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07. Docs/File Viewer

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Button in Web UI to open documents directly in MS Office rather than in IBM Docs.

Currently, documents can be opened either in IBM Docs from the Web UI or in MS Office from the Desktop Plug-In. It would be helpful to have a button in the Web UI that allows to open a document currently being displayed directly in the correspondi...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists

Allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!

It's very annoying that guest users can't online edit DOCS documents. This breaks the workflow. Please allow guest users to use the DOCS online editing feature!
about 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

Update Docs Viewer to support Office 365 documents

Upload the file to a Community and double click the file to preview. Unfortunately the document cannot be opened. A created document in Office 365 should be opened in preview without any error message.
almost 3 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

Provide Docs templates to start with

please provide a handful of templates a user can choose from when starting a new file. Plain Docs files don’t look very good and their paragraph styles are terrible. Be careful regarding styles to work for non-English languages too. I.e. a Czech d...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to fill in pdf forms

Possibility to fill in PDF forms and send the forms via mail.
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

HCL product dev. team have to improve the quality of rendering PPT/PPTX file for satisfying customer's requirement.

Nowadays lots of customer would like to use HCL Connections Docs for co-editing feature to leverage team productivity. But there are two so critical problem related with rendering PPT/PPTX file. 1. The rendering result of file viewer removed bac...
over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability for Docs to add watermark to actual file in addition to altering the browser-based preview

Docs has the ability to configure "watermarks" for documents and spreadsheets, but these watermarks only affect the browser-based rendition visible in Viewer. Docs does not actually update the underlying document/spreadsheet with the configured wa...
about 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Request to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return

Customer would like to improve the IBM Docs to handle the invisible soft return. Currently, the way how we handle the invisible soft return causes the text position there wrong.
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Add "Format Painter" feature to Docs Editor

At least one document editor knows the feature format painter- It copies the format (Bold, underline, right indent, ...) from the currently marked element into the element you mark after you activated the feature. This is very helpful with large s...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

Support Restricted Editing in Text Documents

Restricted editing (protected cells) is supported in spreadsheets. Using restricted editing in Word files (doc, docx) is ignored in Docs. The document can edited w/o restrictions - Docs is not usable for such files (forms).
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration