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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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07. Docs/File Viewer

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Ability within Docs to specify multiple font colors within a spreadsheet cell

This is a request to introduce the ability within Docs to specify multiple font colors within a spreadsheet cell. Currently, within the Docs editor, the only option is to select one uniform color to set the text within the cell. However, when work...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Allow using filters if cell is protected

Docs disables using filters if it is placed in a protected cell (spread sheet). Excel alllows filtering in such case. Therefore users can't filter online and filters can't changed (inactivated) online if a user upload a sheet with set filters. Ple...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Connections cloud - please add thumbnails and Docs preview for csv and Visio Files

We are working a lot with csv and visio Files. Our users would like to see on Thumbnails in grid format already the first page preview of file contents and on docs viewer these types should be supported. Our users don't like to see the info - no p...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Docs Co-Editing show in depth changes made to files

As a couple of people were working on a file they did not know they were in co-editing.One left and the other made changes to Values the other Person changed. Him leaving the files the changes of the first person wont be changed and can't be track...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

Open docs/files attached to activities in IBM's own viewer

Documents that are stored in community folders are opened in IBM's own viewer with at the right side the panel with version-information etcera. However documents that are attached to activities are opened with the viewer (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Open files directly in specific applications from within the browser

If users are receiving file links, the files get previewed within the browser. If they then want to edit the file directly in the specific application and not in the online editor the file needs to be downloaded, saved in an intermediate place and...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

WsAdmin Command for IBM Connections Docs View List

A command to change the ViewerList. Only the names should be displayed.
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Ability to @mention all community members while editing a document

Currently by default, when editing a community file (document) in IBM Docs, only the community owner appears listed during attempt to @mention another editor within a comment of a document. The current getUserList method used during the Docs Edito...
over 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

Preview Files for Anonymous User

If an organization has anonymous user (e.g. workers not having/using a computer and therefore not having an account/email) which occasionally need to check the news in Connections, they are unable to see (preview) the content of public files. Plea...
almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 No Plans to Implement

IBM Docs Colour Picker

It would be very useful to implement a "Colour Picker" for a bigger range of colours.
almost 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration