Which features do you want in the next release?

aware_support

Dear Aware IM users,

this is your chance to influence the contents of the next release. Please indicate which new features you would like to see in the next release. Please start with the bigger ones.

If it's easier for you please send your list to support@awareim.com

aware_support

Actually we'll setup an application where you can add your features, bugs and annoyances and see the status of them.
Watch this space.

intra

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PointsWell

aware_support wrote
Actually we'll setup an application where you can add your features, bugs and annoyances and see the status of them.
Watch this space.

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BLOMASKY

I have a requirement (replacing a system that has this) to have a filter perform the search after each character is typed. I.e. if I have a filter on 1st name, when I type B all names starting with B are selected, then when I type an R all starting with Br are selected...

And, I am still waiting (patiently) for a Non-persistent LoggedInRegularUser that persists only during the session. For temp variables, etc. with NO need to read / write to the back end database.

Bruce

Jaymer

BLOMASKY wrote
I am still waiting (patiently) for a Non-persistent LoggedInRegularUser that persists only during the session. For temp variables, etc. with NO need to read / write to the back end database.Bruce

Bruce, thats a perky & awesome request!
I hope that gets stuck in.

Over the years, several people have had issue with having to create fields in LIRU just to use for temp storage... a great use to pass a simple value to another process and in some cases, it might be a several-1000-byte field if you needed to hold a combo box list, or JSON string, etc. etc. All that data gets constantly transferred (unnecessarily) when aware does "Select * from RegularUser" tons of times behind the scenes.
Having another BO like "SystemVars" (to go along with SystemSettings & RegularUser) where we can define fields and, since its NP, disappears when the session ends would be great.

intra

Not in a rush, but i think the following would be nice.

An AwareIM licensing server so we can migrate our licenses without the need to manually request.
Purely so that when its 1:00am on Saturday..we have a method. 🙂
Rehash on the licensing methods.. ie Developer but with the ability to run two config tools without the need and limitations of a single user license.
a method where we could hook/lock custom plugins (from developers) to AwareIM instances.

IE: If i write some custom ubeat jar that 'does something special' , id like to be able to request from the customer a code... then they supply it to me and i compile that code into the jar to keep the plugin with that installation.

hpl123

Better mobile app features, options and especially for native app building. The current version for Aware is great as it can be customized for web (including accessing webapp on tablet/mobile) but when it comes to actually creating real, professional etc. native apps on IOS/Android, I think it´s limited. I have not dabled a lot with the current options though but think I know what can be done and is not enough for most scenarios I have. I am not entirely sure what can be done in terms of "native app builder" but some builder where we can in a visual way possibly create an entire native app (UI so entire app UI + logo + startup screen + colors etc. etc.) and where we can click and choose which native features the app should use e.g push notifications, camera, contacts, calendar, swiping, top device info bar integration, full screen option etc. etc. etc. etc. + better offline management + better security/login/profile e.g local on device saved credentials and profile so the user downloads and installs app and then configures it with credentials and the credentials is saved locally i.e the user then just opens the app and is already logged in etc.. + better online/offline detection/notification i.e when the user has no internet, a nice customisable notification is used and the app is closed of something like that + x, y and z.
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PointsWell

BLOMASKY wrote
I have a requirement (replacing a system that has this) to have a filter perform the search after each character is typed. I.e. if I have a filter on 1st name, when I type B all names starting with B are selected, then when I type an R all starting with Br are selected...

And, I am still waiting (patiently) for a Non-persistent LoggedInRegularUser that persists only during the session. For temp variables, etc. with NO need to read / write to the back end database.

Bruce

The vast majority of my LIRU needs would be removed by the ability to have VP Listener panels.

At the moment a Panel can drive Output to another Panel. Which is fine as long as you only have one Panel driving one other Panel. In instances where you have multiple Panels that are driven by a master record you have to rely on Auto Refresh of Panels and either an ID attribute or an Object recorded in the LIRU.

If Panels were able to listen to another panel (or auto refresh based on the contents of that master Panel changing and being able to capture the new object in that Panel). It's possible at the moment, but requires a lot of processes.

Jaymer

Is there a way to implement a push message to logged in users?
Using the strategy developed in the example CRM application, I’m contacting the server every 30 seconds to update badges in my top menu. I don’t even have any users running in production, and if you look at the server output there’s a long line of indications of that process hitting the server.
When 10 to 20 users are logged in, and you look at the server output window, it’s going to be a steady stream of lines getting posted to it as sessions are banging the server to see if they have an updated badge.
While this was good years ago, and from a marketing perspective, it made the CRM app look cool, is there now not some better technology ( i.e. a push technology) to use instead of all the users constantly hammering the server?

