they can not access all subfolder.
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Remember sorting of Community Files

As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Track usage of Shared Link for files

When sharing a file via link you cannot see how many people have taken advantage of it and, if authenticated, who has downloaded / viewed the file in question. This is important for two reasons: 1) audibility and 2) measurement of success.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration