Windward Core
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Expand date parsing to other standard formats
Currently, AutoTag is able to parse dates stored in ISO format (e.g. "2017-09-12T00:00:00.000Z" stored with the toISOString JavaScript method) without any additional input from the user beyond specifying a date output format and type. However, it throws an error when other standard formats are used, such as that generated by the toDateString JavaScript method (e.g. "Tue Jan 12 2017 00:00:00 GMT-0000 (UTC)"). A workaround may be to spell out the format in the Input attribute on the tag, but this is cumbersome and not user-friendly. It would be better if AutoTag natively parsed standard formats other than ISO.
9 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been declined for development. The reason is that the workaround you named to specify the input format of the date is already the supported functionality. Because of this we are not focusing on further improvements to date input formats at the present time. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
IOS support
make it possible to open *.docx files which is generated by Autotag on IOS/Mac
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Allow formatting in set tags
It is not currently possible to supply formatting in set tags (e.g. if I have a value stored as a string that I want to convert to a number - to do maths on it)
I have to: Create an out tag (setting it as a variable) and perform the required formatting - put this tag in white text so it's not displayedIdeally I would like to have all the options I have available for formatting an Out tag in a Set tag
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Ability to Embed Files in Word Templates
I would like to see the ability to embed a file into a template. The file should not be merged with the template, but simply embedded as a file that could be opened and viewed at a later time.
The parameters for the embedding should have the ability to specify the location of the file from a data source, OR given specified location manually provided.
1 voteThis feature is declined per Adam Jackson’s comment bellow: this is already native Office functionality. Please submit any other ideas you may have. Thank you!
Adam Austin
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Custom OrderBy criteria.
The capability to define custom OrderBy rules. We have properties we would like to order by, and these properties return string values that we would like to order by in a non-alphabetical fashion.
Example orderby: (Critical, High, Medium, Low, Info)
Workaround right now is to change the return type of the property to int and keep track of a mapping between the int and the original string.
1 voteHello Nick,
Declining this idea per Adam Jackson’s comment. Please submit any other ideas you have. Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Support additional 'Advanced' options for set tags
set variable tags currently have limited options in terms of setting options.
I recently needed to add a default value to a Set tag and this was possible by editing the tag but not possible through the Wizard (however it is possible for Out tags to do this)3 votesHello Robert,
I have entered a ticket for your request, but since this request has not received additional votes for quite a long time, I will need a demonstration of wider user need before I prioritize this for development. I will be setting this request to declined, but will revisit it to check if other users demonstrate need.
Thank you for your idea, and if you have any other suggestions, please don’t hesitate to enter them!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
acrofield Signature support
We could really use support for inserting acrofield for Signature to docx templates as it would be generated to pdf output.
I do not know any workaround to achieve this.
3 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed your suggestion internally but have declined it for development due to lack of votes. Thank you for sharing your idea and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our products!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Dynamic Word Charts
It is useful to re-use templates and just connect them to a different (similar) datasource. However depending on the values, charts can stop displaying properly. Legends may get cut-off for example.
It would be nice if charts were smarter and automatically adjusted to new data.3 votes -
Every time I change a variable name inside a Set tag, AutoTag prompts me if I want to update all tags. Can you please add an option to disab
Every time I change a variable name inside a Set tag, AutoTag prompts me if I want to update all tags. Can you please add an option to disable this prompt? It slows me down when I am trying to make changes to a lot of tags.
7 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed your suggestion internally but have decided not to target it for development. That being said, we will keep our eyes on this ticket in the future, and if we see additional support for this, we will re-consider it for development. Thank you very much for your suggestion, and please enter any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Make Find/Replace work in header/footer
AutoTag's Find/Replace works great in the main body of a Word document (for example, when a data source is renamed and you need to update the tags that use it), but it doesn't change anything in the header or footer. This isn't very user-friendly. A sample is attached that replicates the issue.
I understand this is due to limitations of the Word/Office API, but if this can stay on the radar as something to fix if the Office API gets better, that would be great.
5 votesHello Reporter,
I am happy to report that this functionality is already supported in the Windward Designer! Perhaps this functionality was added since this ticket was entered. Please return to a newer version of the Designer and try this functionality. If you see any issues, please contact our support team to enter a bug. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Enable double-clicking a tag in the footer to open the Tag Editor
Currently, if you double-click a tag in the header or main body of a Word document, the Tag Editor window opens. This is not true in the footer. A workaround is to double-click the footer tag, then double-click somewhere on the doc outside the footer, but this is not user-friendly and is not consistent with the functionality in other parts of the document. A sample is attached that replicates the issue.
