Windward Core
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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 -
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 -
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?
6 votes -
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
—The Windward Staff -
3 votes
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Allow drag-and-drop of stored procedures from the Data Bin
There is already a Wizard for specifying the parameters that get passed--why not be able to drag in a table that gets pre-populated based on the number of fields returned, the same way that dragging a table or view from the Data Bin works?
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Improve PPTX Layout Functionality
Create ability to specify which PPTX controls reside within a forEach loop, absolute positioning of controls and images, and simple layout functionality that allows looping without using tables.
10 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this suggestion but declined it for development since some of this functionality is already supported. We can only support associating tags in a template to a forEach loop, not objects that are absolutely positioned in the template that are not tags. To specify what forEach loop a tag should appear in you can use the anchor property that is supported for tags as charts and bitmaps. This will allow you to absolutely position the bitmap or chart tag and then specify what forEach tag it should appear under. Please read more about the anchor property here: https://ohana.windwardstudios.com/m/76878/l/1058495-how-do-i-use-the-anchor-and-var-properties-in-16-2
Thank you for your idea, and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our product.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
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 -
Create functionality in Java Engine to skim document template variables/nodes
As per Request #12304, only AutoTag is able to skim the variable paths from the document template. Java Engine does not have a method/functionality to retrieve all the variable paths ('Data/books/authorName'). WIll you be able to cater this request in the Java Engine? Thanks!
9 votesHello Reporter,
I am declining this ticket as a duplicate of https://windward.uservoice.com/admin/v3/suggestions/968935/ . Please refer to the linked ticket for the progress on this idea.
Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
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 -
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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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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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 -
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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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
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