Windward Core
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create a report comparison tool
This would compare two reports to see if there are any differences in appearance.
Would be useful to those you frequently upgrade the engine and need to make sure that generated reports (that were working fine before the upgrade) still appear as expected.
8 votesHello Adam,
Unfortunately there are no plans to work on this functionality at the moment. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you might have. We will keep our eyes open if there is support for this again in the future.
Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Need browse button from the query pane in the Import Tag's Tag Editor
It would be SO COOL to have a browse button from the query pane in the Import Tag's Tag Editor to choose your file/url/etc.
1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been rejected due to lack of votes. We recommend the workaround of using the standard file explorer to get the file path. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our product!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Use a value from an XML file to determine conditional formatting values like colocell or others
Be able to use a tag element value to define conditional formatting parameter value:
Something like this:
<wr:out select=”!/root/ap/qu/elements/c_clau1” condition=”=TRUE::cellcolor!!!/root/ap/qu/elements/c_color::false”/>Instead of:
<wr:out select=”!/root/ap/qu/elements/c_clau1” condition=”=TRUE::cellcolor!!ff8800::false”/>1 voteHello reporter,
We have reviewed your request, and are also interested in this functionality, but are waiting until more interest is expressed to work on this. If we see the community express more interest towards this functionality and similar functionality we will review this again. Thank you for your idea and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Open the Tag Editor window in the center of the screen rather than below the cursor
Currently, when you double-click a tag to open the Tag Editor, the window is opened directly below the position of the cursor. That's fine if the tag is at the top of the window, but if it's near the bottom then the Tag Editor window is partially or even almost completely off the screen. I would prefer that the editor window open consistently in the center of the screen (or perhaps even better, optionally remember its last position and open there) so I don't have to drag the window to see its contents and so it appears consistently and reliably.
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3 votesHi Brent,
I just tested this request in Word 2016, Designer 16.2.0, Windows 10 and the Tag Editor was opened directly in the middle of the screen instead of towards the bottom. Perhaps this was fixed somewhere along the way! Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you come up with.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
RESTful Engine Error Response
While processing through a dataset I use the following code:
if(report.GetStatus() == Report.Status.Error)What needs to be added is a way to see and report back to the user what failed. Why is the report in an error state.
6 votesI wanted to follow up on this suggestion. We have made many improvements to the RESTful Engine in recent years, so I wanted to ask if this was still an issue for you. We are looking to improve our errors in the future to be more clear, so if this is still an issue we will consider adding it to that effort.
Thank you for your suggestion. I am setting this ticket to declined while we wait for a response.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Support QuickStyles with DOCX template and DOCX output
If the style checkbox "quickstyle" is checked in the template, it should not be unchecked in the final report.
3 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but have declined it for development currently. We have seen some other requests related to carrying properties into Excel output recently, so even though we declined this for current development, we will keep our ears open for related requests in the future and may plan development on this then. If we do plan development on this idea, I will update the ticket then. Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our products!
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Generating Policy Schdules
Hi,
I am trying to evaluate this software and see if it works for me.
I need to create a template of a policy schedule.
then, with a call, execute the template with the requested parameters and generate, mail and save a policy schedule. what am I missing here>1 voteHello,
This forum is reserved for new idea submissions only. From your request it look like you are looking for assistance with report creation using our existing features.
Please direct your question to our support desk located at support@windward.net
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Add ways to control report resource usage such as setMaxPages and setMaxMemory
I would love to be able to set limitations on the report engine's resource utilization to cut down on poorly written templates consuming too many resources. setMaxMemory or setMaxPages should be callable on processReport as a way to limit what the report generates.
3 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but declined it for development due to lack of votes. While we are not planning to develop these functions for max pages/memory, we do already offer a parameter for the report object to set a timeout during output for these cases: dotnetdoc.windwardstudios.com/topic457.html
Thank you very much for your suggestion, and please enter any other ideas you have to improve our product.Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Bursting - the Java Engine should be able to email sections/pages to different people.
This would allow a user to run a deposit slip report and have each page generated and emailed out to the individual the slip is for.
Or a company report divided by department with each departments section automatically emailed out to the department head.
1 voteHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but it has been declined due to lack of votes. Thank you for your suggestion, and please enter any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
The below query is not accepting in winward. I think, Winward needs to fix this. SELECT a.id AS id, b.id AS aid FROM a JOIN b ON a.id=b.re
The below query is not accepting in winward. I think, Winward needs to fix this.
SELECT a.id AS id, b.id AS aid
FROM a JOIN b ON a.id=b.referenceid;1 voteThis is a support request and not a new feature request. A developer verified this is working with our internal test SQL servers. Please submit this question to support@windward.net
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Refresh Tags
What if when a document was generated from a template instead of replacing the Tag with the data have the data replace the Tag friendly name. Then the generated document could be passed around modified and when all the changes are agreed upon then run the template again to get the latest values from the data source.
