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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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Select all Files

Please offer an possibility for an user to select all files with one click, e.g. when a user tries to transfer ownership of his files (more then 2000) to another user. As the My Files page is a scrolling page, the user is forced to first scroll do...
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 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

Add change summary

It would be useful to have the possibility to add a change summary to a new version of a file after the version has been published in case the user forgot to add it while uploading. Should be only possible for the user who uploaded the new version.
almost 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.
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Option to transfer ownership without losing file access

The current version 6.5.x of Connections allows the owner of a file to transfer ownership of a single or multiple files. The current owner loses control of the file completely. Please provide an option to allow the previous owner to act as editor ...
over 3 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

Make files actionable by using activities and relations

When working with files, it would be VERY helpful if you could do a simple thing: Connect files to activities right in the file preview right panel. Therefor I recommend another tab called relations where you can do this: add relations betwee...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Folder ""updated"" timestamp needs to be updated when a new file version is uploaded/modified.

A folder that contains a file(s) does not have it's "updated" timestamp modified when a user updates a file's version, uploads a new files version, or modifies a current file version in any way.The timestamp is only modified when a new file is add...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

File upload - Skip existing

Enhancement request for the IBM Connections Desktop Plug-in and Outlook Plug-in: In certain customer situations we recognized that users are uploading a whole folder to IBM Connections Files. If a file is already uploaded the user gets a notificat...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Remember sorting of Community Files

As of CR3/CR4 Files stores the last used view and sorting options for each user. But Community Files does not, which is inconsistent behavior and hard to explain to end users. It would be great to see the feature there as well.
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration