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My ideas: Usability

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Increased character limit of Context Data

Currently, Context Data can only contain 10,281 characters. Some requirements and design require more information to be stored in Context Data. Alternate Solution is to store and retrieve from GenericData Configuration, but it complicates the acti...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Feature to close bulk PEM Portal and Provisioner Activities

Currently, each activity or rollout has to be manually and separately closed. During development, Unit Testing, and UAT cycles lots of activities are created. There should be a way in PEM to bulk close Portal and Provisioner activities based on fi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Validation failure message box

Currently it is possible to add validation to dialogs in tasks. When a partner does not complete/answer accurately there is no way to specifically tell them what to fix. There is a red X next to the field which is in violation, but not what they a...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enable UI dialog table rows to be expanded dynamic for data entry

For tables used for collecting input, provide a setting that would allow a new row to be added after the last row has been used.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Partner invitation should identify the duplicates and warn the sponsor.

PEM should throw an warning saying that the user is already registered or Invitation sent to partner as soon as sponsor clicks on Invite button and the a partner is registered with that Email Id already. This avoid sending the duplicate invites to...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to configure which button in an approval task is highlighted/defaulted

When using an approval task, it would be a nice feature to be able to configure whether the Approve button or the Reject button is the one highlighted/defaulted when the activity is executed. Currently it is always the Approve button. If not confi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Support for Entry Validation Reordering

The order of entry validation determines how entries are evaluated, however entries cannot be moved up or down the list in the UI. In order to create successfully create entry validation criteria, the ability to either insert entries at any place ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add an Undo Button with Control+Z functionality

Undo (Ctrl+z) should undo the last few actions. The UI designer makes it especially easy to accidentally move an item and there is no way to move it back. Simple mistakes like this should be undo-able.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

E-mail Template Variables Standardized

The numbers used to identify variables within e-mail templates should be consistent across all templates.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set tab order for objects within a dialog

Currently the tab order defaults to the order in which the objects were created and can not be changed. The objects get moved around and thus is confusing when trying to tab through to fill out a form.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration