 | José de Alencar Pereira Neto 12/7/2010 2:24:17 AM Wonderful!!!
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 | Philipp Matuschka (MMB) 12/7/2010 7:22:26 AM And also in Documents.
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 | Kirill Bondar 12/7/2010 8:21:18 AM @Nathan
> Filters on custom buttons
This is merely a bug, will be fixed with the next update
> References to columns in email notifications
Do you mean message bodies?
> if these references were tracked and reported in the column Usage list
Usage is tracked in email message bodies. In custom buttons it is not reported due to the same bug.
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| Kirill Bondar 12/7/2010 8:23:32 AM @Philipp
Here support for old DOC format pushes us back as we can not parse the document on server - we simply store it as is and all the work is done on client. Though, for DOCX, while a bit cumbersome, it is possible.
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 | Liquid Rapid 12/7/2010 11:50:42 AM Hi Kirill,
>This is merely a bug, will be fixed with the next update
Great. Glad to hear it!
>Do you mean message bodies?
>Usage is tracked in email message bodies. In custom buttons it is not reported due to the same bug.
Yeah, message bodies. I don't think I use the "E-mail Notifications" objects anywhere, so I don't know about them. I use the workflow "E-mail Alert" actions. I've just checked the Usage list in a couple places, and I see that you're right - I do see my email alerts in the Usage list when they reference a column. That's great.
But if I change the name of that column, the reference is not updated. I just tested that to confirm. This has caused problems in my apps in the past. Like with the Custom Buttons, it wasn't even known that the references had been broken until an incorrect email went out.
I see that it's also possible to add a [Column] syntax into a message body that does not reference an existing column. I tread carefully in email alerts because of that, because I know that if I mistype a column name, I won't get any message that tells me the column could not be found.
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| Philipp Matuschka (MMB) 12/7/2010 3:53:09 PM Hi Kirill. While you say it is possible in DocX, it's not implemented yet is it?
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| Kirill Bondar 12/8/2010 9:50:36 AM @Nathan
1. The bugfix is online, also as a bonus, we now update columns references in subjects and message bodies.
2. TeamDesk does not validate column references in emails - in fact some markup elements also use square brackets syntax - but, to minimize the chance for an error you can use dropdown below the editor to insert column placeholders.
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| Liquid Rapid 12/8/2010 11:33:37 AM Great, that's excellent! And faster than I expected. I tested the updates in both places, and they're working perfectly. That makes things easier for me - thanks very much.
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 | Rick Cogley 12/8/2010 3:39:46 PM Thanks very much, Kirill and team. This makes for much better QC.
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| Kirill Bondar 9/22/2011 7:14:07 AM Set status to In Development: DocX still needs to be processed, otherwise Implemented
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| Kirill Bondar 10/10/2011 9:57:01 AM We are now tracking column usage in DOCX documents.
When you upload the template we parse it on the fly and store field information we need for tracking in the database. As parsing process is too complex to perform it on a database level, existing documents are not tracked automatically. To start tracking, please make **any change** in the app.
Once tracking info is cached, we'll update all relevant master placeholders when the column in table is renamed.
With details the situation is a bit more complicated. Detail column is identified via relationship info plus column name. While column names are unique, relationship info is not. Before we enable updating detail columns' placeholders we have to make sure that we won't update what we should not.
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| Kirill Bondar 11/14/2011 8:02:44 AM Now with full support for detail columns' renamings.
The task was a bit challenging and to unify master and detail column processing we have to change some internal structures used to track column dependencies. As the result, dependency caches already stored in the database were reset. Save your app once to update the cache.
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| Liquid Rapid 11/14/2011 3:01:09 PM Thanks for the update! If I want to update the cache in my apps, how do I do that? In the Labs section?
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| Kirill Bondar 11/14/2011 3:52:15 PM The document should be in DOCX format - binary .DOCs are not tracked at all.
All you need is to make any change in the app (say, application name) - this will trigger scanning all the documents in your application and storing placeholder info in the database if it is not already there. Once the info is in DB, columns' usage section will report documents the column is used in. Also, column's name change will trigger the update of placeholder in all relevant documents.
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| Liquid Rapid 11/14/2011 4:02:54 PM Nice! I'll do that. Thanks!
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| Philipp Matuschka (MMB) 1/11/2012 8:48:41 AM Haven't tried it yet but sounds excellent. Thank you very much
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