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Customized automated report functionality

Earlier we had an option to create customized reports in BPN. This option was sunset and now we are unable to create any new customized reports. We are receiving the new requests from customers to create customized reports based on document type,...
9 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Alerting/Notifications 2 Planned for future release

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments,

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments.
12 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 3 Not under consideration

InFlight PPID Business Field Filter Search

The Protocol Started >> Event Details Tab displays the PPID (Protocol Profile ID) for OB transactions in InFlight. It would be extremely useful if PPID was added to the 'Business Field' Search filter drop-down. This would allow Internal Supp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 3 Planned for future release

Bulk export maps from ConfigHub/ConfigCenter

Currently we dont have any option to export all maps (.mxl) from ConfigHub or Config Center. It is a TDS task to support and implementations teams to download all the maps one by one. By implementation this we can save a lot of time. Now a days cu...
9 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Future consideration

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

Provide an ACTIVE MAP report - need to see a report of top maps being utilized.

Helps us to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps usage.
2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network 0 Under review

Ability to see all trading partners associated with a specific map

to help facilitate massive EDI projects when changes are being made in your ERP.
2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network 0 Under review

Have the ability to see an inactive trading partner listing ie trading partners set up but no longer using.

to help drive electronic ordering initiatives in our organization.
2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network 0 Future consideration

Ability to convert TEXT / HTML data to PDF in GIODE flows

We would like to have Text/HTML-to-PDF convertor (PDF Generator) available to be executed as an XProcessor. In other words, any TEXT -or- HTML payload passed to this XProcessor should be converted into PDF format. This will help customers to recei...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Sterling API Gateway Enablement: Enable Customer Company for ‘connections’ option through SCBN Hub

When a customer company name is given Config Hub access, only the self-service of Codelist and map gets enabled. To setup API Gateway configuration, the development team has to manually run an API to get the Connection parameter enabled in Config ...
8 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 Future consideration