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03. Files

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Connections Cloud: an FTP or WEBDAV access for cloud users to download files.

Customer want a FTP or WEBDAV way to download files from Connections Cloud. Currently, customer can download community files from UI, but all these files will lost their folder structure. Customer need to a way to download files with folder struct...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Upload PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Connections

Hello, it would be a nice feature to upload a PDF file directly to Connections. When I have a open document in Adobe Reader --> save --> at Connections. Tags etc as following steps.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

Change file format during upload on Connections. Upload pptx as PDF

Hello, it would be great if the file format could be changed during the uploading process on Connections. Means, when I upload a document, I want to change the docx into PDF, so the document ist saved as PFD in Connections.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Video in a powerpoint cannot be read with the preview

A video is inserted in a powerpoint. At the preview, we don't even know there is a video : the slide is empty. Seen in Connections on prem.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Make My Drive, All Files and Folders available in every Windows Save and Open Dialog

Only certain applications see the Connections My Drive and Connections Cloud options in the Save and Open dialog boxes. When these don't appear in an application, you cannot save or open files directly in the application with Connections. Adobe pr...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

Ability to remove access to the Files component for each user.

Administrator can remove access to the Files component for all user in organization.[Administrator - Connections]Remove access to the Files component for your organization But can not remove access to the Files for each users. Request to remove ac...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name

For the Moderation tab on the home page, looking at Files for content approval we only see file name, no additional metadata such as the community it belongs to.I definitely see the value in having the additional data since some content may be app...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

Single copy storage in connection Files

When end user upload a file to Files, the system should be able to identify if this file existed in Files already. If yes, just add a link, no need to upload it again. It will save much network bandwidth and server storage.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

allow unlimited file growth in communities

The 50Gig limit kills me. We receive 120Gig in regular projects as the handover from the customer - and start producing then up to Terabytes. (I do not ask to get that for free...) We would prefer to go BYOS on our own S3 storage accounts on Azur...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 No Plans to Implement

Safe migration path from CCM to Files

CCM feature has an unclear future, would be good to have a standard migration Path from CCM to Files. Filenet integration is really complex and with an high volume of files is not quite easy to manage.
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement