DrawMGT Wish List

• Requests and Ideas for new DrawMGT Features

Major Features

• Generic reports
• Dashboard that displays:

  • Revisions with workflow steps assigned to me.

  • New/pending/repoened tasks assigned/delegated to me

Minor Bugs

General

Translation Related

• Fix getMessage so that an empty message default to the default language's message

• Search for \t\t in Messages.txt, FieldNames.txt, TableNames.txt and add missing DE translations

• Fix missing DE translations:
  • OK - After file upload
  • Next Action - New task
  • Comment types

Document Related

• Display drawing component name in front of entry field in input form. Use a tag to display the name. DONE 2009-11-13 V11.3

• Suppress display of '*' for non-required drawing code components
• Allow changing of document codes, even if a revision file has been uploaded, provided the file uses an internal number.
• Add button 'preview', which stays in the input form. Sets the drawing code derived fields, and leaves you in the input form.
• Add a comment field for each workflow field that has an approval status. This is to allow entry of a comment for approved with comments.
• Make entry of a comment required when a revision is rejected
• Add approval status overrulled (for release/versand only?)

• Allow different workflow types for each revision. Add workflowTypeId to Revisions. Drawings workFlowTypeId --> defaultWorkflowTypeId

Task Related

• In Document Detail: When you press the New Comment button, it should copy the classification information from the document to the new task.
• Allow entry/update of subscribers when entering a new task

Searching

• Implement additional search fields for documents:

  • Search for non-completed workflow steps assigned to X
  • Quick search for document workflow tasks assigned to me (or someone else). Like comment search.

• Idea: Simple for V11.x hierarchical reference data

  • Implement a search code, to use instead of the ID value - How to make it efficient?
  • Allow non-active items in dropdown lists

Email Related

• Generate email when a new comment is created - Check if this is implemented, and how to configure it
• Generate email when a new comment note is entered - Check if this is implemented, and how to configure it

Configuration Documentation

• Document validation rule for checker != approver
• Document for 'send mail: if required, always, never' works

History Related

• Implement field-level history messages. List before/after for each field that was changed. At least for:
  • Revisions
  • Tasks
  Could be solved generally by database trigger. Apache-PHP connects-disconnects from the database at every request. Therefore the userId should be saved to a small table with the database session id (@@pseudo_thread_id for MySQL) as key at every action, to allow the trigger to determine the user. Small example for using triggers:

• create table history ( date date, time time, session_id int, old int, new int );
  create trigger tr_upd_comments after update on Comments for each row 
    insert into history values( now(), now(), @@pseudo_thread_id, old.projectPhaseId, new.projectPhaseId );
  
  update Comments set projectPhaseId = 8 where commentId = 10;
  select * from history;

• Implement file versioning for uploaded files (add a version number field to the internal file names?)

Back-End Tools

• Update app/etc/uploadFile.pl to:
  • handle internal file names
  • handle matching of first 'x' characters of filename against drawing code