We understand the Out tag can render HTML when the Type property is set to TEMPLATE. This is not possible in PowerPoint. We need to have this feature in PowerPoint as it is one our core docs requiring HTML.

It would be good to support named cells in Excel to be used in formulas as well. With named cells it will be possible to work between different worksheets.

Dear Windward,

Is it possible to make the option to define a condition on a tag more user friendly.

A way to create a condition with a Condition Wizard (that let you select and compare nodes/variables/..) would be very helpfull.

To select a color in the Format wizard, a color picker would also be very helpfull instead of entering hex values manually.

Kind Regards Jochen

Add support for table of contents, table of tables and table of figures to be generated together correctly for outputs for docx

Hi Windward team!

Multi-level axis is a standard excel feature but it is not currently supported by Windward.

It would be very useful so that - for instance - we can group locations by priority, or by area.

See attached screenshot.

Our priority would be to get it in Word templates.

Please add support for additional text form field properties for use in PDF output. Specifically:
1. Multi-line fields (text wraps, carriage return support)
2. Character limits (text can be entered up to character limit)
3. Scroll long text (vertical scroll bar is automatically added to compensate for text that extends beyond the boundaries of multi-line text fielt)
4. Auto font size (as a user types in text, the font size changes to fit the text in the box)

Add support for dynamically merging rows and columns via word functionality or support rowspan/colspan html attributes for tables so that it is rendered properly when generated.

Hi,

I would be interested to exchange knowledge with other Windward users, see what they do and show what we do.

Would be great if Windward could facilitate this :)

Cheers,

Just been working for a couple of hours now, but I found error handling to be poor. Exceptions are thrown with no clear error messages. Documentation is missing (TagException seems bo no exist according to the knowledge base).

Json data source: Distinct value for a column feature is not available.It is a common feature for any reporting tool and it is very much needed for the reports which we are creating.

Data Validation constrains the values of a cell to items in a predetermined range. This would allow selection lists to be populated by AutoTag select statements.

Add the ability to conditionally add a watermark to a word template based on an input parameter.

Use case:
We have an invoice we send to our customers that is a draft. We apply the wording "draft" as a watermark to the template. Once the customer has approved the invoice, we send them a final copy which is identical to the original without the word "draft" as a watermark. Currently, we have to maintain two identical templates to handle this. It would be ideal to only have one template where an input variable controls the display of the watermarked text.

I am currently using Json file as my Data Source, not sure if other data source have same problem. Currently we can sort data based on only field, some times we need to sort the data based on multiple fields. Please try to accommodate this change in the upcoming release.

When you write a formula in a template that references another cell on the same sheet, it increments the row number on each new row that is added by a foreach loop.
It would be great if this worked the same way for formulas referencing other worksheets.

We want to generate PDF forms, so we are using different Word form controls. We found that plain text control is exported into the PDF output as a PDF field, however it has some limitations with text length and wrapping. We are very interested on using rich text controls, since they allow better formatting, longer and wrapped text and inserting tags inside the control to pre-fill the PDF form field.

Since one of the main selling features of Windward is that you can create your reports using Office products which you already know how to do, supporting native conditional formatting in Excel might make more sense to the common user than having to edit Tag properties to accomplish a similar outcome.

Given that your report generator effectively generates rows of data (in Excel format), it would make sense that the ability to setup auto-filters and have them show up in the output be there as well.

As it is now, all our customers who use the output generated from our templates have to manually go into each tab and turn on the column filters, as the filters we have setup in the templates to not make it to the output.

Keyboard shortcuts would be very helpful...Like inserting Out tag, generate a document etc. Also possibility to customize own shortcuts.

.NET Framework will have no ongoing releases, being replaced by .NET Core.
All new development in our company is .NET Core.