Currently we need to be creative with roles to ensure various actions in our processes only become visible after some condition is met. e.g. Once all loop back actions from a draft type stage have been taken enable the "Submit" action, or after certain conditions are met.

How about use the same approach available with system actions to "Only start action if" a condition is met, but apply it to the user actions as well. The action could remain allocated to "ToDo List" or equivalent, and the condition (and of course role) derive if the action appears to the end user.

This could greatly reduce the number of dynamic roles built in a solution, especially those written as

   <if condition met> return <ToDo List> else return nothing

Todd

Could we have the option to specify a field on an external table as an Identity Field, in order to have an auto incrementing field?

As it stands now, a person has to open SQL Management Studio and set the Identity Field in there for a external table. This becomes a problem to remember all the external tables to apply this on when developing on different machines and eventually moving to a prod environment.

It would be nice to have multiple form segments where the visibility could be controlled programatically like other controls.

The Forms dialog for stages does not keep its set size. It would be nice if it remained the same size as last set, as we have to resize it on every single use.

These were perfectly possible in Libraries in 6.0, and I even have a few v6 libraries with the tables still in them. It still works, too.

The functionality was removed, and there seemed no good reason. It was great for making self-contained reusable components. Now I have to add a dummy Project file just to build tables. Now that the table designer is so much better, we use it all the time instead of SQL scripts.

Previously if you didn't want to show a field there was an option called "Don't show", this has been replaced by the word "None" in SR3.

If however you don't select any visibility settings the default is shown as "[None]".

Can this new change be reverted to say "Don't show" again as when clicking through fields noticing the different between [None] and None can be missed. It's nothing major, just something I found wierd in this version especially when I found "Don't show" had a more explicit meaning than "Visibility depends on: None". Reading that doesn't tell me that the field will now be hidden.

These are the opposite way around to every other component which have the name first then the caption. We get caught out just about every time with this one.

There are currently no tool-tips on any of the properties or methods contained in the ECL dlls. This means that anytime you are coding and not sure of exactly which method you need you either have to go back and try to find everything in the ECL documentation or play the code version of Russian Roulette. Comments/Tool-Tips would be very helpful here.

Also, removing the duplicates (ie. Fields vs. Fields2) would make things much easier to deal with.

Every time I open the Business Object tree, all the 'used in' branches are open. This is a pain because to see it properly I have to 'collapse all' and expand again.

I know it's a nice feature, and I'm sure it is good to see it there, but could it stay collpased until we expand it, just like the cother components?

Designer could build resx filed for all objects,not only this which has translated captions.

This will be much easier to send only resx files to translate.

Now You have to enter any field,stage,action and create diferent language caption. After that, new position is added to resx file.

I've asked for it before, but it still has not been fixed. It is a real pain when you have a few processes and a few dozen forms. I am amazed that nobody else has been bothered by this.

Quite often you would like to embellish as form with data in a solution table relating specifically to the folder in use.

For example I would like to add Customer that have been involved in a complaint where the complain is the current folder.

It isn't possible to insert a new row for a data grid when one of the fields is an efolderid. I would be nice to be able to pre-populate a field (and even have this pre-populated field hidden from the user) when a new row is added.

There appears to be an issue with the Administration web client showing previously obfuscated connection passwords in plain text. Administrators logging in have full access to all login and password information used by any process in the system.

Passwords entered into projects within designer are currently obfuscated with *s:

And appear to be stored in the database encrypted:

However when an admin logs into the Administration tools, they have access to every password in plain text:

This affects both LDAP and SQL connections and is a major concern to a client of ours who have very strict procedures in place about storage and retrieval of passwords. It is not appropriate even for Metastorm administrators to have free access to all passwords used by the system.

Given that passwords are encrypted in both the designer (when setting up a connection) and also where they are stored in the database. We request that the password for external systems is encrypted in the admin section of Metastorm. Ideally it would be good to separate out the password from a connection, and possibly even the username. This would allow these to be overwritten (as currently allowed in the designer) without having to know what the password was set to previously.

When you mark a grid in BPM 9 as not 'Read-Only' (i.e. Editable Grid), you also need to manually change the 'Default Usage' to be Optional (as well as the columns you want to be editable). If you don't remember this of course you can't change anything in the grid.

If you re-enable the 'Read-Only' property the Default Usage set's back to read-only. How about when unchecking 'Read-Only' the default usage automatically change to 'Optional'. It would be rare you wouldn't want this.

In a text box today you can define a Client Extension and enter something like 'URL=http://www.metastorm.com', or just 'URL' and the contents of the TextBox become the URL. Very useful when you want to display a a hyperlink on the form, but have a different link for DEV vs PROD for example.

There are situations where it would be great to be able to do a similar thing with this but indicate that the text that the text box display instead be displayed as a label, rather than in a Text Box. The attached image shows one example where we are using text boxes to get folder specific data about who created it, folder name etc, then using a script to copy that to labels on the form. This makes it more visually appealing in this case. If you could just enter a Client Extension for the field indicating 'LABEL' for example we could remove the need for Client Side script to tidy this sort of thing up.

There are a large number of fields that need some kind of selection. These are in the main, Business Object fields (eg in the assign VS activity), and form / field / role selections for stages and actions.

These always open to the same size, which is very small when you have any reasonable sized system. It would be great if these opened to the right size, or at least to the last size you set it to.

This may sound trivial, but it increases the number of clicks by about three or four times. When you do this several hundred times a day, as we do, it becomes a fairly constant irritation.

Not sure if this has already been reported, but I noticed that when designing forms in the Designer, the size of the form seems to be limited by the screen resolution of the monitor being used. I had a couple of long forms I had imported from a 7.6 procedure and I could not resize the form, denying me access to the controls beyond a certain point in the form to edit them. I tried creating a new form and the same thing happened. The forms appear the right size in the UI when manually setting the height, but the controls are all stacked on top of one another at the bottom of the form. Just to note, my screen resolution is set at 1440x900 and the forms would not expand past a height of 761 in Designer.

Would like the grid to display content of a captured memo field in a word wrap format. Currently the row only display x-length. Would be nice to display the whole content.

It could be nice to have possibility to refresh (requery with DB) BO from code.