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07. Docs/File Viewer

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Docs: Hope to create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area

Problem: Can not create Protected Area if some cells are already in other Protected Area Steps to reproduce:1. user1 create a new excel file in Docs, share to user2 and user3 as Editors.2. user1 select the whole 2nd line of the file, assign "Edi...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Docs Editor for spreadsheet: Can Docs use formula to import data from another file.

We have two xlsx files: 1.xlsx and 2.xlsx. In office, we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx. Pls see attached file: image1 shows content of 1.xlsx, while image2 shows how we can use formula to display data from 1.xlsx in 2.xlsx....
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

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...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 5 Already Exists

Docs.Viewer - support for hyperlinks to headings inside PDFs

At the moment only links to headings inside a word document are working. If you convert this document into a PDF you can not use these links anymore.
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

When edit excel file in Docs, the "filter by" action should not effect other users editing the file

When multi users edit the excel file, if one person use the "filter by" function, all other persons will be affect. for example, if a person use "filter by name" to edit "his own content", all other persons will not be able to see their content.
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Under Consideration

Changed owner cause ACL(protected cells) can't be used/modified any more.

When the owner of the document was changed/deleted (For Lenovo Box, it is allowed to change file owner or delete a file owner), the docs library records the previous owner. In this scenario, if there were ACL settings(Readable or Editable) by dele...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 Under Consideration

Change of text displayed when document can't be viewed/edited within IBM Connections

At this moment only a message with the content “no preview available for this file” is shown. However, it appears that the user can download the document with the options on the rightside panel (as far as permitted by his administrator). We do lik...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Already Exists

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...
about 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration

Editing a spreadsheet at the same time in the files app of a community

It should be pretty straight forward but for some reason I don't see this working. Once you upload an excel spreadsheet to a community I can open it inside of Connections and it highlights the cell I am selecting in blue. Now I would imagine that ...
over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 Already Exists

Need Docs spreadsheet to support individual filter view

when there are several co-editors are working on one same spreadsheet. now one of them filters the data by a column, that filter is immediately applied for the other users as well. We'd like Data you apply with filter does not affect what others w...
over 7 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 Under Consideration
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