Gentleman, as V8 is getting close to going live, I thought we give our feedback/needs to Aware Team to get ideas on V8.1. To keep it manageable, please provide only [b][u]ONE[/u][/b] feature that is [b]most important [/b]to you with details so AwareSoft can get ideas on the feature you desire. I'll start mine, since this is a show stopper for me with current system. ================== [b][color=Blue]Please extend the "Picture" type in the BO that could store images as a) DB (the default) b) FILE SYSTEM - if this option is selected, please offer two sub-options: a) A text attribute to store the path & image name and an option for us to select image type (png or jpg or bmp or etc.)[/color] [color=DarkRed][u]Important Note: [/u]Currently at runtime, Aware has to extract the images from BLOB attribute, create a physical image on Aware's folder (under Tomcat) so Tomcat can deliver that image to end user. This process is very time & resource consuming (especially with grids & queries) and for Image stored in DB that's the way it needs to be done. And this is ONE of the reason I need to get away from images stored in DB (plus DB size growth). HOWEVER, once the Image FILE SYSTEM is introduced, we also can get one major benefit, which means the Image is already stored on the OS drive which [u]Aware does NOT need to create a new one again.[/u] My second request on this part is, for AwareSoft to tell us, WHERE we should store the images (Under Tomcat folder I assume) that Aware and Tomcat, can simply point to the existing images rather than creating a new one. THIS will save server a great deal of time, resource and space. PLEASE combine this feature which would make our app much more optimized.[/color][/b] Thank you in advance!!!

Allow usage of UTF-8 / Unicode text in Reports (pdf). Showstopper.

[quote]My second request on this part is, for AwareSoft to tell us, WHERE we should store the images (Under Tomcat folder I assume) that Aware and Tomcat, [/quote] Ben, I think this would be a problem as it would mean when updating AwareIM version the store of images has to be taken care of, could be very cumbersome if the store has grown to 30 GB or something and you need to copy it over - unless I am misunderstanding you My Single most wanted feature is the REST feature as in https://www.awareim.com/forum/d/9610> Oh also , can I squeeze this one in - FORMS without refresh option - inline editing on Forms

A more efficient testing cycle. ========================= When pressing the 'Make Version Available For Testing' button or Ctrl-T, have the 'Test Version' form that appears default to the last used settings. Merge the Login selector that appears on the subsequent form into the 'Test Version' form and have the choice also default to the last used login. By doing this the embedded browser testing can be started with 1 click not 3. It's something that is done hundreds of times every day and each mouse click or keystroke saved adds up to a significant gain in useability, time saved and reduced irritation. It's dead easy to implement.

Mike, you know there is a QUICK test (alt Q) that skips all of the questions, and if you have an external browser open, you just have to refresh it. bruce

My #1, primo request would be for INLINE editing to work a lot better! With the ability to have check boxes, not having to tab to a new row to save the record and perhaps, dare I say it, cursor focus control. (to be implemented, via a rule or process, so I could have a rule like IF BO.attr WAS CHANGED THEN setFocus(BO.attr) Bruce

Full featured REST consumer and server.

[quote="ACDC"]Ben, I think this would be a problem as it would mean when updating AwareIM version the store of images has to be taken care of, could be very cumbersome if the store has grown to 30 GB or something and you need to copy it over - unless I am misunderstanding you [/quote] Tony, when you're right, you are right. Hope Support can give another solution that doesn't require creating new images every time you need to display one.

[quote="eagles9999"]Allow usage of UTF-8 / Unicode text in Reports (pdf). Showstopper.[/quote] Mine is solved. Already does it in V7. Heheeee.. Never realised you can just add a font. Go Figure. ;)

Handling of Json Restful APIs - would be great (as described in other posts). (2nd being the refresh form with an "anchor" point to return user to same part of form - avoiding the long scroll back)

My number 1 request for 8.1 has to be better handling and control of incoming email when using IMAP in AwareIM. Specifically I would like AwareIM to behave more like a normal email client in the sense that it would download all incoming email from the mail server, read or unread, not just those that are unread. When I say all, I mean those that it has not iterated over before and I would also like to be able to set a limit of, say, the last 2 weeks or last 30 days (this is so that AwareIM doesn't download 100k emails when a [i]new[/i] user enters his mail server credentials). I would also like AwareIM to leave a copy of the email on the server - at the moment it downloads unread email and completely removes it from the server meaning that other clients engaged with the same server don't get a chance to download them too. (In most email clients it's possible decide if you want to leave a copy on the mail server or not) My scenario is this: I want my incoming email on my mobile phone through my phones in built email client, I want to view it on web-mail through a standard browser, I want it on my laptop email client [b]but[/b] I also want my AwareIM application to download a copy of it and archive it to my customer BO or staff BO or supplier BO, etc. As long as AwareIM only downloads unread email and 'steals' it from the mail server, 'incoming email' in AwareIM is very limited. see this discussion for more: https://www.awareim.com/forum/d/7536/12&hilit=understanding+email#p40276 There you go, my two penneth and if this gets implemented It'll make my year!

SINGLE most important feature you need for 8.1?

BenHayat

weblike wrote
Hi all,
Just came back from holiday and I'm glad to see activity on the forum.

Oh no, you're back... :mrgreen:

BenHayat

^ Bump ^

RentProperty

I Have to agree with George.

Would be great to have the latest version and features of Jasper reports integrated in the report builder to allow more flexibility (Especially with regards to page breaks, sub-report tiling orientation).

Also better indexing fo the BSV so 'FIND REFERENCES' doesn't take minutes to complete and also better auto completion / Click through navigation on ALL elements. IE to be able to CTRL click on any Query, Object, Attribute, Form reference, VP and be taken directly there from any other place in the system. Most IDE's offer this these days.

These 2 things will help ALOT.... AND definitely more flexibility on exposing rest services as we use this All the time for our native mobile apps.

Just my 2 cents.

BLOMASKY

Yea, it would be nice to have it integrated, and yea, it would be nice to be able to have a report show up in one panel, but if you can live with the limitation of having your report output in a new tab, then just write your reports in Jasper and call them from Aware.

works for me.

Bruce

customaware

I would use Jasper except I can find no way to display an Aware Picture attribute on a Jasper report.

Tried many things but discarded when I failed.

Also Bruce....if I ever get back into it... I will need another training session. 😉

tford

Mark,

Did you know that Bruce's Jasper demo video is at: https://recordings.join.me/H18yES0KIEeSF4vodmiYsA

It's also listed bottom of the video list at: https://www.awareim.com/forum/d/8771

customaware

Thanx for that Tom.

I had forgotten about that.

johntalbott

A f'n checkbox for everything I don't know how to do. 😮

weblike

FOLDER_SIZE Function. Was mentioned as a request earlier in the forum, would be nice to see it in 8.1

weblike

I know that this post title is "Single most..." and already I've posted several requests.
One more 🙂

To be able to send email to outside world. By saying outside world I mean that not only to intelligent objects.
To be able to send emails like in Outlook. Open the form and write the receiver email address.

Thank you,

JonP

Merge/split rows capability in forms please.

Secondarily, make the autocomplete feature more consistent. Sometimes you need to type a space, sometimes not. Sometimes the BO/action shows up in the list, sometimes not. Sometimes it's finicky about case sensitivity, sometimes not (prefer not). Sometimes it just won't activate for something legitimate. The functions don't autocomplete at all.

weblike

JonP wrote
Merge/split rows capability in forms please.

Secondarily, make the autocomplete feature more consistent. Sometimes you need to type a space, sometimes not. Sometimes the BO/action shows up in the list, sometimes not. Sometimes it's finicky about case sensitivity, sometimes not (prefer not). Sometimes it just won't activate for something legitimate. The functions don't autocomplete at all.

Jon please report these directly to support@awareim.com . Sounds like issues not new features.

cheers,

BenHayat

JonP wrote
Secondarily, make the autocomplete feature more consistent. Sometimes you need to type a space, sometimes not. Sometimes the BO/action shows up in the list, sometimes not. Sometimes it's finicky about case sensitivity, sometimes not (prefer not). Sometimes it just won't activate for something legitimate. The functions don't autocomplete at all.

Jon, are you referring to the autocomplete while you're writing code or are you talking about autocomplete dropdown at runtime in app?

JonP

Writing code. Sorry I wasn't clear. It just slows my productivity. I don't consider it a bug so much as an annoyance.

BenHayat

JonP wrote
Writing code. Sorry I wasn't clear. It just slows my productivity. I don't consider it a bug so much as an annoyance.

Yes, it's been like that for a long time and looks like that whole editor was moved to V8. I was hoping V8 would use Eclipse editor for coding and not the custom made from the past.

BenHayat

A refresh ^Bump to this thread to bring it to life. There are some great ideas here.

aware_support

No need to bump this - the thread has been recorded and will be analysed when 8.1 schedule is determined

BenHayat

aware_support wrote
No need to bump this - the thread has been recorded and will be analysed when 8.1 schedule is determined

Ok!

weblike

aware_support wrote
No need to bump this - the thread has been recorded and will be analysed when 8.1 schedule is determined

I also record this 🙂 and my radar saw "8.1 schedule" ..... 🙂

when? where ? ..... 🙂

joking of course..

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