Aware IM is, in my opinion, a remarkable piece of work that already shows great promise. Its up to users like us to give Aware the kind of feedback that they can use to help inform their development efforts.
I want encourage Aware to keep us informed about what they intend to add to the product, to be open about their schedule for releasing new versions, and to ask other Aware users to comment on my ideas and add their own.
Here is my list of things in the Configurator I'd like to see improved. All of these are important, I think, to make the development experience less painful and more productive.
1) In menu creation if you have a bunch of menus already made and then decide to create a folder menu item that you want to move the existing menu item to, you are hooped. You need to recreate the items!
2) In the configurator there are many places where there are two lists, one on the left and one on the right with a couple of arrow buttons to move items from one list to the other.
A double click on an item should move it to the other list, instead of click to select and click to move.
An item moved from list A to list B should be selected already in list B. Just now you often need to scroll down to the bottom, select, and only then can you use the up arrow to move it within list B.
3) When you create a new form, its Main section is also created. That section has all of the object's attributes on it. There is no way to delete all attributes. Instead each must be separately selected and deleted and the confim deletion dialog OK button clicked.
I'd prefer it to start empty anyway.
4) Need a Duplicate button, or Copy/Paste for:
- Attributes in business objects.
- Rules in business objects.
- Forms.
- Form sections.
- Presentations.
5) ctrl-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-x, ctrl-v should work in all editable text areas.
6) Should be possible to change the type of a reference attribute after it has been created.
I know this will be hard to do, and could involve data-loss, but if users need to be warned its so much better than having to delete the attribute and start again.
Also its not clear what the consequences of deleting an attribute are. Is it removed from all places that reference it? Or does its name stick around?
There are problems with both, but it would be useful to know either way.
7) I want class attributes in Business Objects. Currently we are forced to use SystemSettings which leads to poor code factoring, and since SystemSettings is persisted there is no way to have in-memory values of this type.
8-) Want a way to put more than one attribute in a form section column, without make a custom form.
Example I have a Salutation (Mr, Mrs etc) attribute, a first name attribute and a last name attribute. I'd like to have them all in one cell of a form section column.
9) if I open up the rules section of the Business Space tree, and open a rule, it does not tell me where that rule is called from.
If I search for rules, when the list of found rules is displayed, if I click on a rule it does show where it was called from, but its not visually obvious, and when I click to open the rule, it does not tell me where that rule is called from.
From the rule's window it would be nice to have a button that takes me to its owner.
thanks,
Terry
