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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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03. Files

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Display "shared with" information in files overviews

Currently, there is no option to see where/with whom files have been shared in the My Files / My Drive overview and so on. It is visible that the file has been shared but to know the details, you have to open the file and check the sharing informa...
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 2 Needs Review

Support for Visio filetype (preview, edit in desktop client etc)

CP works fine with Word and Excel: you can upload them, place them in a community, watch in as a preview, and edit them (in a desktop client). Unfortunately those functions don't seem to work for Visio-files. We use those a lot, and right now it's...
about 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Hide public files

Hello everyone, the Connections installation operated in our data center is shared by several municipalities connected to us. Occasionally, the erroneous sharing of a file with the "everyone in my organization" permission level leads to a file bei...
11 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

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

Improve handling of deleted folders

Files application works in a way that when you are working on that specific folder, and you open another application, and then go back to Files application, the system will redirect you to the last folder you visited. If someone deletes that folde...
over 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

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

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.
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID

File sharing URL to use filename instead of ID Ex. When we are sharing the file to somebody it would look like below. https://example.com/files/app/s/80XNQL7DrAS0N93MKLmYhnZp40bp or https://example.com/files/app/file/e5eb4e02-4dc9-4c6d-945b-d...
about 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Microsoft Office shows UUID instead of folder names at the overview with recently opened files

If I open for example Microsoft Word and want to open a recently used file it shows only the UUID of the folder instead of the name. This is very confusing since we have often the case that a file has the same name but is from different communitie...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

File explorer widget should show a message for non invited memebers

After adding more channels in Highlights at the Files Explorer widget, but I am not a member of the community, for example, it would be nice if the info is displayed to the end-user instead of just remaining blank. 1) Create community with members...
over 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review