Windward Core
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Include multiple templates in Office (DOCX/XLSX) output
We would like the ability to include multiple reports in a single Word or Excel document without having to have everything in a single template. For example, many of our users have a cover page, cover letter, quote summary, quote details and other reports that they may or may not include in a proposal. This is fine in PDF, but only one report at a time may be selected in Word/Excel format. For various reasons, we encourage users to choose PDF output, but sometimes they need access to the other formats and currently have to generate one document at a…
3 votesHi Brent,
Thank you for clarifying. I will close this ticket as declined per your comment before. Thank you for the suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Merge the printed documents
We have letters printed based on the letter (unique)id so when there are 100 letters for example we do have 100 letters(documents) printed which is great and that is how we anticipate the outcome, along with that we have a mail merge process that merges all 100 individual letters to one document, this way the team which prints the letter will have to send the one file to the machine for printing all 100 letters instead sending 100 different individual letters. I want to check and see if we have any process that merges individual printed letters to one single…
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Justified Alignment With Condensed Font Spacing
Justified alignment with condensed font spacing is resulting in left alignment instead of justified alignment in the PDF output. A basic template attached to this request can demonstrate this issue.
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HIDE/SHOW TAG with Flag for keeping/not keeping CALCULATIONS
A TAG to hide all what is coming up after this TAG, this could be a large calculation, tables etc. A TAG to put at the end to show again what is coming after. This could be the same TAG with a hide/show flag.
In the same TAG we could have an additional flag if the calculations between HIDE/SHOW are active or not.
If would be very helpful if we could put this TAG between IF/ELSE/END_IF.
3 votesHello Reporter,
This idea was reviewed but was declined for development at the current time due to lack of votes. If this idea or a similar idea receives more votes in the future, we will review it again at a later time. Thank you for the suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve the product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Designer support for MSWord Comments
When generating reports we would like AutoTag to provide the ability to create MSWord comments. Our reports can be quite large and require QA reviews. As part of our JSON we include a comments/notes structure. We'd like to take that JSON element and create a comment.
5 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been declined for development at this time due to lack of votes. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Make the default output directory configurable.
Implement a configuration parameter that changes the Report Designer default output directory from the current %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\temp.
1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been declined for development due to lack of votes. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve the product!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Would like the RESTful engine to be able to return plain text instead of base64 encoded response for CSV output
Would like the RESTful engine to be able to return plain text instead of base64 encoded response for CSV output requests. Currently, all responses are returned base64 encoded which wouldn't be necessary for a CSV report just plain text would be better.
3 votesHello Reporter,
This idea has been reviewed internally but has been declined due to lack of votes. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve the product!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Generate HTML output in multipart MIME format
One of the things we use the Windward Engine for is to generate HTML (based on templates) that is then sent out via email.
But a lot of mail clients don't support the way the Engine handles <img> tags (with the src property as an inline base64 encoded string).
Since multipart MIME is supported by many more mail clients, it would be great if the Windward Engine could generate its output in multipart MIME format!3 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this internally and decided to decline it for upcoming development due to lack of votes. That being said, we are also interested in this functionality and how it might enhance our products. We will keep our eyes on this idea in the future to see if it gains additional support or if similar ideas are entered. Thank you for your suggestion, and please enter any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Allow attached files of type .rldx and .zip
Request the "Attach a File" feature of this website allows files of type .rldx and .zip.
1 voteHello David,
I am declining this request since we are not the company that produces this website software. I did however put in a request to User Voice for them to add this feature. Thank you, and please submit any other Windward feature ideas you might have.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Don't allow a POD to be created if it contains undefined variables.
Currently, a POD can be created that contains Tags which refer to variables defined in other Tags not included in the POD. Then those Tags fail when the POD is used in another template. Request that when a POD is saved, Report Designer checks whether there are undefined variables in any Tag, and if so, rejects saving the POD with a message like "POD contains undefined variables."
1 voteDeclining as a duplicate of https://windward.uservoice.com/admin/v3/suggestions/36263050/
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Don't allow a POD to be created if it contains undefined variables.
Currently, a POD can be created that contains Tags which refer to variables defined in other Tags not included in the POD. Then those Tags fail when the POD is used in another template. Request that when a POD is saved, Report Designer checks whether there are undefined variables in any Tag, and if so, rejects saving the POD with a message like "POD contains undefined variables."
1 voteDeclining as a duplicate of https://windward.uservoice.com/admin/v3/suggestions/36263050/
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Don't allow a POD to be created if it contains undefined variables.
Currently, a POD can be created that contains Tags which refer to variables defined in other Tags not included in the POD. Then those Tags fail when the POD is used in another template. Request that when a POD is saved, Report Designer checks whether there are undefined variables in any Tag, and if so, rejects saving the POD with a message like "POD contains undefined variables."
1 voteHello David,
We have reviewed this idea internally but unfortunately it has not been accepted. Since the idea has not received sufficient votes since it was entered and also since we have some other tools in the product to verify template quality we will not be working on this. Thank you for your suggestion, and please enter any other ideas you have to improve the product.
Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Enemy Nations 2
Playing Enemy Nations is one of the highlights of my childhood - it was a fantastic strategy game way ahead of its time.
I realize this is not the area of focus for Windward anymore, but is there any chance that one day a sequel might be made?
Loving all the work you guys do.
1 voteDeclining this idea since the company no longer works on Enemy Nations games.
Thank you for the fun shout-out though!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Can we have a table type variable so as to avoid repeat SQL calls?
Our developers indicated it would be very useful to have a table type variable or something similar (e.g. structure or user defined type) to store SQL statement results and so avoid repeated calls to the database.
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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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RESTful Engine - Embedded Datasource in Request
Currently when passing and XML or JSON data source within a REST request it has to be encoded into base64. It would be very valuable to be able to pass the XML or JSON data directly within the REST request.
1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this request internally, but it has been declined due to lack of votes. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our product!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
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
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