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12. Desktop Plugins

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Enable OAuth for Connections Desktop Plugin (onPrem)

(we should have a category "Desktop Plugin" for ideas) The Connections Desktop Plugin authenticates "separately" with the connections server. OAuth is already supported by Connections mobile both in on-prem and cloud scenarios. This is simila...
about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Desktop plugin should support LongPathsEnabled under Win10

Customer is using Windows 10, and has the LongPathsEnabled REGKEYenable. In OS, they are able to create long paths. Therefore customer requests to add support Win10 extended paths using LongPathsEnabled.
about 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Desktop Plugin (Windows) - Support standard keyboard shortcut F2 for rename of file

In Windows Explorer F2 is the shortcut to rename a file in Windows Explorer. This is not available in Desktop Plugin. Her you have to make a right mouse click. Can you please enable the plugin to do so too.
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

Save users credential using ADFS x Web Form Authentication on Desktop Plugin

Use ADFS authentication with Web Form Authentication on Desktop Plugin in so that the user doesn't have to provide the internet address every time the desktop is initialized
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 No Plans to Implement

Show more than 500 files in files / plugin

Each Community (own files, shared files) is limited to 500 shown files - independent of the actual number of files in the community (e.g. 600).
almost 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

Connections Desktop connector for files: Support multi-phase resumable uploads

Connections APIs and web application supports HTTP resumable upload for large files. CDN infrastructures like Akamai or Cloudflare have limited "post" size and this prevents large files (eg. CloudFlare single post limit is up to 500Mb) to be uploa...
over 3 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Desktop plug-in does not indicate that a file has been locked

Once a file has been locked, there is no warning for the user. Actually, there is no way how to check whether a file is locked or unlocked - there is no status message and the pop-up menu shows both the lock and unlock options - at least in Mac OS...
almost 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Preview of images not working with uppercase JPG extensions with Connections Desktop Plug-ins

If an image file gets uploaded with uppercase file type extension (.JPG/.PNG) through Connections Desktop Plug-ins preview of images are not available.The issue was reported for the preview displayed in the activity stream. For example, if an user...
about 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer / 12. Desktop Plugins 1 Under Consideration

Show folders a file is shared with in the Desktop connecor "Sharing Details" window too.

Currently if a file is shared with one or more personal folders this is shown on the sharing tab in the Browser view but not shown on the "Sharing Details" option when using the Windows Explorer Desktop Connector (only shares with people or commun...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 Under Consideration

Desktop Plugin - printer integration

In some cases we use PDF's and other tools. for better integration without any ribons or something else, it might be a good idea to integrate a printer driver to convert and upload any information to hcl connections. This is an request against On...
over 4 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement