Which features do you want in the next release?

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Re: Which features do you want in the next release?

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Update components that make up AIM:

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Big Red Button / Server Start Stop

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Ability from the UI to stop and start the server.

Single user version while great for working remotely can lock you out if you reload the web page or close the web page without logging out.

This requires you to shutdown the server and start again.

Would also be useful for when you are changing settings that require a restart.
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Default Date Fields to Locale

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At present the default date format is US for new date attributes. This is a highly localised format and very confusing outside the USA.

If the default was Locale then everyone would have their dates set to their own format.
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Multiple Grouping of Queries [IMPLEMENTED]

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At the moment you can only group queries through the UI to one level.

You can fiddle with scripts to make it group to more than one level but it is a faff. Would be good to have this natively.
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Bulk Update Roles [IMPLEMENTED]

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If you have more than a few BO's etc changing the role access is extremely time consuming.

I'd like to be able to select multiple items and make them all read only for example.
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Bulk Removal of Import BOs [IMPLEMENTED]

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Using the web interface Import function (VP menu item - would be good if it could also be used as an operation and attached to a query grid for example), if you only want a user to be able to import one type of BO then it is extremely time consuming to remove all of the others.

A select all / select none check box would fix the issue of when you only have one BO that you want.
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Stretch Form to Bottom of Screen [IMPLEMENTED]

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At the moment it is possible to create a grid and have it stretch to bottom of the screen.

You can also put a grid on a form and stretch the grid to the bottom of the screen, which has the effect of stretching the form to the bottom of the screen.

What is missing is the ability to stretch the form to the bottom of the screen without requiring a grid to be on the form.

Being able to stretch the form to the bottom of the screen would provide visual consistency when you have a form next to a grid as both would stretch to the bottom of the screen.

Edit - or a height in % allowing 100%
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Unlimited Grid Returns and Stretched Grids

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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?

EDIT post Jaymer's comment - OR allow heights to be % with 100% as a valid height.
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Incremental Upgrade Or Extend Last Values.prop

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Updates are a high impact change that requires time to update and then recreate all of the configuration changes that you have made (BASServer for example)

There is inconsistency in what AIM remembers in between updates. For example Linux instals remember the path to the Browser post update yet forgets the connection string to the database.

Would save me a huge amount of time if a clean install asked for all of the config information and then subsequent updates remembered all of this.

Alternatively an incremental upgrade process that replaced only the elements that were different from the current install. It would not be the first time that I forgot to re-add the path to my custom CSS to start.html, or forget to update aware.css to point to the Fontawesome Pro fonts. You can just copy over start.html until there's a major change to it such as adding the Kanban parser.

Similarly if you go to the effort of updating Tomcat or Java version to current then it takes even longer.
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Better Help

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The title is a little misleading. The help is reasonably good. Accessing the help from the Config Tool is not.

The help could benefit hugely from being placed into a content management tool. The current MS Word doc published to HTML lets down the incredible tech that makes up AIM and if I were evaluating the tool would be a turn off.

By placing the help in a content management type tool with comments sections would allow for community participation to clarify things that are missing or unclear, it would also allow for linking to specific elements when you are answering comments on the forum.
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Help when adding calculated fields to Forms

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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>)
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Re: Unlimited Grid Returns and Stretched Grids

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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.
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64 > 32

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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?

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Re: 64 > 32

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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.
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Re: Which features do you want in the next release?

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Consuming a REST API Enhancements

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