Windward Core
Some of our most innovative features originate with the users of our software. Please use this forum to submit ideas for new features and enhancements to existing features. The more votes from users from different Customers an idea receives, the more likely the feature will be added in the near future.
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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 -
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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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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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
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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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