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Search results: 03. Files

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Files - Allow users to change/transfer the ownership of a file

It is very cumbersome that files do not allow to have multiple owners and that ownership cannot be transferred. In case a user wants to hand over the responsibility for a file, this user at least needs to be able to make another user a co-ownershi...
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 24 Shipped

Allow users to remove themselves from a file shared with them

The list of "files shared with me" contains files other people shared with you and can be quite extensive. Sometimes these include files people are no longer interested in or feel they shouldn't have access to (GDPR). At the moment, only the origi...
over 5 years ago in 03. Files 0 Future Consideration

Webdav for on premises and so allowing integration vom macOS

The Connections Sync App for macOS, compared to the Connections integration in Windows Explorer, lacks of functionality. A webdav integration for macOS and linux would help to integrate connections files into macOS and linux. Of course this would ...
about 6 years ago in 03. Files 4 No Plans to Implement

Request for the ability to configure whether files display in pages or as a continuous list

Prior versions of Connections displayed files such that Total number of files displayed Individual pages were accessible via links Jumping to a specific page was possible In more recent versions, files display as a continuously scrolling list.Requ...
about 1 year ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Enable sharing of folders on lower levels

Sharing of folders is only possible on highest level. As an owner you need to give access to the parent folder in order to make people access the ones on lower hierarchies. We would like to be able to share a folder from personal space on a lower ...
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Make My Drive, All Files and Folders available in every Windows Save and Open Dialog

Only certain applications see the Connections My Drive and Connections Cloud options in the Save and Open dialog boxes. When these don't appear in an application, you cannot save or open files directly in the application with Connections. Adobe pr...
almost 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 No Plans to Implement

access all files by a "normal" UNC path / SMB share

we would like to access files like normal files on a harddisk or network share. 2 main reasons: - use links between files (e.g. in excel formula) - automatically upload and update (new version) files by copy or by a file generation tool
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement

Share a personal file to community and its sub folder of community.

A user would like to share just one file from a community, with another user (without access to the community). We suggested to the user to move the file in "My files", and share the file with the user and share the file with the community. So far...
over 2 years ago in 03. Files 0 Needs Review

Ability to set access level to delete files and folders.

The shared files and folders can be deleted by every user who were shared them even the access level is "Reader" and "Editor". Only "Owner" should be able to delete the files and folders.
about 7 years ago in 03. Files 3 Future 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...
over 6 years ago in 03. Files 0 No Plans to Implement
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