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Search results: OpenPages Ideas

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TFUI - Enable Workflow Validations and Operations on SAVE

Many of the data quality rules span objects - Eg. Impact booking date must be GT Event Occurrence Date. Form rules only allow for rules on a single object so cannot be used. Workflow rules for validations and operations only run on workflow transi...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

RESTAPI needed to update dropdown values (ENUMVAL content)

RBS will use an IBM Hosted instance of OpenPages and need to automate the content of reference data as far as possible and will use the RESTAPI to do this (eg Load FX Rates). We need to maintain the content of the Application dropdown list (enumer...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration

Create Package for Self Service Analytics in OpenPages

As Cognos Analytics appeared with OpenPages, we had high hopes of enabling our customers to do self service analytics. This was then shattered as we realized, that in order to do that, we'd have to use Framework Manager to create packages that hav...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Delivered

Bulk Data and File/Link Move should be part of core platform

There are no standard platform delivered tools to bulk move business data, files and link objects. Often data has to be moved on mass to support organisation hierarchy changes, in particular split or merge changes.Services have to be engaged to cu...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

Support for DATETIME data type field in OpenPages

please introduce Date Time field in Open Pages in the future releases. Currently Open Pages has no DATETIME option available while creating a field to hold timestamp value. Business case -> To know how many templates are approved on time, let’s...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Enforce that the user is assigned to the profileName referenced in the Definition sheet in order to upload data

We need Fastmap to check if the profileName set in the Definition sheet is among those configured for the user who is uploadingdata, and apply the corresponding permissions. E.g.: if User 1 is associated to Profile A and User 2 is associated to Pr...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Delivered

Update Java API to be able to run Cognos reports into Excel 2007 format.

The Java API supports the running of Cognos Reports but the Output Format for the report is limited to the enumeration types documented in the CognosOutputFormat class - which is CSV, PDF, XLWA, HTML, XML. To be able to run a report via the API in...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

Add export to Excel/PDF option when you run drill-through report from the Cognos dashboard which added to user profile

When run drill-through report from Cognos dashboard using Cognos environtment, you have an option to download data to different format. If Cognos dashboard added to user profile dashboard, then this opportunity is missed. We found workaround but i...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Limit the basic reporting framework models to current reporting period

OpenPages introduced the concept of basic reporting frameworks to make end user reporting easier. When reporting periods are used, the users are confused as they get reports with data from all reporting periods - it's not evident for the users to ...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Prevent FastMap from stopping uploading at any error found on a record

The client would like to have a more quick and efficient way of massively uploading data. Actually Fastmap checks one by one all records to be uploaded, applying its out of the box controls, plus custom triggers controls and stopping every time it...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review