I understand this is due to limitations of the Word/Office API, but if this can stay on the radar as something to fix if the Office API gets better,…
1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally, but it has been declined due to Word API limitations. Since we can’t offer this functionality due to the limitation, we recommend opening tags in the header and footer using the “Edit Tag” button in the ribbon. Thank you very much for your idea, and please enter any other suggestions you have to improve our product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Throw exception if document output = Null
If I design a template, and the output results in no content displayed, can Windward send a system-level notification (e.g. throw an exception in the Java engine)?
Ideally, if the output is null, no document would be generated or sent, or Windward would communicate that the document is blank.
6 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been declined for development. We recommend that you check the variables for your output document that could cause it to output a blank document and use this information to make a decision before document generation instead of responding to an exception afterwards. Thank you for you suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Use pod without formatting
I would like to be able to use a pod but retain the formatting of the destination template document and ignore any formatting from the pod (or not even store the formatting in the pod). In particular, in Excel I only want to be able to put an OUT tag into a cell from the pod bin and keep the formatting of the cell.
The current workaround (in Excel) is:
create a pod based on a single tag
Put the pod into a cell in the new document in a temporary sheet
Copy the cell text then paste into the…1 vote -
Bring back the Gauge Tag
While there are a lot of chart options available in version 14 of Auto Tag, as well as native Word charts, we would love to be able to use gauges for certain data depictions. Are there any plans to bring this tag back?
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wizard can't be used to specify repeated nodes
If we have repeated sections e.g.
<payments>
<payment>
<StartDate>30/07/2015</StartDate>
<NumberOfPayments>1</NumberOfPayments>
<Frequency>Monthly</Frequency>
<Payment>4824.8207</Payment>
<EndDate>30/07/2015</EndDate>
</payment>
<payment>
<StartDate>30/08/2015</StartDate>
<NumberOfPayments>35</NumberOfPayments>
<Frequency>Monthly</Frequency>
<Payment>696.29</Payment>
<EndDate>30/06/2018</EndDate>
</payment>
</payments>And we want to specifically pick a value for the second repeated section we can tag this using payment/payment[2]/EndDate
This cannot be done through the wizard.6 votes -
Blank page detection
A way to identify if blank pages could appear if a loop that spans multiple pages. Or a way to remove blank pages.
We have been having issues surrounding this and have had many defects raised around blank pages appearing in bulk bills.
Thank you
AdamTicket number for support reference #18122
8 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this suggestion internally but we have decided to decline it. The reason is that our software is designed to do exactly what the template specifies. This can result in tricky behavior with empty or sparsely populated pages appearing in output, but usually this is a result of the template design and not due to the software. As such, we encourage users in this situation to re-visit their template design and try to resolve the issue there. Thank you for your idea, and please enter any other suggestions you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
3 votes
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9 votes
Hello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but have decided to decline it for development. That being said, we are also interested in this functionality. We will watch this ticket in the future and other requests, and if we see more interest in this functionality in the future, we will consider it for development again. Thank you for your suggestion, and please enter any other ideas you have to improve our products!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
formatting to respected currency (not all that are available as basic excel formats are available in windward)
we do business in 3 region and use different mode of currency payments such as USD, GBP, EUR and AED.
when building templates with relevant information that goes to finance teams for analysis i used windward(autotag) in excel linked to my SQL database. i have to created templates that are currency specific i.e. if the product was sold in GBP i have to produce all sales and expenditures towards the product in their respected GBP currency. (e.g. £1,100.56)
i have noticed that AED is not a current format that windward allows me to convert the figure too. however this feature…
1 voteHello Reporter,
This idea has been reviewed internally but declined due to lack of votes. Additionally, the workaround commented before hopefully solves the problem! Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve the software.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Make image cropping work with PDF generation
When adding an image to a Word document you can select a few cropping options under picture tools / format ->crop. You can choose whether to fill or fit the image inside the allocated space. This works fine when generating to docx, however the PDF converter does not support this so whatever the value you select for cropping, the images always get squashed.
This is mainly an issue when used with an import tag to dynamically import an image; at that point we don't know what the exact aspect ratio will be, but we do want to make sure it…
1 voteHello Reporter,
Similar functionality to what you described was implemented in our 16.3.0 release. There are now image-crop tag settings that can allow you to do crop fill and crop fit for images at output. This setting will work to PDF output as well. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager
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