Windward Core
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RESTful engine async does not check for the validity of the report request and immediately returns a Guid. It would be prefered that the RES
RESTful engine async does not check for the validity of the report request and immediately returns a Guid. It would be preferred that
the RESTful engine checks immediately and return an error message instead.1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this request internally but have declined it for development. The reason is that the functionality you describe appears to contradict the asynchronous request type: to wait for errors before sending the response would make the request, in a sense, synchronous. We would recommend instead to check the validity of the request in your code that calls the RESTful engine to keep your asynchronous request, but also get this feedback. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve the product!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
More efficient compression options.
When using Windward's java engine to export to PDF, the only available method for compressing output files is "setCompressionLevel". This method in our experience only shrinks files about 21.5%. In addition to this issue, when generating a windward PDF, the uncompressed file is almost 2x the size of the file if we were to make the file by hand and manually "export to pdf" from MS Word. As a test, we did this and then used Adobe Pro to compress the file. We were then able to compress the file an additional 68.2% with no noticeable quality loss.
We would…
1 voteHello Reporter,
After reviewing this feature request, we understand the desire for the functionality but need to see if there is greater demand before we invest time in development. If this idea gains more votes we will re-asses the idea in the future to see if there is sufficient demand.
Thank you for your idea and please submit any other ideas you may have!
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Possibility to add HTML header information for email templates
Would be a big improvement to have the possibility to add HTML header information when creating an e-mail template, to define following fields of the email:
- From
- To
- Subject
When creating a letter-template, it's easy to add address information on the template, as the address is printed on a letter.
More and more communications are sent via email. Windward should provide the possibility to add HTML header information. Adding Tags in the HTML header would give us the possibility to add ‘invisible’ but needed tags on a template.3 votesHello Reporter,
This idea has been declined for development at this current time due to lack of votes. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our products.
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 -
Output Templates in XML format
Our business needs to output in XML format in addition to existing formats offered by Winward Autotag.
3 votesHello reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but have declined it for development due to lack of votes. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Automatic refresh of data sources
We use XML as our data source and to test we change the values in that file. We then have to re-connect to the same file and save changes for it to be refreshed in Windward. This is a bit frustrating doing this over and over again so could it be automatically refreshed
2 votesThis idea was declined after undergoing our review process (please see Adam Jackson’s comment). Thank you for your feature request and we hope you will submit other ideas in the future!
- The Windward Team
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Name cells populated by forEach tag
Make possible to name cells populated by forEach tag according to a given pattern.
The pattern might include a prefix or a suffix with an item index to get a unique cell name.
Additionally allow to name entire range populated by forEach tag.9 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed your suggestion internally but it has been declined due to lack of support. Thank you very much for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have for us to improve our products!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Update table of contents after docx report has been generated
When docx report is generated, update the table of contents as the last step before saving the report output. Reason: if the report contains imported html documents, the page numbers in the ToC are often wrong after the 1st html document. With lots of documents, the page numbers get increasingly out of sync. The user has to use F9 in the output file to correct this.
1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this suggestion internally but unfortunately it has been declined due to lack of votes. Additionally, we do the best ToC that we can achieve, but Microsoft does not document how they do their layout in Word. As a result, we get as close to their formatting as we can, but in a few cases, unfortunately, the numbering is different. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve the product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Auditing
Ability to report how many report have been generated using the tool.
Helps for internal reviews and shows usefulness of the tool
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Need Easy way to set either standard (1,321.36) or Euro (1.321,36) numeric formatting for OUT tags.
An enhancement to the TEXT function that allows me to format numeric fields in either standard (1,321.36) or Euro (1.321,36) formats is required. The ability to select this in the "formatting" field would be perfect as I could reference a SET tag that I create based on user selections and then have one or the other formats flow through my document.
