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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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 6 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...
over 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.
over 6 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

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

File too large error - while opening attachment email in IBM Verse

It is one of IBM Docs limitation, please find below link:- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSL3JX/docs/text/overview/important_limits_in_docs.html IBM verse use IBM Docs for previewing XL sheet. It supports 30,000 rows and 1024 colu...
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Turn off document download

It would be helpful to have an option to turn off the document download option to prevent users from maintaining copies of documents outside of the intended Files location.
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

Customer would like to have the ability to save Document Locale along with the spreadsheet

Scenario: Customer is experiencing a problems with Date formats in IBM Connections Docs (spreadsheets) They use DD/MM/CCYY format by default in the UK. But when they're editing the spreadsheets in IBM Connections Docs they're forever having to set...
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Sort Date DD.MM.YYYY Custom Filter in Docs

Its not possible to sort with a custom filter on spreadsheets "is greater than" or "is less than" with dates (DD.MM.YYYY).
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

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!
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

Allow for Excell Macros to run in DOCS editor

Currently Macros are not supported to be run or edited when working on an Excel spreadsheet in DOCS. The request is to allow for Macros already created in the spreadsheet to be able to run when in edit mode in DOCS
almost 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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