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Search results: Platform Features

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Data Move Wizard

Provide a capability that will allow users to move objects and children objects from one business entity to another without needing to move each object individually.Users will have the ability to :o Filter for objects to moveo Select one or many p...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Not under consideration

Enable XLSX format for FastMap Export

FastMap supports XLSX format for importing data, but export currently only supports XLS format. Customers are starting to deprecate XLS, and need a way to also configure the OpenPages export to use XLSX format. Alternatively they need to disable t...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Synchronized Fields option when using shared field group in different objects

When you use a field group in multiple objects it would be great to have the option at the field level to check synchronized field. This would allow the data in the field of one object to be synchronized the the same field in a different object wh...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Allow Objects to be excluded from Reporting Periods

Reporting Periods are extremely useful for a variety of use cases. Currently when a reporting period is created, all data in OpenPages is duplicated. Some data in OpenPages does not need to be included in reporting periods, so it would be great to...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Ability to capture metadata for relationships

Currently the platform does not allow for the capture of customer / use case specific data about relationships. For example when a Risk is associated to a control we would like to be able to store information on its % coverage etc. Its important t...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Export Issue in new UI

When we export the data in standard UI, the fields are ordered as per the order in the details view. However, the same is not applicable for the TFUI. Additionally, if there are any extra fields which are not included on the view also show up if "...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

Questionnaire Assessment to display object that is associated to question in questionnaire template

Currently you can associate an object (risk or control in my case) to a specific question inside of the questionnaire template (See screenshot 1) However, when you are answering this question in a questionnaire assessment there is no link/view to ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Add the ability to disable/enable individual Reporting Periods

Customers that have been using OpenPages for a very long time sometimes have a large number of Reporting periods - not all the data from all the Reporting Periods needs to be available to users through the UI - e.g. when you are creating Quarterly...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Delivered

Auto selection of same Object type Primary Parent.

Currently , when a existing primary parent is disassociated , the new primary parent is selected based on chronological order even when we update the heuristic setting to "Folder Context". For example if the Risk is the Primary Parent of the Contr...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Hard Delete of Data from OpenPages

Currently any data that is deleted from OpenPages either via the UI or API is a "soft" delete, meaning the data is not deleted from the actual database tables. Furthermore it is not possible to delete data from old reporting periods. There should ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered