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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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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.
about 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Review

Transfer ownership folders

It is possible to transfer ownership of personal files. Why not the same option available for folders ? Of course including the files involved
about 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

Getting the numbers and values for users from the "My Drive"

I request an Admin option to know how many files the user have in the sync folder as we suspects to have some users with a large amount of files in the desktop connections sync folder. As admin I want to have a report and overview to see the size ...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

Connections to support .wmv extension on Files Preview

Customer would like to have ability the Preview files with extension .wmv on Files application. As per the note in the documentation below "The supported file formats are listed in this file and appear to be editable; however any changes to the fo...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

ODBC access to community stored files

currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
almost 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

use email to upload files in a community

It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
almost 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
almost 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase

When sorting files alphabetically by name, the WebUI is prioritizing capital letters over lowercase Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the Desktop Plugin: AAA.xlsx Abb.xlsx Acc.xlsx ADD.xlsx Example of alphabetic file name sorting in the W...
almost 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Preview of Macro Documents

When i upload an excel macro to connections, then i don't see the preview when i open it. I have to download the file to see the content. Please change the preview so that excel or word documents with macros are shown.
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

FTP Upload option for files on Wiki Pages

I am planning to host Internal report on the Wiki Pages with text and pictures ( Initial page prepared / finalized with all text / Pictures / Graphs ) . These pictures ( Graphs / New Stats / numbers ) needs to be updated on regular basis ( Daily /...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement