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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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Possibility to change owner of a single file

Currently there is no possibility also for admins to change the owner of a file. We have a number of users who had to be removed from our system. The owner of their files cannot be changed. Please let us know how to change the owner of a file.
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Future Consideration

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

Persistent sort settings in Connections Community Folders

Column sort in Files should persist so that the next time a user returns to a Files folder, the sort order remains the same. Similar to how Windows Explorer folders behave once you set a sort order.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

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.
about 4 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Share community file with other communities

Today, you can share a file only with multiple communities if you store it in your personal files. Besides other limitations of this approach (e.g. you cannot add a shared file into a community folder), the major problem is that this file is lost ...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

Take Original Meta Data When Uploading Files Via Browser View

When uploading a file via IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows the original meta data (creation data, original author) are take with it. When uploading a file via web interface, Connections takes the date of uploading the file in...
almost 6 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 .
about 4 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 4 years ago in 03. Files 2 Already Exists

Request a function to see folder size

We request to add a function that users have the ability to determine size consumption of a folder on Files app and in Communities, There is "About this Folder" when a user opens a Folder and users expects folder size is listed there.
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

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 wi...
about 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration