HCL Connections Ideas Portal

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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    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.
    over 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 4 Under Consideration

    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 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

    Advanced formatting in Powerpoint presentations doesn't display correctly in Docs

    When you open a Powerpoint presentation in Docs that has advanced formatting, such as a SmartArt Graphics list, it doesn't display correctly and you get the following popup message: "Display limitations This document contains advanced formatting...
    almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Docs Viewer to support - Pivot tables

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21973346
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Default font & size for orgs in IBM Docs.

    Set default fonts while creating a doc or editing a doc. At the moment the default font for IBM Docs is showing as " Arial " size "10"
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

    Upgrade the LibreOffice version that is used in Docs to a supported version

    There are customers that are regulated and are not allowed to use software which are already out of support or already reached the end of life. LibreOffice 7.2 is already out of support which is packaged in the Docs install package from HCL.
    about 2 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Needs Review

    Introduce the ability for Docs to display OLE objects.

    Connections Docs does not support OLE objects at present and does not render a placeholder image either.1. For .doc files, there is an invisible placeholder, it occupies the location but you can see nothing.2. For .docx files, no placeholder. The ...
    over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

    What is the roadmap for IBM Docs

    I know that I have ask this in relation to Pink roadmap, but I wanted to elaborate more detail just for IBM Docs. Can the number of server be reduced ? Having 3 - 4 servers just for collaborative editing does not make sense for some customer that...
    about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

    Have a lite client app for Docs

    Client app was somehow convinent than Web Edition online. You can refer "一起写" of China market.
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement

    Increase the (file-)size limits of the spreadsheet viewer/editor

    At this moment the viewer is limited tot 30.000 rows and/or 1 million cells. At this moment we often have to publish documents that af (far) over this size and that can be viewed/edited without any problem in other regular viewers/editors. We like...
    over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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