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HCL Connections Ideas Portal

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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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

Share by link also for anonymous users

A new feature share-by-link introduced in 6.0 CR4 still requires users (who receive the link) to log in in Connections to be able to access the shared file. However, users expect that the links should work for everybody, i.e. for all anonymous use...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Same functions for the uploaded files

If a file is uploaded to the files app, you can use the files viewer, edit in Docs, can have multiple versions and so on. These functions are missing for files directly attached to Wikis, Activities, Forums and Blogs. Please give us here the same...
almost 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

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 for a Files Admin user to add an Editor to a file

In earlier versions of IBM Connections, users with the admin role in Files could add an Editor to a file. Currently, they can only add a Reader. We could add editors in using any ID mapped to the admin role in the past. We consider the 'primary Co...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future 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

Support for viewing and editing of files with encryption methods other than RC4

Steps to reproduce issue: Using MS Office Word 2013 create a document and then use the option "File" --> "Protect Document" --> "Encrypt with Password" After the file is encrypted with password upload to IBM Connections Cloud "My Files" Afte...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

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

Allow community owners to decide how they want the files in their community sorted

Currently files in community files/folders are sorted by last edit date. Sometimes owners want it to be sorted alphabetically. Please allow community owners a setting to do this. As an example, in CCM libraries this is also possible .
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Video Playback on Apple Devices

The integrated video player, which is used to preview videos uploaded to Files, does not work in Safari on macOS nor in Mobile Safari on iOS or iPadOS. Please upgrade the player to support those devices.
over 3 years ago in 03. Files 2 Already Exists