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Combine Filter/Split step
Hi, I'm raising this on here as it's come up a few times with various users and I want to see what others' think of the idea to essentially combine the filter and split steps (which perform the same action, with the only difference being the split step allows users to view unfiltered results): vs I myself have found on…
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Manually reviewing clusters of duplicate records
What problem are you facing? As a Find duplicates user I want to be able to manually evaluate and change clusters of records where I think the rules have matched records incorrectly e.g. I've got a husband and wife in my data, both called M. Smith and they share the same postal address, email address and loyalty card…
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Sticky Notes attached to Workflow step
Just a thought… but it would be really nice if Sticky notes could be pinned to workflow steps (I always provide decisions or descriptions of steps as part of knowledge transfer). That way if I move my workflow step the Sticky note comment moves with it (or worse, someone hits the auto-arrange button and now my Sticky notes…
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📊 New chart types
With an increasing number of users now spending more and more time building (and then interacting with) charts and dashboards, there are a couple of additional requests I'm hearing cropping up relating to this so I'm posting them on here for discussion and to get the wider Community's thoughts. They are: Adding some new…
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Prevent object tags from requiring a workflow to be re-published
What problem are you facing? I have applied the new Object Tags to various workflows. In each case the workflow status changed from Published to Draft when the Object Tag was saved. The tags can be bulk added but the workflows must then all be individually re-published and a comment added. What impact does this problem…
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To be able to use groups and group permissions when using SAML and LDAP
What problem are you facing? Administrators are currently having to add individual users. This is a pain when a customer has more than 10 users to add. What impact does this problem have on you/your business? Not user friendly and time consuming to add users. Do you have any existing workarounds? If so, please describe…
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Include Metadata in the Export step
What problem are you facing? I would like to include metadata in the export step (specifically in the JDBC option) that includes metadata for the target system and table (e.g. tablename, DBMS system, credentials used etc.) as this would help users / DBAs to debug/resolve any issues or be included in a point-in-time audit…
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Configuration of Line Endings in Export Step
What problem are you facing? The option to select what type of Line ending that should be applied to an export What impact does this problem have on you/your business? Different clients have requests on the specific file format they want depending on how they load these files. There are some that request their files with…
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Adding gzip Compression Method
What problem are you facing? gzip(.gz) compression method option not available when adding of compressed datasets and in the export step for compress or compress and encrypt. What impact does this problem have on you/your business? Most internal and clients files are compressed using .gz. This is has been the case for…
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Issue list as a source for charts & indexes?
It would be so helpful if Issue lists could be used as a data source for charts and indexes. For example, I have a nice donut chart of my issues (includes custom status) that I share with a customer in a dashboard. Currently, I have to send the issue list data to a dataset and then let the chart use that dataset for the…
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UX Improvement - Output label case sensitive
What problem are you facing? The Workflow step output names/labels are being all converted to lower case when the reusable workflow is added inside another workflow. What impact does this problem have on you/your business? It makes it more difficult to distinguish between outputs, especially when there are several, which…
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Adding an Owner to my business rules
Submitted on behalf of a customer. We have created many different validation rules to monitor the quality of different datasets over time. It would be useful to denote who is the owner of a specific rule in case changes need to be made in future.
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OAuth 2.0 authentication method with Snowflake
What problem are you facing? How can we connect to Snowflake external system with OAuth 2.0 authentication method? What impact does this problem have on you/your business? We cannot develop new functionalities. Do you have any existing workarounds? If so, please describe those. We can connect through a user ID / password…
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UX improvement - connecting Workflow steps
Submitting on behalf of a user: What problem are you facing? Sometimes it can be a bit tricky connecting two workflow steps that have ended up far apart. What impact does this problem have on you/your business? It's a bit fiddly and slightly more time consuming. Do you have any existing workarounds? If so, please describe…
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Different date formats not being recognized as a date
What problem are you facing? Because the data is coming from many different sources the dates have different formats and when they are mixed up in one input it gets difficult to put them in the same format as they are not recognized as date datatype, so I would love to be able to just use the format date function and fix…
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Importing data into Salesforce child objects
I have a user case to use out of the box functionality that come with Salesforce and is available in the Progress Driver to relate data in parent and child objects on import. In a Salesforce object you can designate a field as an external ID. When you load a child object such as Contact where the parent is Account and you…
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Ability to select specific last number of batches in charts
What problem are you facing? For charts, if I only want to list the last N batches, I have to create a whole new process to create a new dataset. What impact does this problem have on you/your business? Extra maintenance and resources Do you have any existing workarounds? If so, please describe those. Use workflow to…
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Add schema changes to Snapshot automatically
Submitting this on behalf of various Data Studio users. What problem are you facing? I've got a Dataset that will regularly add columns and I need to create a Snapshot for this. But my snapshot requires a given schema and to change the accepted schema I have to map the columns manually. Is there a way for Snapshots to…
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Creation date
Adding the 'Creation date' in the objects listing (workflows, functions, etc) would be a very useful feature.
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If-else flow in workflow
Please introduce an if-else logic in workflow step. Currently this is being achieved with issuing fire-events and executing next workflow based on the fire event. It would be nice to control the workflow steps with if-else logic. Please let me know if there is a better way to execute if-else logic other than using fire…
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Job execution details to capture column mappings
Some of our workflows, when ran using difference sources (for different clients), will have different column mappings at job execution vs workflow definition. Could this be displayed as part of the Job Execution Details? We require functionality like this to report on what column mappings and parameter values have been…
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Visualisation improvements
It will be great to see one view shared across which all spaces and which all wfs
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Option in Schedules to run without Fire Events
A while ago Experian kindly added in an option to run individual workflows without the Fire Events being triggered. Would it be possible to add the same option for a whole Schedule of workflows? I've been asked if I can refresh a large number of workflows so we can see their results but without the emails being sent to…
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Data refresh not adding a new column without a manual refresh.
Dataset refresh does not add a new column, when it is added in the table in source system. Manual refresh is required in that case
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Administration Space containing info on all objects
George_Stephen - December 11 "Please create a Administration Space that contains information of all objects in all spaces" This discussion was created from comments split from: Having an issue managing too many objects.
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Avoiding the same data being loaded into multiple Spaces
Submitted on behalf of a customer. Sometimes users might be unaware that the data they are about to load already exists in a different Space. Rather than sharing it as a View we end up with multiple versions of the same data making it difficult to know which is the correct version to use. One idea is an administrator…
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Manually reviewing clustered matches
Submitted on behalf of a customer. There are tools in the workbench that are useful to analyze Find duplicates match results, but the problem we are having is when there are records matched as a Possible match within a cluster we want to manually review them and maybe allow the reviewer to set them as a definite match or…
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💡 Submit a challenge idea 💡
We love to hear challenge ideas from our Community members, so if you have an idea that you think would make a great challenge, please pop your idea in the comments below. We can work with you to suggest any changes for clarity or formatting. (If you already have a dataset in mind, please ensure that no personal…