3 votesHello Reporter,
This idea has been reviewed internally but has been declined for future 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 -
Create an output for a two dimensional grid of numbers (e.g. a term and mileage price matrix)
Create an output for a two dimensional grid of numbers (e.g. a term and mileage price matrix)
The current solution only allows the generation of a table in on direction rather than two7 votesHello Robert,
I spent some time and created a POC of how this kind of functionality can currently be achieved using formatting supported by designer. The table is dynamically generated with the appropriate number of columns and rows. If this solution fails to address your problem, please enter another request and further illustrate how the problem cannot be resolved with this solution.
Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other ideas you have!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
List Javelin in categories
Why Javelin is not in the category list of ideas submission
1 voteHello Constantinos,
Please visit our Javelin specific ideas page:
http://ideas.windwardstudios.com/forums/380307-javelin-reporting-portal
Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Allow manual entries into the Chart Tag legend
The chart tag at the moment only detects values within the data source, causing inconsistencies between values/color (e.g. risk levels) across multiples of the same report.
It would be great to include the functionality to manually add entries to the Chart Tag legend. This would allow consistency creating reports that require uniformity in values and colors.
1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this suggestion internally but it has been declined due to lack of votes. Thank you very much for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Javelin Permissions
Javelin permission should be enhanced to restrict the
1. Create Folder
2. Upload
3. Viewing of POD tab
4. Viewing of Schedule tab1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been declined since we are not doing any new development on Javelin right now. That being said, we are considering this new functionality for future development in the Windward Maestro platform. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Javelin to limit output options
Javelin to limit output options for a template or group of templates.
1 voteHello Reporter,
Your suggestion has been reviewed internally but has been declined since we are not currently doing any new development for Javelin. Thank you very much for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Validation to identify non-existent XML data sources
I am currently building a new template with changing XML data sources and values.
The values prove to be no issue as the new data is simply pulled into the Output.
However, if the XSD/XML changes, say the data point name, then the Output just ignores the Autotag ie. null value inserted in Output. The validation tool doesn't identify 'broken' Autotags and actually states that the validation was successful. This also applies to the 'Preview' button, which returns a null but doesn't mention that the data point couldn't be found.3 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been declined for development due to a lack of votes. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve the product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Centralized Logging
We would like the ability to take the log events generated from Windward and deposit them to a centralized logging repository, one that takes all events logged for the entire enterprise. We use SEQ for this, mostly utilizing the Serilog's framework to perform the logging. However, NLog, the current logging framework used by Windward, does support logging to SEQ, and thus what is really needed is the ability to log those events to different repositories, depending on the needs of the consumer.
Alternatively, if we had the ability to provide an extended class or implemented interface to the .NET engine…
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HTML with No CSS
Please provide the ability to produce HTML without embedded CSS that results in the same styles and appearance as the default HTML. While bloated in size by embedding all the CSS into the HTML tags, this can improved integration with other applications that one would like to use with the resulting HTML.
1 voteHello Daniel,
I am marking this ticket declined since according to Adam Jackson’s response to you, this functionality exists. Please submit any other suggestions you might have. Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Support for test.salesforce.com
With the Salesforce.com Datasource there isn't a way to switch the salesforce.com instance used to a sandbox instance.
Sandbox instances use test.salesforce.com as opposed to production and developer instances which use login.salesforce.com to create the connection.
Our template authors do not always have access to the production instance to do development of templates.
Also we usually run User Acceptance Testing against sandbox instances.
So without this functionality we are unable to develop or test new autotag templates.
2 votesHello Reporter,
I am marking this idea as declined for development. I have entered a ticket in our backlog, and will keep an eye on this and similar ideas in the future. If we see more support for this idea and accept it as a result, I will update this ticket again then. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you may have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Deprecate .NET 3.5 and Java 1.6 in Version 16
Windward is ending support for the following versions of .NET and Java for their respective Engines in Version 16.
Drop support for the following in Version 16:
.NET 3.5
Java 1.6Microsoft ended support for .NET 3.5 on January 12th, 2016. Support for Java 1.6 ended in February 2013.
Further developing our Engines on .NET 4 and Java 1.7 enables us to bring you the best products using functionality unavailable in previous versions. Please let us know if you have comments or questions related to the deprecation of these products or how to upgrade your existing environment. Thank you.
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