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HCL Connections Ideas Portal

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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03. Files

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Multiple File Upload in Media Gallery

A user should be able to upload multiple images / videos at once into the media gallery. Again like facebook, this process should be quick & easy.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Automated file compression

Especially for media files - all uploads should automatically be optimized to minimize memory impact.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future 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

Notify people about this update and mail notification

If a file is edited and the checkbox "Notify people about this update" is checked, the people do not receive a notification but only an e-mail as notification.If a person has deactivated the e-mail notification, they will not receive a notificatio...
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Take Original Meta Data When Uploading Files Via Browser View

When uploading a file via IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows the original meta data (creation data, original author) are take with it. When uploading a file via web interface, Connections takes the date of uploading the file in...
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Linux client support to mount IBM Connections cloud storage

It should be possible to mount the cloud files as a mount point on Linux desktops, allowing to seamlessly open and save cloud files from any Linux desktop.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles

Improve the Utility generateThumbnailsForAllFiles by changing code to restrict thumbnails to only certain files requires. In this situation the customer faces an issue with Thumbnails not properly generated. Tracing is needed, but the only option ...
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Support High Efficiency Image File Format (*.heif and *.heic) in file preview/view

Since a longer time iOS uses the extension *.heic in case you use the "High Efficiency" format. For sure you can make a compromise in the device in order to support uploads to IBM connections. Nevertheless the batter way to support the end user is...
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Connections Cloud: an FTP or WEBDAV access for cloud users to download files.

Customer want a FTP or WEBDAV way to download files from Connections Cloud. Currently, customer can download community files from UI, but all these files will lost their folder structure. Customer need to a way to download files with folder struct...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration