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Re: Workflow Steps with Multiple Approvals

Hi - I've added your request as a feature request to PM.

Re: Admin Table Downloads

Hi - so in the desktop, we check for admin changes before any command. My particular approach to this is to select a document, and press F2 (assign document to another user.) (This won't work if the document is OUT or NEW) but it will first check for admin downloads, then bring up the dialog with a list of users to assign the doc to. You can then click cancel (or type escape key) and know that you're up to date.

You don't have to use assign - almost every command will first check - but it's a command that's enabled for most documents most of the time.

Hope this helps!

Gene.Sewell

Posting bugs/defects for admins to see

I feel like I've wasted hours troubleshooting something and then a bit more finally describing and demonstrating it to helpdesk. Then it typically continues that helpdesk will look up some keywords on an internal system and report back (sometimes in minutes) that "Oh, that's already been reported. Shall I add you to that ticket?"

Can we get at least some limited visibility to what has been reported as defects? I'll sign an NDA if necessary to get access to that sort of information if it's easily searchable and filterable by the release.

Anyone else?

jtome

Re: Acquire checkout from different libraries

Hi - here's my take - I can see the need for the feature request.

If you have "unique filenames" set to "enforce system wide" - it would then be easy to select a bunch of duplicate filenames and do the "acquire checkout."

Without being sure about filenames being unique, the UI would be complicated. The reason for the current UI stems from the need to select which one of possibly many libraries for the file.

I can put such a feature request in - do you have unique filenames system wide turned on? Without that I would consider the feature more complicated to implement.

Gene.Sewell

Re: Refresh Current Window (F5) Problems

Hi Folks!

The list of recent known issues gets pulled together, just before each new version is released.

This is included in your download from the Customer Portal.

In the Docs sub folder you'll find the AdeptUpdateNotes.pdf which includes "Known Issues and Differences" section.

I understand this is not a complete list and doesn’t include know issues that get known after the release.

Chris.Fabri

Re: Refresh Current Window (F5) Problems

Hi David - Thank you for posting on the forum

I just checked with my technical team and this defect is expected to be fixed in 2018 Service Pack 2

Patricia Heubach

Desktop tip: Do you know about "Ribbon Command Search?"

This falls into the "Tips" section.

When using the Adept Desktop - we switched from a "menu" system to a "ribbon" system. One frustrating problem that I've had with ribbon systems is it's sometimes hard to find the command you are looking for.

To solve this problem, I wrote a command search tool that folks like, once they discover it. To find it I right click on the blank area of the ribbon top left. You can also find it by clicking on the oval drop down menu at the top right of the UI.

Invoking the tool you are presented with a more or less empty dialog box. If you try typing part of the command name, however, you'll see a list of commands that have part of the text you typed in their name somewhere. For example, if I type "copy" then I see seven commands listed.

Single clicking on one of those commands will cause the ribbon to change to show you the tab the command is on. The label for the panel and button name is in the dialog so you can visually locate the button.

In addition, when you single click - the large button on the dialog is enabled with the text "Execute" and if you click execute (or just double click the command name in the list) the command is immediately executed - no more action required.

One could say you could almost just use this single command search for all the UI for the desktop. No need to ever click through the available tabs.

Gene.Sewell

Adept Maintenance - How, When and What do you do?

Good Afternoon Everyone!
I'm curious what everyone is doing for maintenance of their Adept System.
* Do you currently review your system yearly?
* Do you go back through to clean up old libraries or data fields?
* Do you check the performance of your Adept system?
* Do you archive your Audit Trail?

I've heard of many different processes on how people perform maintenance on their systems. I also know that Synergis provides yearly health checks which I know some of you may take advantage of.

Thanks
Judie

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