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Workflow Administration - Terminate Workflow Instances

PLEASE create separate security permissions around Workflow Instances. Right now, it's baked into the "Workflow" security permission. This isn't helpful - we have to rely on our IT team to terminate workflows when we (the business leads) should be...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Allow button with an external URL value to be added anywhere on the Page

Allow button with an external URL value to be added anywhere on the Page
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

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 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Deletion of closed reporting periods

With the importance of deleting sensitive data combined with GDPR related duties, we would appreciate a solution to select and then delete (or anonymize) reporting periods. More specifically, our system includes various reportings happening on a q...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Allow System Name field to be set by calculation

When defining a calculation on an object that is auto-named, it is not possible to set the System Fields:Name. It is possible to define it, but it will not work (IBM support confirmed this is expected behavior and will create an APAR to prevent th...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Adding new column "Span Columns" in the objects administration of profiles

When configuring an object of a profile there are currently 5 columns visible in the "Object Fields" section:- Name- Field Group- Label- Required- Display Type To check whether any field has the "Span Columns" set to true or false, you have to cli...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Workflow Administration

"Workflow Instances" is a function currently within the "Workflow Maintenance" task screen. This set up does not allow certain tasks available in "Workflow Instances" to be delegated to a lower level of administration without giving additional con...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for the publishing Workflow and View

Currently , we might not be able to capture any history of publishing for views or workflows in Audit Trail. I believe we need to track such information. Furthermore, it is more useful if the detailed change history of views and workflows will be ...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Recycle Bin for OpenPages Processes

We would like to see a recycle bin for processes and other objects deleted from OpenPages so when mistakes occur by a user, admins can be called to assist in restoration. Baring this, a 'soft' delete would be helpful to give users time during thei...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

New UI - ability to save Manage Views sort order

There is currently no way to save the sort order in the Manage Views screen. It is very frustrating when working with many views that you have to keep applying the sort order every time you go into Manage Views
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration