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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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to administer division partners and LOB users via the PEM Portal UI

Currently, Divisions can be created via the portal UI, however, the assigning/unassigning of partners to divisions and the assigning/unassigning of LOB users can currently only be done via API calls. It would be much easier if this could be done v...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Systems and System-related objects should be visible in the Portal UI.

There should be a way to view a system, its extensions, and profile references in the PEM Portal. This would provide users with easy access to this information as a reference when a campaign is not currently open for that system. It would also giv...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Popup on Partner "Start task" when Campaign Waiting on Sponsor Action

It is not clear to partner's when a campaign is waiting for Sponsor's to complete approvals/tasks. Currently, the partner is able to click the "Start task" button, but nothing happens. The icon at the top of the screen is small and not obvious to ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Store more than 10 data fields

Often we have scenarios where SFG Solution uses external database tables. These tables can have any number of columns. When PEM activities are customized to collect data from sponsor/partner for the table and if the number of columns is more than ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Support to Rearrange Columns in a Table

Columns can only be inserted at the end of a table. Sometimes a new column has to be added in the middle of the table which requires requires existing columns be deleted then recreated in the correct order. The ability to either rearrange columns ...
over 5 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 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration