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12. Desktop Plugins

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Flies Plugin - Highlight External Content (Communities, People, Files)

Please improve the Files Plugin to clearly highlight external content, such as external communities, external files, external users. The current user experience is not consistent with the webbrowser and there is a risk that a file explorer user sh...
about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

request a custom search interface for the desktop plugin

Please implement a search interface in the desktop plugin to get better search results. At this time the search failed with two different kinds of word separators ("_" and space) in a file name. Fixing this in the plugin would require implementing...
about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Get a notification for Plug-in Updates

I would like to follow or subscribe to https://xspy.mybluemix.net/ng to get a notification, if there is a newer version available or the document is updated.
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Connections Mobile App and Desktop Plug-in should consider settings in profiles policy

Profiles Policy allows an administrator to restrict some features in Profiles application (e.g. following, networking). For example, administrator could disable the "Following" feature for all users or specific user types (see https://www.ibm.com...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Support File Explorer ribbon integration for Windows desktop plug-in

Coping from old ER Blog: The Windows desktop plug-in integrates with the Windows 7 command bar but not the Windows 8/10 ribbon that replaced the command bar. This causes loss of functionality in any such areas. One example is the Get All butto...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Track Read events by Connections Desktop Plugin in Metrics

Regarding documentation at https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/IBM_Connections_4.0_Metrics_Frequently_Asked_Questions ... Read events originate from Connections Desktop Plugin are currently NOT tracked by Metrics (limitation confirm...
almost 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

Add views in the desktop plugin to show all locked files (in personal and community files!)

With locking now becoming more prevalent now the desktop plugin allows for automatic locking (great addition!), it would be great to add views to easily identify locked files: Each person should have a view that shows all files locked by them, reg...
about 2 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Please consider to register the desktop plug-ins version used by the users

Hello, as MSP we have thousand of users registered on our environment and it could be really helpful having in some database tables the version of the desktop plugin used , at least for tenant. This could guarantee a better user management and a m...
about 3 years ago in 09. Administration / 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Enable multi-file print in windows desktop plugin

Currently it is possible to choose a file in the desktop plugin , right click and choose print. If more than 1 file is selected, the print option is missing.
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

IBM Connections Desktopplugin add publishing for myDrive/ offline files

When working with files in Connections with the Windows Desktopplugin you have a function to publish a new version within Powerpoint, Excel or Word.This does work from personal-, shared- and communityfiles. Now you can also sync your personal fil...
about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration