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Search results: OpenPages Ideas

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Workflow Administration - Terminate Workflow Instances

PLEASE create separate security permissions around Workflow Instances. Right now, it's baked into the "Workflow" security permission. This isn't helpful - we have to rely on our IT team to terminate workflows when we (the business leads) should be...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

When Associating a Business Entity be able to select it from Hierarchy

When in an object view a Business Entity must be associated, it would be very useful to be able to select it from the Business Entity Hierarchy. Meaning, to have the same filter that is available on Business Entity Grid View.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Change design for Calculations on Locked Objects

Currently there is no exception for calculations on locked objects, meaning thy system tries to execute calculations on locked objects, resulting in error messages to the users (and errors showing on the calculation). This is the request: Calculat...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

Control User Guidance with another field

The User Guidance can be controlled using a Task View override in a workflow - that is great. But when the object is outside a workflow i.e. (Start -for manual start workflows, End - which could have multiple states [closed, rejected, cancelled et...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

User configuration of dashboard in new UI

Users cannot configure their dashboard in the new UI, they instead have to switch to the standard UI to make changes and accept the re-formatting of the dashboard when task / oversight / report information is automatically overlaid on their dashbo...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Only single space should not be consider as character in Action comment in Workflow

When Action comment is mandatory, system is considering "space" as character. It means I can just give space and submit my request.There should be some enforcement to enter something other than space.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Is a defect

Include Export Template Parameters to capture/record the Criteria applied by the User in the Filter List View

Users regularly utilise the Filter List View's Export mechanism to generate Object data extracts which can be analysed/shared using a spread sheet application e.g., MS Excel. As a default, upon Exporting a Filtered List, the resulting output (Fast...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request for OpenPages to add the ability to undo a delete on an Object

Last week our Business Administrator Support Group deleted several objects that still retained associations to other objects as part of a clean up effort. Those other objects were also deleted. After contacting OpenPages Support, we were advised t...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Re-Positioning of the Delete object Function

We had a scenario whereby an object was accidentally deleted via the Admin UI, exacerbated by cascade delete being enabled, meaning a large umber of objects were soft deleted. IBM do not currently support un-deletion should this arise meaning that...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Sort order in association grid selector should reflect the visible columns

We noticed when we configure the "Associate" button on an object grid in a task view, the default sort order of the grid results are on System Fields.Name, even if that field is not visible in the grid. IBM support confirmed that this is working a...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration