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Search results: OpenPages Ideas

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Operational Risk Management OpenPages module - Inquiry Regarding Control and Evaluation Features Update

LA POSTE client expresses the desire to have the ability to conduct sampling checks through control grids and evaluations. In the absence of being able to duplicate the control grid for each sample to be checked, we have explored the possibility o...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Number value field type in Questionnaire Template

We are in the process of creating a questionnaire assessment for the quarterly review of application assets. While we have designed the template, we are encountering challenges in creating a question as a number type. Currently, in OpenPages, we h...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Under review

Enhance Grid View functionality

Having a Grid View that displays quite a few fields is not an issue on a large screen (see attached screenshot 01_large screen.png). But on a small (laptop) screen you are not able to see all columns anymore (see attached screenshot 02_small scree...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under 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

Rich Text Entry

OpenPages includes the option to configure Rich Text fields of various lengths, short (4K), medium (32K) and long (256K). Within the field, the user can format text which, for selected situations, enhances the content and readability of reports. T...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under 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

File Attachment Versions history should only show versions with updated file attachments

When a user adds a file attachment, the File Attachment task view shows the Versions table. However, when the user updates only a field value such as "Abstract" or "Description", and clicks Save, a new entry in the Versions table appears, which ma...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Provide archival features to efficiently manage large volume of data within OpenPages

As our data increases to a larger volume ( i.e 700GB ) everyday, it becomes longer and longer to manage the data archival / db2 backup process.Also certain task such as reporting schema rebuild takes large amount of space (i.e 50 GB of db2 log spa...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 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

Rich Text field Values to display in notification emails

It is useful to our users to have rich text fields as they do a lot of lists, tables and links. It would be beneficial if these field's values would copy over to the notification email template when calling the field via a variable. (i.e. [$group:...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration