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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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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.
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 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...
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

ODBC access to community stored files

currently files can be only accessed for download/editing/preview. However files jointly maintained in a community should be also used as a source for reporting tools (e.g. Tableau). Ensuring ODBC connectivity will allow multiple tools being able ...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

use email to upload files in a community

It would be useful being able to upload files through email with versioning support. Each folder within the community should be assigned a specific email address, in order to properly store different files in different community folders. This woul...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Use sFTP protocol for Community file upload

It would be useful being able to upload files through sFTP, with versioning support. Each folder within the community to be handled as part of the sFTP path for properly store different files in different community folders. This would allow groups...
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Allocating personal files in an existing community folder structure

Users should be able to share personal files with a community and assign them to an existing folder structure, so that the owner (a single person) can spread one file in multiple communities, and update the file only once.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Improve the Files Logging so we can act quicker when a virus infected file brings the server down by making it easier to find the user who uploaded the infected file

Improve the Files Logging so we can act quicker when a virus infected file brings the server down, by making it easier to find the user who uploaded the infected file
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Preview of Macro Documents

When i upload an excel macro to connections, then i don't see the preview when i open it. I have to download the file to see the content. Please change the preview so that excel or word documents with macros are shown.
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

FTP Upload option for files on Wiki Pages

I am planning to host Internal report on the Wiki Pages with text and pictures ( Initial page prepared / finalized with all text / Pictures / Graphs ) . These pictures ( Graphs / New Stats / numbers ) needs to be updated on regular basis ( Daily /...
over 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Allow "Track Changes" also for Powerpoint files

IBM Docs should provide track mode for people working together on powerpoint files, so that you can see what contents were changed. Currently its not possible for Powerpoint files.
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement