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

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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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

[quote="BLOMASKY"]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[/quote] 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.

Not in a rush, but i think the following would be nice. 1. 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. :) 2. 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. 3. 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.

[quote="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[/quote] 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.

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.

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 or something similar at the top, that would probably suffice.

Which features do you want in the next release?

Jaymer

now that the TabOrder -1 method has been perfected, I would suggest that Aware, by default, set a TAB ORDER -1 to ANY Calculated field that is added to a form.
I have tested that, if you do NOT ever use Tab Order, setting a few to -1 does not hurt anything.
IMHO, there's no reason for the cursor to Park (during normal forward tabbing) ON a Calc field - but I may be wrong
(since Support is monitoring this thread, no sense in this waiting for next version - next build would be great <G>)

Jaymer

PointsWell wrote
At present you can stretch a grid to the bottom of the screen, however to do so you have to specify how many records you return OR you can specify the height of the grid and have unlimited returns.

There is a logical inconsistency with this. If you stretch the grid to the bottom of the screen you cannot predict how big that area is going to be. On a large screen it may be 600px high, on a small screen it may be 300px. If you specify the number of records that suits a 300px high grid but then the user has a large screen then the grid will appear concatenated. Does that mean there are no more records? Yes you can use the navigator panel at the bottom, but also users are not logical and don't always pick up on cues like that.

This creates user uncertainty. How can a user tell that he needs to scroll the grid to check that there are not more records below. How does a user know that a fixed height screen contains more records or is just the records that are visible on screen?

this grid issue has always perplexed me.
If you show 100 records per page in a Query, then the user has to scroll way down the screen - which scrolls the headings & menus off the top.
If you show 100 records AND you set a Height, then aware nicely scrolls all recs inside the xxx height window. very cool... EXCEPT
I have to set the height of that scrolling region - and that varies by user and screen size? So it needs to be able to use a percent or "ALL THE WAY TO BOTTOM" and let it figure it our at runtime.

BLOMASKY

I don't run Aware as a service, since (I believe) that when running as a service on windows its running in a 32 bit environment. Why?

Bruce

customaware

BLOMASKY wrote
I don't run Aware as a service, since (I believe) that when running as a service on windows its running in a 32 bit environment. Why?

Bruce

I agree Bruce.

I would much rather use a Service but resort to Control Panel mainly (but not only) for this reason.

johntalbott

Consuming a REST API Enhancements

Ability to iterate through data returned via a REST API without the need to commit it to the database first.
Ability to do JSON.parse and JSON stringify operations within a process

Jhstephenson

Jaymer wrote
Is there a way to implement a push message to logged in users?

I want that one too.

customaware

Respect the preservation of the AwareIM/Custom contents when Aware is installed of a Drive other than c:\

PointsWell

GET_CHANGES is super useful and faster than building your own audit functionality.

At the moment it creates an HMTL field that uses the BO attribute names. This is good for debugging and developer uses but if you have given your attributes less user friendly names then it produces less user friendly output.

For example, if you use ps/pm ob/os/om prefixes then the output is a bit meaningless.

It would be great if there was the ability to make GET_CHANGES output based on the attribute labels. Appreciate that it is possible to have multiple labels depending on which form you are using but if we could access the BO label as the basic that would make things much better.

PointsWell

At the moment a field is either mandatory or not and if it is then the attribute on a Form gets the red *.

Sometimes though an attribute's mandatory state is not binary but based on some condition.
eg

IF Account.Status WAS CHANGED TO 'Closed' AND Account.ClosedDate IS UNDEFINED THEN...

We can make the business rules force it to be mandatory but we can't give the user a visual clue that this has become mandatory based on that changed status.

IMPLEMENTED VIA PRESENTATION RULES - HOWEVER PRESENTATION RULES ARE NOT DYNAMIC

Jaymer

PointsWell wrote
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We can make the business rules force it to be mandatory but we can't give the user a visual clue that this has become mandatory based on that changed status.

so, the standard answer, if you REALLY, ABSOLUTELY, HAD TO HAVE THIS TODAY, would be to add an HTML cell after your field, and conditionally display your indicator.
What a TERRIBLE way to do it. If you had complex forms (ie. more than 1 column) you'd pull your hair our trying to edit all those forms because of multi-column wonkyness (wonkiness?).

Thats similar to my 2 requests for
1) A trailing icon used to clear (set to UNDEFINED) a field - esp. a reference, like a combo box
2) A "zoom" button (like the automatic "+" to Add New Values on a reference Combo) which helps you drill down by calling another process/form to show more details.
(NOTE: You can do both of these now, but it requires an HTML cell after the field)

THIS "required" symbol is just 1 more thing that would be a great addition to this new functionality.
I'm sure the initial thoughts of Support are NO, or this is not worth the investment....
But this proves there's already 3 types of functions that could be enabled as an "after Attribute" property... kinda like the new Presentation Rules... now has STYLE, ICON, & 1 other all tied into that Rule Editor.

