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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 7, 2025

advanced control elements for variable definitions

When starting a report generation within document builder a connection has to be selected. After that variables can be set to manage the appearance of the report. Those variables accept only textvalues. The request here is to have the ability to use following elements:

 

1) Checkbox for boolean values: Since the current value is a text field it is error-prone. e.g. cammel-case or upper-case or lower-case / true or false in english or foreign language / additional blank or space character

proposed solution: having a check box, which can handle only two stated by default (checked or not)

 

2) Drop down lists (Single selection):  Currently the entry point for a report generation is a module id. The user paste the module id into the field and then expensive checks are applied. e.g. does the module exists / is the module of correct type / ...

proposed solution: having a drop down list (Combo box) which can be filled by either fixed values (yes / no) or by the result of a request. Having an additional filter field to reduce the entries in the list would be nice too. Here are some examples 

- get a list of all module id's and description of the currently selected stream

- get data from the report builder if advanced data has to be retrieved

- get a list of gc streams and baselines of a particular project. This would significantly reduce the number of connections as currently the stream/baseline is part of the connection.

- get a list of all views. We use views for some of the reports to be more flexible to the data which should be printed on the report. Each report has his own view. Currently the view itself is part of the URL from the connection. The request would be to be able to retrieve all views with id and name having a specific keyword in the name.

 

3) Drop down lists (Multi selection): same as 2) but having the ability to select more than one entry. Currently we use coma separated list as text. Problems here are: the wrong separator is used / there is a blank or space character after the separator / typo in the entrie itself / ...

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter