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Search results: OpenPages Ideas

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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

Control over grid view column widths

We're finding grid views / embedded grid views have disproportionate column widths (in terms of reader usability/readability). This often impacts us on fields such as Name and Description. If we had the ability to define the column widths ourselve...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Move Tabs in the TFUI

It would be useful if users could re-order tabs in the Task Focused UI. This would help with users organising data and makes the application more intuitive by including functionality similar to most browsers
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

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

DB Script to purge entire data set

When DEV is refreshed with PROD data, Clients would not want to expose their confidential data on a Non-PROD environment. To some extent there are purge/anonymization APIs but it is object/resource specific. It would be better to have a DB script ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Watson Translate Support for Rich Text Fields

Currently Watson does not support rich text fields. This is a substantial amount of text fields and would include most data stream integrations provided OOTB for OP. Not being able to auto-translate is extremely confusing for the users and is inco...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

Support additional CKEditor core functions in OpenPages

I have compared CKEditor core functionality vs what is currently enabled in OpenPages v 9.0.0.2 We would like to request the following very useful features be supported by CKEditor in OpenPages. The table support in particular is lacking. It's gre...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Ability to disable printing

Our application stores sensitive data. We have architected it with security in mind, are using role based access to restrict data and have included confidential watermarks on COGNOS reports, while also restricting who can export data/reports from ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

[TFUI] Configure default sorting in Grid Views

Currently in a Grid View, the object instances are sorted by default by the Name field in an ascending order. In an embedded Grid, the default sorting can be configured to meet ones needs. This is not possible in a Grid View. Users have to apply t...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 5 Not under consideration