PS _And remember that a Tool Tip added to a Form Attribute has a nice dialog box - and presents a nice "?" mark for help text. So the mechanics are already there for Aware to do this.

PointsWell

Don't check Referred is great for making sure that a change on an invoice line bubbles up to the invoice, where it's not so good is when it is triggered by an Object change that is not related to that business rule, for example changing the Buyer name.

It would be good if you were able to selectively Don't Check Referred or Check Referred for these BOs.

Eg In a BSV with BO1.. BOn:
don't check referred from BO1, BO2, BO15
Or, better (though this is more akin to the check box being set to not ... unless)
Allow checked referred from BO4, BO6

gijsvb

Hi,

In Europe many countries have standardized for IBAN (International Bank Account Number) for the bank accounts. There are several checks that can be performed on an IBAN number to check it for correctness. Some of these can be handled easily in AwareIM, fi. country code and applicable length of the account number.

The check digit calculation is one I couldn't realize in AwareIM and had to fall back to a userfunction in Java. This is the only Java code I have ever written and it's a pain to support this code.

It would be nice if there was a function fi. CHECK_IBAN to check an IBAN number for correctness. For me it would suffice if this function only returned true/false for a correct/incorrect IBAN account number. No need to calculate the correct check digits for an incomplete number.

The IBAN account number setup is explained in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Number

Thanks,

Gijs van Ballegooijen.

PointsWell

SEE https://www.awareim.com/forum/d/11751/1&hilit=IBAN#p54386

gijsvb wrote
Hi,

In Europe many countries have standardized for IBAN (International Bank Account Number) for the bank accounts. There are several checks that can be performed on an IBAN number to check it for correctness. Some of these can be handled easily in AwareIM, fi. country code and applicable length of the account number.

The check digit calculation is one I couldn't realize in AwareIM and had to fall back to a userfunction in Java. This is the only Java code I have ever written and it's a pain to support this code.

It would be nice if there was a function fi. CHECK_IBAN to check an IBAN number for correctness. For me it would suffice if this function only returned true/false for a correct/incorrect IBAN account number. No need to calculate the correct check digits for an incomplete number.

The IBAN account number setup is explained in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Number

Thanks,

Gijs van Ballegooijen.

There are lots of REST calls that can do this (though it does mean sending data outside your app)

https://www.programmableweb.com/category/all/apis?keyword=Iban

Some quick research also pulls up Apache Commons Validator which seems to provide a series of routines for the validation of many different standards. No idea how complex this is but it may provide a faster mechanism to achieve this being integrated into AIM (but IANAJD) https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/apidocs/index.html?org/apache/commons/validator/routines/DomainValidator.html

If this is a viable source then it provides validations for IBAN, ABA, EAN13, ISBN10/13 credit card numbers (format validity not account verification). I could use a bunch of these.

PointsWell

The label for an attribute is at the moment static, but this is limiting. For example bank accounts are highly localised but are localised at the instance level not the user, so i18n doesn't work here.

A bank account in the U.K. for example has a sort code, in Australia a BSB and in the USA an ABA. These are driven by the country of the bank account and not the location of the user. Changing the Country of the account I need the label to change to the appropriate label.

yahya

[quote="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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-[/quote]

Improving the mobile app experience would be an awesome advantage, will definately help in getting app approved on the iOS store. World is moving away from Desktop style devices and more onto Smartphones and Tablets so the mobile app should be a very big priority for AwareIM.

weblike

This was requested 5years ago?
Has been this added to platform?
FR - number format based on locale (comment)

aware_support

Has been this added to platform?
https://www.awareim.com/forum/viewtopic ... ber#p32160

I don't understand what the problem is. "Localised" number formats are already supported - you need to select the appropriate culture when defining your locale.

PointsWell

At the moment the Business Object Group tells you the Group Members and little else (I haven't used Presentations and I am still unsure as to their purpose).

It would be helpful if the BOG also displayed the common attributes that make the BOG, especially as peer relationships do not automatically get added to the group.

It would be even more helpful if you could see the attributes of the members marked as in or out of the group which would help when you've come back to something and can't find which BO is missing the attribute. Though I realise this becomes a UI challenge.

The ability to edit the BOG and add the attributes there and not have the repeated dialogue boxes ask. "Do you want to add this attribute to xyzzy Group". I have a lot of groups and this is fraught with potential for errors, which are then a nightmare to undo.

weblike

aware_support wrote

Has been this added to platform?
https://www.awareim.com/forum/viewtopic ... ber#p32160

I don't understand what the problem is. "Localised" number formats are already supported - you need to select the appropriate culture when defining your locale.

Thank you for your reply.
Yes the decimal is respected!
Should this feature respect all the culture formatting or only decimal pointer? Because I have switched to "German" which has this format of numbering "123.456.789,00", but the digit grouping symbol is not present (it's displaying like this "12345,00")

mohd.documents

We need to be able to sort attributes name by entering sequence, then by alphabetical.

Thanks

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