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Option to change Field type from Simple String to Large Text

We are facing the challenge that after implementation, it is found out that simple string fields do not allow enough characters to be added and therefore we need to change the field into a large text field.This is currently only possible by creati...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Expose Field Analysis through REST API

The newly introduced field analysis is a very helpful feature - in order to use this in external tools, we would want to have the JSON data that the field analysis returns to the UI exposed vie the REST API.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Under review

Generate PDF documents from documents stored in OpenPages

A new feature for converting Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, etc.) to PDF would be very useful. Users can upload documents in various formats to OpenPages, but reports for regulatory bodies must be generated in PDF format. With this feature, the...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Consistent Navigational views for Calculations, Workflows and Views

Currently when viewing all the views, you can filter by Object Type or view name but similar functionality doesn't exist on Workflows and Calculations which makes it difficult to search for Workflows and Calculations. Just to summarize, we need th...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Planned for future release

Ability to customize content of MyTasks (e.g. additional columns/headers, etc.)

Currently, the content and layout of the My Tasks tab cannot be changed. Information is limited only to the ‘Type’, ‘Workflow Name’, ‘Stage’(Status), ‘Criticality’ and ‘Stage Due Date’. Some of this information may not be valuable to most of our u...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Ability to save migration variables

While exporting configuration, there is no way to check what variables were selected and exported and imported.
19 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

service level backup for openpages

would need automated service level backup for open pages alone so in cases where there are multiple services being consumed and a cluster level backup might loose progress in restoration, scenario 1:customer is using openpages and cognos but two d...
19 days ago in OpenPages Ideas 0 Submitted

Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Ability to update data within Grid

When viewing data in a Grid view - be it the master grid view or a grid within a task view, it would be nice to have an edit mode toggle similar to how we currently have in task view where users can update attributes directly from the grid instead...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Ability to customize the stage reminder email body

Useful: Ability to customize the stage reminder (scheduled reminder) email body, standard email body content doesn't satisfy customer. They want custom reminder emails just like the notification on the workflow action. Benefit: Stage reminder (sch...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Under review