Feature candidates

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Summary

Some features we would like to build that aren't on the Ultimate Office list.

Likely features

  • Process transfer
  • Action improvements
  • Inventory management
  • Library management
  • Overhaul process summaries
    • Build by choosing fields and report types
    • Download
  • Customer contact user
  • Archive suppliers
  • Archive agencies & reps
  • Customer, account, agency, rep view default columns including the columns seen by agent users. (like the existing comm. item default columns feature)
  • Shell option: use view's columns
  • Get rid of "(multiple)" in grids and just always list the selected option.
    • JavaScript truncate for long lists & text fields
  • Process template history
  • More data in the email notification, maybe customizable
  • Customer and account data from commission import

Overhaul fields

  • Process management refactoring
    • Field type enumeration merging
    • Remove "info" classes
    • Refactor "update" methods
    • Account reference "grandfather" hierarchy (Account>Customer>Supplier) replaced with proper dual parent structure.
  • New field types
    • Section
      • a label that allows the user to collapse everything between it and the next label
    • Datetime
    • Date/datetime formula field, aka "Days"?
    • File (fixed)
    • Phone number
    • Process (fixed) reference
  • Field rules
    • Fields and groups can have multiple security conditions
    • Optional validation rules
    • Optional default value per field for new forms
    • Optional help tip per field
    • Yes/no field optional checkbox style
  • Template designer refactoring
    • Handle the new field types and rules
    • More XHR to avoid page reloads to make it easier to work with many fields
    • Add/copy delimited list options
    • Import fields/workflow into existing process
    • Template history
  • Edit & sync list field options

Commissions

  • Refactor add a comm item manually and improve to allow custom var entry
  • Refactor comm item edit to allow edit of anything
  • Customize agency default comm item view & maybe default comm item views per supplier
  • History
    • Two new tabs for the comm history page "Items" and "Adjustments" that would list comm items and adjustments respectively and across all runs in the same grid.
  • Transfers
    • Outgoing transfers history (i.e. "Which agents have setup transfers")
  • Adjustments
    • Import and mass-delete
  • Rep ID note.
    • Columns: Rep ID and Rep ID note for account views.
    • # agencies, # reps for customer views

Management

  • Per agency/user email history
  • Clear subscriber logo

More ideas

  • Versioning for file attachments
  • Create versions of certain pages tailored to mobile devices (maybe better use 3rd party via API in 37signals style (http://www.37signals.com/extras)
  • Password self-reset for agent and customer users
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