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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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Save the last setting on sorting files

User can sort the files to be listed by Name, Updated, Views, Comments and Likes but it does not keep the settings. This setting should be kept so the user don´t need to change it everytime.
over 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Enable/Allow AVIF Format

Please allow images in avif format. This seems to be only prohibited in the frontend, i.e. if I rename the extension of a *.jpg to *.avif I can upload an image and it will be displayed correctly. But this is a dirty workaround. You have very littl...
4 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Share a file with expiry date.

Share a file with expiry date. Sharepoint like.
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Please add capability to share a personal file with an external enabled community

Currently, when sharing files, i can only share either to a person or an internal community. If a user wanted to share a personal file with an external enabled community the user is not able to
10 months ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
almost 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

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...
over 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...
over 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...
about 1 year 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 ...
almost 2 years 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