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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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Add file to different folders within community

We need to place the same file within different folders of the same community. We would like to add "shortcuts" or add a file to different folders. Right now we need to duplicate the file loosing consistence. It refers to Files within Communities...
over 4 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Make Autofollow for Files a User Preference/Setting

So far it is a global setting if users automatically follow files which they downloaded/previewed (see here for details: http://www.femkegoedhart.com/2015/06/11/ibm-connections-default-follow-on-public-files-is-it-logical/) Many users argue this b...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

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

File Preview shall be able to display XMind mind maps

When looking at Files, several file formats are supported, like .gif, .pptx, .docx, .pdf etc - but there is no support for displaying mind maps from e.g. XMind. Please include a preview function for .xmind files as well. We often use Xmind mindmap...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Moving shared files and folders to community folders

At the moment, personal files shared with a community cannot be added to a community folder there. Likewise, a shared folder cannot be added to any other folder in a community. We therefore request the ability to share shared files and folders w...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Multiple file upload on Android IBM connections client

I take photos with my cell phone while on the road or conferences / exhibitions. I'd like being able to upload big batches of files to my IBM Connections Cloud files space with ease, not one-by-one
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Ability to see all folders in the Connections UI folders view display (left side panel)

When using the IBM Connections Web UI folders view display on the left side, (see screenshot) only limited with only 100 folders shown, there is no function to extend this view. The customer would like to be able to show/see all folders.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Show file is locked icon when in "Show All" inside Community

In the Overview page in your Community, you can see behind the file a locked-icon. This icon dissapears when you press show all. In the All Files overview, you cannot see if the file is locked or not, you have to open it first.
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Connections Windows Explorer Integration

I would like: The possibility to Add To Folder from "My Files" section Also Copy/Paste directly under "My Folders" to upload new version or add a file. I would also like to access Files uploaded to Blogs via the Windows Explorer.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Possibility to get notified if a user starts downloading a lot of data

Customer suggests to consider the possibility to get a notification as an admin or at least to see it in a log file or whatever if some internal users are downloading big data from communities? What I'm thinking about is something similar to the d...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration