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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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Document version comparison

Is there a way to easily view the changes between two different versions of the same document in the newest version of the document? We are looking for a tool that compare vision against each other Other than: It seems that the only way to tell wh...
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...
about 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 2 No Plans to Implement

Show track changes when previewing a document

If multiple people work on a document, with track changes / comments, you have to edit the document in Docs or download it and open it with a local app to see the highlighted items and comments. Especially when creating a new version, being able t...
over 4 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...
almost 5 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

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

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

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 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 1 No Plans to Implement

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 5 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

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 4 years ago in 07. Docs/File Viewer 0 No Plans to Implement