Over time I have build a list of forge components that I am fond of to use.
It would be nice it the ideas page allows me to mark a component as favorite.
And that I can then sort or filter on my favorite components.
When working on a new project it helps me to quickly locate the components that I will most likely want to install in the environment.
For multi-tenant applications it would be nice if there would be a tenant override of CSS possible, this would ease the implementation of tenant branding like logo, background, fonts and color usage.
Our community has developers with many years of experience but for some reason or another, some of them don't have certifications... But they still are good developers and part of our community. This year several times I have heard during the Next Step and OWDC people saying "well I can't collect the certification badges because I don't have one. But I still like OutSystems and have been using it for years already".
In a way to bring our community together and make everybody more embraced by our swag what about create a new badge?!
Let's create the dinosaur badge and give it to the ones with more than 10 years of OutSystems experience!!!!
Unfortunately, I'm not part of those with more than 10 years =( hehe
When an integration (SOAP or REST) is exposed or consumed, the default icon shows, but the way the arrow is pointing, whether it's exposed or consumed:
(The above icons are from the context menu, but are also shown in the tree.)
However, when assigning a custom icon, unless the custom icon also has some indication, the distinction is lost:
(The first one is an exposed API, the bottom two ones are consumed.)
Also, when clicking the APIs, Service Studio only shows "REST API", but not whether they're exposed or consumed: only the different properties tell what you're looking at:
(Exposed REST API)
(Consumed REST API)
At the very least, "REST API" should be replaced by "Exposed REST API" and "Consumed REST API" respectively, but it would be extra nice if there would be an indication near/on the icon in the tree as well (perhaps an arrow overlay) to minimize confusion.
Many REST services implement sending files, documents etc. by having a body with multipart/form-data. There are many questions on the forum about this, e.g. here, here and here. Unfortunately, the OutSystems Platform lacks native support for this, leading to workarounds like this Forge Component or "manually" modifying the request data in the OnBeforeRequest, which leads to things ugly code like this:
(Yeah, that's mine :).)
So it would be a great addition to the Platform if it had native support for multipart/form-data for REST services, at the very least for consuming them. That would make our lives just a tad bit easier!
All the OutSystems community users have a public profile (with visibility settings).
OutSystems portal has provided Community, Learning, Forums, Jobs, Support everything integrated similar to its platform (ideate, develop, deploy, deliver, mangage, monitoring etc).
What I miss is the custom profile URL, which can be shared as identity. Currently it is https://www.outsystems.com/profile/<profileIdentifier>/ here numeric profile identifier should be replacable with available string slug making it nice custom (memorable) URL.
It would be nice that in a Reactive Web App, to be able to copy/pase client variables to Site properties and visa versa.
Currently we can choose between consuming all methods of a REST using the Swagger definition, and adding a single one doing everything manually.
I'd like to have the option to select which methods to import using the former method, as otherwise when I need just one or two methods, I can choose between importing everything and deleting what I don't need (including structures etc.), or manually importing them. Both are extra work I'd like to avoid.
Here's the link to a similar idea about SOAP.
Being LowCode a hpaPaas platform, there is less possibility to write the Codes, but keep in mind it expects you to write code even it is low in quantity. It's LowCode, not the NoCode.
It would be better if user-written codes are being validated with W3C markup validation service.
To promote secure code, on the OutSystems platform, there should be an option to run the application against The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.
In my opinion,
When debugging a Module, it's possible to use Step Into to execute assignments one by one (instead of executiong the entire Assignment Statement at once). This is a great feature, but it could use some improvements:
EDIT: The above should also go for Structure/List mappings.
Community members that are active on forum, build components and contribute with ideas are rewarded for the community activities by scoring points for the community ranking.
It would be nice if community members that are speakers, could be rewarded to, ways to do could be by making recorded session available on OutSystems Learn site, and reward the speaker for unique community member view.
The Upload Widget and Download Statement only function when the Button or Link that triggers them is set to Submit. Setting it to Ajax Submit will result in a runtime error (for Upload) or downloading the ASPX file (for Download), both unwanted.
Therefore Service Studio / TrueChange should be able to detect when a Screen Action that has at least one end node being the Download Statement is called from an Ajax Submit, and if so gives a TrueChange warning.
Also, a Screen that has an Upload Widget calling a Screen Action that uses the Upload Widget in Expressions or Assignments etc. by a Button or Link that has Ajax Submit should give a TrueChange warning.
Additionally, TrueChange should not suggest setting a Submit to Ajax Submit when there are Ajax Refreshes inside the Screen Action, as it does currently, but instead suggest to remove the Ajax Refreshes in the cases listed above.
This will help novice OutSystems Developers, as problems with this regularly appear on the forums (e.g. here).
Since P10, we can use Mapping assigments when assigning two structures of different type (which is great!). However, when there are many of them, it would be nice if they were collapsable so to hide the details of the mapping. A black triangular arrow on the grey "Mapping" bar would be ideal.
An example of when this would be useful:
SetCurrentLocale lets you set the OutSystems locale for translations, but doesn't effect the locale of the underlying .NET/Java stack. This causes problems with e.g. collation with a ListSort (see e.g. this forum topic). Therefore SetCurrentLocale should also set the .NET/Java locale (for .NET by using CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture).
On the OutSystems UI documentation page you can see and use examples of the available screen templates for Reactive Web and Mobile UI.
https://outsystemsui.outsystems.com/OutSystemsUIWebsite/ScreenOverview?RuntimeId=1
For web all templates are workable, for mobile some however are just a screen shot.
It would be nice if all of them are workable examples, not just a picture.
It would be nice if OutSystems would provide a reactive version of the Data Grid component.
Given the amount of post on the forum regarding data grid related topics, it is fair to say it is a popular component that developers use. With the shift from tradional web to reactive web applications, it would be a pitty to not have this component available as a reactive version.
On customers with a Sentry license doing massive data migration tis almost impossible to do and if you can it is higly in-efficient.
We need more access to the database to do bulk processing, Sentry is blocking all easy ways to do ETL for large volumes of records.
This is slowing down rather than speeding up the develoment process... in contradiction with the sales pitch of OutSystems.