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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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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

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

Files in a folder shared with a community don't show up when looking at the community files

Under the All Community Files view in a community, you see all files that are either uploaded as community files or shared with that community. However, files shared with that community because they are in a folder that was shared with that commun...
almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Make locked files more visible

Locked files have an icon indicating it in the list view and the custom view only. If a externally shared file is locked, there's no indicator in the grid view. Only the yellow link appears. If a file is locked, it should be more visible. Maybe so...
almost 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Future Consideration

Adjust folder sorting in the Files app

It is currently not possible to sort the folders in the Files app as desired. It would be great if each user could individually adjust the sorting of the folders in the Webview. For example by folder size or by name.
about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Files section cursor

In the "Files" section, when moving the cursor over "All Community Files" instead of turning into a pointer as it does with "Community Folders", it becomes a text cursor (bracket). Same for "Trash". While not impossible to use, users who are not f...
about 3 years ago in 03. Files 1 Needs Clarification

Expiration-date for files that are shared with few persons only

There shoud be the option to add an expiriation date or -period to files, that are shared with single persons only. The file will automatically move to the recycle bin after the expiration time and be processed as usual (extinction after defined p...
about 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Block/Restrict personal files upload - My Files

Customer would like to have the ability to block or restrict users (by role) to upload personal files on Files application (My Files), and allow them to use the Files into the Communities
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Allow method for bulk transfer of file ownership in Connections UI by someone other than the owner

Requesting the feature to enable another user other than the owner of files to perform a bulk transfer of file ownership through the Connections UI. For example, a possible feature change would be to introduce within the Connections UI a method to...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

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