Windward Core
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Support for .NET Core via NuGet
.NET Framework will have no ongoing releases, being replaced by .NET Core.
All new development in our company is .NET Core.5 votesHello Reporter,
I am happy to announce this idea has been accepted for future development. I will come back when we have targeted a version for this functionality to be released and update the ticket then. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Excel dropdown lists not rendered in generated output
Would like Excel Drop-down Lists to be available in generated output. Currently available in Word templates that can be used in both Word and PDF output but not able to do this with an Excel template.
4 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally and accepted it for future development. I will update this ticket again once development has been started on this functionality. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Expand the capabilities of meta data tree tool tips
In the meta data tree, I would like the ability to modify the tool tip that is shown with newlines so that I can have a more extensive tip, and also with links so that users can get from the tool tip to company documentation.
4 votesHello Reporter,
I am happy to announce that we have accepted this idea for future development! I will update this ticket again when we have news about when this functionality can be expected. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Add support for Office table styles to Excel templates.
Currently, Office default table styles are not supported in tables in Excel templates, and don't appear in output generated from those templates. Formatting tables in Excel templates is basic functionality expected by Excel users, and limits the formatting options available for output generated from Excel templates.
4 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea internally and have accepted it for development. I will update this idea again when we have started development on this functionality. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Different PDF converter/convert through Word
We are having a lot differences between the Word output and that generated by Windward PDF. Spacing can be different and sometimes the PDF does things wrong that Word does correctly, such as text going through a footer or the PDF not breaking the page correctly when using Keep with Next. It seems to me a lot of defelopment time goes into trying to make the PDF output better.
In literally every instant, the PDF from Word's Export feature worked correctly. Also, the output is half the file size, which is also very important for us.
A lot of our…4 votesHello Reporter,
Perhaps you can benefit from Windward’s “Use Office for PDF Output” functionality, this sounds like the functionality you described. Please see this Ohana article on how you can setup the Windward Engine to use Microsoft Office’s native PDF export functionality for PDF output: https://ohana.windwardstudios.com/m/76878/l/1178439-how-do-i-use-microsoft-office-to-generate-pdf-output-in-report-designer
Please let me know if this solution works for you, or expand on your request if I misunderstood it. Thank you.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Catch exception on expired license
When using the RESTful Engine with an expired license the application throws a 500 with an unhandled exception. I would suggest you improve your application by catching your exceptions and throwing meaningful error codes and messages to the client.
I get the exception when calling the version endpoint with an expired license. I tried uploading the Postman response but that doesn't work either. Below is the stack trace.
[LicenseException: Expired license key ]
net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport._init(Boolean ) +6115
net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport.init() +26
net.windward.api.csharp.Report.Init() +24
RESTfulEngine.WebApiApplication.InitLicenseAndEngine() in C:\agent_work\1\s\restfulengine\RESTfulEngine\Global.asax.cs:87[HttpException (0x80004005): Expired license key ]
System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.EnsureAppStartCalledForIntegratedMode(HttpContext context, HttpApplication app) +520
System.Web.HttpApplication.RegisterEventSubscriptionsWithIIS(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context, MethodInfo[] handlers)…4 votes -
Scatter chart - same size for markers in plot area and in the legend
Hello,
Right now when working with a scatter chart in Word if you have different sizes for the markers they will be shown as different sizes on the plotted area, but in the legend the marker sizes are the same size.
In the attached picture 1 and 2 have different sizes on the plotted area and in the legend they are the same size but smaller. Right now only marker sizes 3 and 4 behave normally (the marker size is the same on the plot and in the legend).
I was told that this is a known limitaion.
Can you…
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Allow entering Array-type Input Parameters
It would be great if we could add an array-type variable of either String or Number type as an input variable. This could be used to filter datasources with a IN statement, for example.
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Allow for dynamic drop down based on amount of returned rows
Currently, when a drop down is created in a cell (static or dynamic) the drop down is removed when the report is generated.
Either add a Windward drop down function (ideal), or support Excel generated drop downs.
Another helpful addition to this would be to make the drop down options distinct (optional, chosen by user).
3 votesHello Reporter,
I am happy to report that we have accepted this idea since sufficient interest was measured elsewhere. I will update this ticket again once development has been started on this functionality. Thank you for your suggestion, and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our products.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Support Unix Time
Support Unix Time and be able to format that as a date or datetime
Perhaps a new macro could do this for us.
example converter
https://www.unixtimestamp.com/index.php3 votes -
Images in HTML specified as absolute URLs
We use Winward to generate HTML content for marketing emails. These mailers often have images included along with the text. However, some email clients block images in HTML that are embedded inline using base64 encoding. An alternative solution is to specify the source of the image as an absolute URL.
For example, the following inline embedded image:
<img src="data:image/jpg;base64, iVBORedghAAAfrdsdge=">should be replaced with:
<img src="https://www.myserver.com/car.jpg">.It would be great if Winward could support adding images specified by absolute URLs into templates.
3 votesHello Reporter,
Your idea has been accepted for future development. Thank you for your idea and please submit any other suggestions you have to improve our software.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Disconnect DataSets from Datasources
Disconnect DataSets from Datasources. If we could create a dataset seperately (Like we do with Query Tags) we could have datasets defined in the template itself and not in the datasources. This allows us to change the datasource when generating the template on the Staging or Prod machines and still have the same subset of data selected.
It would make templates much more reusable as we could define a handful of more general datasources and limit the data requested by using DataSets in the templates.
3 votesHello Reporter,
We have reviewed this idea and accepted it for future development. We will come up with a solution where you specify in the Engine to use the Dataset defined in the template instead of specifying the same query in the Engine. This way, changes made to the Dataset in the template can be used in the Engine at runtime without you needing to update the query somewhere in the Engine, but rather just by updating the template.
If this solution does not solve your problem, please let me know. Thank you for your idea and please submit any other ideas you have to improve our software.
Adam Austin
Product Manager. -
Excel worksheet display or be dropped based on value from data
There is a need to hide or show Excel worksheet based on value we are getting. That could work with IF tag where value "true" shows tab and value "false" hides tab.
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Ability to output equations in WindWard
In the latest version of WindWard it's not possible to output Microsoft Equations, in the output .DOCX file the places where the equations should've been are left empty.
Ideally, the equations are shown in the generated output.
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Password protect excel output
The same way you can protect a PDF with a password, it would be great if we could do it for excel files too.
http://ideas.windwardstudios.com/forums/248503-windward-beta-program/suggestions/34628473-encrypted-pdf-output1 vote -
Use an OUT tag in a graph title
I want to produce a series of graph for different equipment types, and put the equipment type in each graph title.
There is a work around (put the graph title outside of the graph) which is ok for any advanced user. However, our plan is to give access to Windward Designer to a large crowd of users from our clients. These users will have limited support and training, i.e. each work around becomes a barrier. The expectation is that you should be able to put an OUT tag in the title1 vote -
1 vote
Hello Reporter,
We have received additional votes for this idea under another request, and this has been accepted for future development. Please stay tuned for this functionality to be released in a future version.
Adam Austin
Product Manager -
Add the ability to format output data in Chart Tag
This would be similar to the formatting that can be applied to an Out Tag through the Properties tab. This would help to format data that's displayed in a Chart data table fields.
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Named cells in Excel
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.
1 vote -
Distinct Values Macro for all Datasources
Would like to have a new macro distinctvalues to be used against any datasource
1 vote
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