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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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240 VOTE

Restore deleted Folders in Community

In Connections Cloud communities. create a folder, and add some files. Then "accidentally" delete the folder. -> there is no listing of a Folder in the Files Trash section so the Client assumes the data is lost.The files are still listed in th...
over 6 years ago in 02. Communities / 03. Files 16 Assessment

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals.

Enhance native Connections Files to include simple document workflow approvals. If this were present in the native product, we would no longer need our FileNet deployment.
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Ability to share externally from files

We would like the ability to share files added on Connections Cloud with external people and partners from their company. We deal a lot with external partners and it is a hassle to have to save the file locally from Connections Cloud and then atta...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 12 Needs Clarification

Pinning of community files and files shared with a community not possible

2 Scenarios to upload a file: A user can upload a file into "My Files": * pinning is possible in the Files app (via "My Files", "Public Files", etc.). A user can share this file (uploaded into the "My Files") with a community ("Shared from Files")...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Delete multiple files in folders in my files.

hability to delete multiple files in FOLDERS. Today, only in root dir I can delete multiple files at once. Inside Folders I cannot delete multiple files at once. (This is not a feature request, is a BUG)
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 Under Consideration

Create single hierarchical view for files & folders

Currently users have to choose whether they want to view the files view or the folders view. Many don't understand how this work and are mystified that when they go to the folder view they don't see the files that are not in a folder (which they w...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 1 Under Consideration

Consistent file and folder handling - Community vs. my files - files vs. folders

It is not possible to share every type of file in every folder format. (e.g. my files in community folders). Search can find files but not folders or the files within a folder. There no consitancy in terms of usabilty and this is for many user a s...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future Consideration

Create one single repository for all files & attachments so behavior is uniform across all elements of IBM Connections

Currently personal files, community files, (if available) CCM files, blog attachments, forum attachments, wiki attachments and activity attachments are all stored in individual and separate file repositories with their own limits, behaviors and op...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 No Plans to Implement

Upload PDF directly from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Connections

Hello, it would be a nice feature to upload a PDF file directly to Connections. When I have a open document in Adobe Reader --> save --> at Connections. Tags etc as following steps.
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

have different permissions on different files/folders in community files

It is not true that in a large project group, everybody is allowed to see everything. Subcommunities add too much complexity so please add permissions to files and folders, based on roles and names. Some more roles would help anyways (like LOB man...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 2 Under Consideration