Recently I've had several prospects ask for this kind of functionality and this is the only idea that I could think of that might allow users to refresh their data in generated documents.
8 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but have decided to decline it for development. The reason is that this functionality would be non-trivial and risky to implement as well as it is not in the same direction as our current development efforts. Thank you very much for the suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
ForEach order='row' - Too Many Queries
When using a ForEach order=row inside another ForEach loop the number of queries performed multiplies e.g. If you have an outer ForEach loop which retrieves 5 entries, and an inner ForEach loop with order=row you get:
- Call to initial outer ForEach
- Call to initial outer ForEach
- Loop over each inner ForEach (5 calls)
- Call to initial out For Each
- Look over each inner ForEach (5 calls)
.. and so on until each entry in the Outer ForEach is resolved.If you use legacy mode on the inner ForEach you get a single outer foreach call,…
6 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but have decided to decline it 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 -
Extend the XPath Wizard to support functions
You recommend that we always use the XPath Wizard to create tags, but as soon as we want to use anything other than the most simple XPath expression, we have no choice but to write it by hand.
Extending the XPath wizard to support standard XPath functions (e.g. count, addition, etc) would allow us to always use it to construct our tags.
In our conversation with Ryan yesterday he recommended that we always use the XPath Wizard for creating tags. Is there any plan to extend the wizard to support XPath functions, e.g. count, addition, etc? As it stands, there…
19 votesHello Brooke,
We have reviewed this idea, and unfortunately have not planned it for work at the moment. That being said, we have entered a story for this functionality and put it in our work backlog. For now I will close this request as designed, but if we plan this ticket for development in the future, I will update this request then.
Thank you very much for your idea.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Ability to schedule a report to be run multiple times pulling in parameters from a select statement
Alot of potential customers ask if they can run a template multiple times using the result of a select to plug in parameters into a template. One example is mail merge. Currently the only way to accomplish this is in the engine, but alot of people that do not have development teams or no programming experience will not want to do this. This should be integrated into autotag, maybe call it autotag ultra? or it could be a seperate add-on to autotag.
7 votesWindward has discontinued its AutoTagMax product which offered the ability to schedule and run multiple reports from the AutoTag desktop application. This feature request was related to that product functionality.
The Windward Engine and its RESTful based engine allow for this functionality. The Windward AutoTag desktop solution is targeted at template design and testing. For product and batch processing of templates, the Windward Engine is required.
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Please add method to make DOCX reports read only
Please add method to make DOCX reports read only. The DOCX spec says you can do this by setting the documentProtection tag in settings.xml. In Java you can use the Apache POI library to do this using the XWPFDocument class.
8 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally but have declined it for development. The reason is that this ticket has not received a significant enough number of votes over the time it has been entered. We will keep our eyes on this ticket in the future, and if we see it receiving more votes, 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 -
AutoTag not to process an Excel spreadsheet
Add the possibility in Excel to tell AutoTag not to process a spreadsheet when generating a report as an Excel file.
It would be useful to create a PivotTable in a spreadsheet in the template file and then have it in the generated Excel report.
6 votesHello Reporter,
We reviewed this idea, and we think that your issue should be resolved in newer versions of the Engine and Windward Designer. Pivot tables should still appear in the output of an Excel template. Closing this idea as declined since this is now the case.
Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Gimme a break!
It would be useful for the forEach loop tag to have some sort of break option. That way I can loop through my values and when I find what I need I can break out and not continue the loop.
For now, as a workaround we can set some sort of flag variable and if we hit the "break" condition set it and then if it's set just avoid doing anything in the loop, but that's kind of crude...
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Include functionality to update formula fields in word
Very often I need to use Formula fields to calculate total/summary of some columns of a Word table. This fields do not get updated by word automatically and requires the users to update them manually pressing CTRL + A and then hitting F9.
I am wondering if you include a functionally that would update the formula fields while printing a word template through windward autotag/.net engine?
Thanks...
12 votesHello reporter,
This idea was reviewed internally, but unfortunately, was not approved for development. I have entered a ticket for this functionality and placed it in our backlog. If this issue is planned for development in the future, I will update this ticket. Until then, I am closing this request as declined.
Thank you very much for your idea.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Allow the Output Directory to be Changed
We're not going to use the server-side report-generation, so everything will be done within AutoTag. It would therefore be useful to be able to change the default output directory (currently Local Settings\Temp).
6 votesWe will not implement this as AutoTag is a design tool, not a complete reporting solution.
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Currently windward supports ToC(Table of Contents) in docx file but not ToF(Table of Figures)
Generating docx report using windward updates/supports only ToC not ToF(Table of Figures). This is a much needed feature when dynamically generating reports as a word file. It would be great if this feature is added to windward.
0 votesClosing this ticket as a duplicate of (http://ideas.windwardstudios.com/forums/248503-windward-beta-program/suggestions/39996928-currently-windward-supports-toc-table-of-contents)
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