Note: in the grand scheme of things, this really may not be an issue. One query per user pulling up 20 items probably has more impact on the server than 20 users updating a badge count. But I would still think it makes sense to have a way to push a message to a user session built into aware.

This includes one user process doing something that would send a message to another logged in user. Like when an incoming email comes in to a user, send a message to that session that an incoming email has arrived. It may not be that frequent. But in order to program for it, you would have to hit the server every minute of the day when 99% of the time there isn’t going to be a new email waiting.

Jaymer

I need a built-in way attached to a control, especially a combo box, to clear the value in that field.
… Other than using the escape key.
Or, an improvement to the “include empty text” option, which currently puts an undefined option at the bottom of the list.
If this could be the word <none> or something similar at the top, that would probably suffice.

Jaymer

The row-based forms metaphor needs to be improved.
With wider screens, we need to be able to easily put more complex controls horizontally on a form.
Easily have one grid control, next to another grid control.
Or what used to be called the “tall controls”, next to other controls, without extra CSS hacks.

Jaymer

One extremely cool thing that magic did was that on a field on a form, there was
An enabled Boolean, and
a modifiable Boolean, and
a visible Boolean.

By default, there was a yes/no selection.
And then an optional expression to be calculated which returned a yes/no, similar to the applicability condition that is on some objects currently.
So this made it extremely easy to dynamically hide a field, and skip over a field, or dim the control to disable it.
Well, we can do some of these things, the workarounds get to be tedious.

It used to be that a good UI would not hide controls, because then the user was confused because sometimes they were there other times they were not there.
So you left the control or the button visible, but since it was disabled, it was thought to be a better user interface.
I’m still kind from that school but I guess I don’t really see enough modern apps to know whether this is still a standard.

Jaymer

If you’re in a process, a report error will display a message and terminate the process.

Would it be possible for us to have a break/exit/end process command added, that works like a report error and terminates the process, but doesn’t throw an error?

That way we don’t have to have inverse logic in subsequent rules in a process that we don’t want to happen if a prior logic step already happened.
Obviously, this is similar to many other programming constructs in other languages

PointsWell

Jaymer wrote
Or, an improvement to the “include empty text” option, which currently puts an undefined option at the bottom of the list.
If this could be the word <none> or something similar at the top, that would probably suffice.

You have to populate the Empty Text field as well as the Include Empty Text otherwise you get the Undefined in the list.
Screen Shot 2020-01-17 at 13.18.47.png

Which gives you this:
Screen Shot 2020-01-17 at 13.31.19.png

Ideally it should be sorted to the top of the list which would be a change and the checkbox should be next to the empty text field. Angle brackets display as & characters so <none> is problematic

See attached example

UndefinedLists.bsv.zip

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Jaymer

yes, that works. so, i wasn't doing it correctly -- I was not supplying the value for the "empty text" after having enabled the option.
So, it's still deficient because it's adding it at the end, and a user won't know to scroll all the way to the bottom of a several hundred item list.
If it was at the top of the list, then I guess I could modify all Combo boxes to do this.
And I checked the data... it DID in fact set the reference value to NULL.
thx

PointsWell

Ability to update BSV version number to a specific value.

Why?
When running the same BSV on multiple servers I want to keep all version numbers consistent across servers.
If I bring on a new server I don't want (as it is time consuming) to have to increment through each version number, then publish then increment version number repeat

PointsWell

If you increment a version do some work and don't publish perhaps because what you were trying failed and instead revert to the earlier version as the source for your next version then you end up with a green New version that is actually abandoned. There is no way to mark that as Abandoned or Obsolete.

BobK

PointsWell wrote
If you increment a version do some work and don't publish perhaps because what you were trying failed and instead revert to the earlier version as the source for your next version then you end up with a green New version that is actually abandoned. There is no way to mark that as Abandoned or Obsolete.

If you do not need the abandoned version, why not just delete it. If you delete a unpublished version, the version number of the deleted version will be reused the next time you create a new version.

NOTE: on older versions of AwareIM you had to unlock the version before you are able to delete it.

swiftinitpvtltd

We need SEO features where URL's can be tagged and searched by googlefor example /australia/jobs/sydneyjobs.aw
/australia/hotels/sydneyhotels.aw and google will start recognizing just like makemytrip or monster(I know there is a workaround to use wordpress but then its 2 systems workaround, it will be great if google can search and rank aware IM pages.
If aware IM creates some way to have plugins portal where people can publish their plugins and then platform itself starts becoming stronger daily in very specific rule based path on top of how internally aware upgrades(which is great).