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Allow Object Field Deletion

We believe having a feature in Object Types menu to delete a certain field would be useful for the fields that are created with the wrong field type, and the fields that are no longer in use. We faced this issue several times with different custom...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Delivered

Ability to disable Notifications for Bulk Update of Fields and Bulk Workflow Actions

When users use the Bulk Udate feature from a Grid view, or they complete Workflows in Bulk from a Grid view, the system shows them the result of the operation directly in the UI. At the same time an e-mail notification is triggered to the user. Th...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Read-Only Task view for closed records.

Right now there is not option to create completely read-only view . we have to to each field and make it reads only for each field. it will be better to have read-only view with toggle button and filter can be added based on status. it will be mak...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Under review

Can't bring existing objects into workflows

We can see how to remove objects from workflows, but there is no way to bring existing objects into their correct workflow in bulk. This is critical to us adopting workflows, because when a user sees a list of tasks they must complete, we must ens...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

Ability to Control data mapping into Read Only fields (Fields that are read only due to calculations)

Currently, when a field was made read only due to calculation ( ie.. Using the field in the set operation of a calculation), When we use fastmap to load data into that field, it can't be overridden. This seems to be accurate from a perspective tha...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Implementing setting Forbid the orphans (false/true)

Since current version (IBM OpenPages on Cloud) doesn't prevent creation of orphan object from being removed from their only parent in order to consistently ensure data integrity it is suggested to implement System setting called Forbid the orphans...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Improve efficience in task view

It is possible to have an override of a view section in order to have it collapsed, but not the other way round (from default collapsed to uncollapsed). Is it possible to add this reversal?
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Under review

Ability to set default sort order and filters on all object Views

We would like Administrators to have the ability to set default sort orders and filters on all views (i.e. Filtered List, List, Folder, Grid and Activity Views). Currently in Activity and Grid Views Admins can set the default sort order and filter...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Delivered

Add Admin Screen Design Capability for Task Focused Views

Create a simple screen design admin capability to create task based views.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Delivered

New UI - ability to save Manage Views sort order

There is currently no way to save the sort order in the Manage Views screen. It is very frustrating when working with many views that you have to keep applying the sort order every time you go into Manage Views
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration