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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 ...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

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.
over 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.
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

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 ...
almost 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Allow Public Community Folders and Files with restricted access

HR department maintains a public community for employee information. Each year, some information such as health insurance coverage change so instead of replacing or deleting the files, they create an "archive" folder for that specific year within ...
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

When file is saved via Sync, create a new version

Currently, when you work via your sync folder, when you save the file, the current version is overwritten. Often this is fine, but if you want to save the current version in the version history and make the next update a new version, you can only ...
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Single copy storage in connection Files

When end user upload a file to Files, the system should be able to identify if this file existed in Files already. If yes, just add a link, no need to upload it again. It will save much network bandwidth and server storage.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Share a file once

When a user shares a file with an email address which is not registered on Cloud, they are taken to the "invite page" https://apps.na.collabserv.com/manage/subscribers/inviteGuests/input , and asked to fill in the first name and surname. Once this...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

IBM SCN Connections - Folder level restrictions in a community

When I create a folder in a community and create sub folders in the main folder .Now I wanted to give restrictions to those subfolders as below.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Notification for public file folder only in case you follow this folder or the owner

In Connections 6.5 we use a lot the feature of a personal public folder to share files to all Connections users. In case a file is added or changed now all user are notified. This is not useful and disturbing. Please make it possible to change this.
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review
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