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Platform Features

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Activity tab with all history, regardless of reporting periods

Hello, OpenPages is only showing the Activity for the selected reporting period, but it should be great if all history, from the beginning of the object, were shown, regardless the selected reporting period.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Terminate Workflow Instance from Another Workflow

It would be useful to be able to terminate a workflow instance from another workflow. Currently, it is possible to start a workflow for a record, but only if it has not been enrolled already. As an example, when a record is "in review" status, the...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Create a numerical drop down field.

Can we create the ability to have a enumerated field where the options are considered a number? This causes us issues where we use the chart functionality on the dashboard or try to sort on Cognos as the numbers are stored as text. We would like t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Support non open source anti-virus software for the scanning of files.

In OpenPages® 8.3.0.1 and later releases, you can use Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) to scan files for viruses and malware before the files are imported into OpenPages. Files that fail the scan are not uploaded. ClamAV is an open source, cross-platform, ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Add Monitor Capability to Scheduler

Currently there is no ability to automate the monitoring of scheduled jobs. Each morning one must open each job individually to see if the job execution was successful. Most job schedulers have an alert feature if the job failed, and in OpenPages ...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Future consideration

Workflow bulk termination and restart enhancements

In developing GRC workflows, it's apparent that if we publish a workflow version and users begin to use it, and then we publish a newer version of the workflow later on, the users are expecting to see the newer version reflected in their existing ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Allow Creation Date as a 'Due Date' field argument (with offset) for Workflows

Currently if workflow instances are started and stopped (to do required tasks such as workflow version upgrades/releases) the due dates are all reset. Currently you can only use 'Workflow Start Date' which would reset or a field. You cannot lock i...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Static link to an object in OpenPages should open in a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new window

If a user adds a Dashboard panel with a static link to an object within OpenPages that they have access to in their current profile, the view for the object should open up as a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new separate window.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Add File deletion policy

Add File deletion policy , so that after a certain time (7 years) , the system will auto delete the files.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration