Idea - Show Forge Application Version

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Carlos Henriques

Show Forge Application Version

On our Radar

Lifetime

Service Studio and Service Center should show the Forge application version.

If I install an application from Forge, the version should be visible in Service Studio and Service Center. This way we can easilly compare the version we have installed with the latest versions from Forge.

In Service Studio it could be visible in the apllication screen (see attached print screen)

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04 May 2015

Jorge Martins

MVP

Components and applications that come with the platform all have the platform version they belong to as part of their Description, so it is quite simple to determine just by glancing the Application/eSpace list whether they are outdated or not.

A somewhat similar pattern could be used to the Forge components, as the component Version is part of the meta-data provided by the developer when making those components available in the Forge.

Merged from 'Show version of Forge components/applications installed in environment' (idea created on 2017-07-13 09:19:36 by Jorge Martins), on 2017-07-14 14:13:12 by Carlos Alfaro

13 Jul 2017

Justin James

MVP

When you download a component from the Forge, the version information from the Forge should show in Service Center, so you know if you should update or not.

J.Ja

Merged from 'Forge version info should show in Service Center' (idea created on 2016-05-22 14:32:13 by Justin James), on 2017-07-14 14:13:49 by Carlos Alfaro

22 May 2016

Ouen Worth

The forge version should also be displayed in lifetime.

Merged from 'Forge version info should show in Service Center' (idea created on 2016-05-22 14:32:13 by Justin James), on 2017-07-14 14:13:49 by Carlos Alfaro

26 May 2016

Alfaro

MVP

Merged this idea with 'Forge version info should show in Service Center' (created on 2016-05-22 14:32:13 by Justin James)

14 Jul 2017

João Bento

Staff

Merged this idea with 'Stronger versioning of applications' (created on 04 Jul 2018 10:02:55 by João Almeida)

23 Nov 2018

João Almeida

Champion

The versions of a component in Forge basically are only useful in the site itself, as soon as the item is downloaded you easily loose track of the current version, and there's no way to check that in Service Center also.

A similar scenario is when you move an application from a "lifetime to another", where you loose track of the version in a similar way.

Ideally when a componente is uploaded the Lifetime version would be the same as the forge component, or as an alternative things could be separated into Build Number (that would be managed by the Lifetime model) and Version Number (that would be managed manually by the developer and would even be saved inside the oap files).

This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Stronger versioning of applications' (created on 04 Jul 2018 by João Almeida)
- merged to idea 'Show Forge Application Version' on 23 Nov 2018 11:16:45 by João Bento

04 Jul 2018

Justin James

MVP

There are a number of similar ideas in the Forge around this.

J.Ja

05 Jul 2018

João Almeida

Champion

True, like this one: https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/1969/Show+Forge+Application+Version). My idea is slightly different, is not showing the Forge version in service studio/service but have a better tagging and versioning in Lifetime, so in the end we would discard the Forge version completely as it would use the one from the application.

05 Jul 2018

Stoyan Garbatov

Staff

Changed the category to

Community Forge

09 Jul 2018

Tiago Bernardo

Champion

The current, manual, solution that I have found for this situation is for myself to go to LifeTime and tag that application with the same version number that the application component has in the Forge.

Indeed, coming up with an automatically solution for this would definitely help.

Tiago Bernardo

20 Jul 2018

João Bento

Staff

Changed the status to

On our radar

Hi João,

Sorry for the later reply. We've been discussing it internally and we are aligned with you! We also prefer to see the forge component version in the LifeTime. By now you have to do it manually but let's see how LifeTime evolves in terms of version management to support this use case.

Probably makes sense to merge ideas related to this one.

Thanks

23 Nov 2018

João Bento

Staff

Changed the category to

Lifetime

23 Nov 2018

Vasco Pessanha

Merged this idea with 'Forge component version in my environment' (created on 03 Jan 2019 15:18:11 by Marcelo Ferreira)

07 Jan 2019

Marcelo Ferreira

I would like to know which version of a forge component I have installed in my environment. This should be easy because of the new functionality that informs when a new version is available you should be keeping the version of the one installed somewhere.

This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Forge component version in my environment' (created on 03 Jan 2019 by Marcelo Ferreira)
- merged to idea 'Show Forge Application Version' on 07 Jan 2019 11:25:55 by Vasco Pessanha

03 Jan 2019

Ricardo Reis

Hi Marcelo,

Where do you think that information should be? In the Forge tab, or in the Application List tab?

Cheers!

03 Jan 2019

Marcelo Ferreira

For me is enough on the forge tab since in my case I would use it when deciding to update a component or not. But maybe other people can see other use cases.

03 Jan 2019

Ana de Melo Sequeira

Changed the category to

Community Forge

04 Jan 2019

Vasco Pessanha

Hey Marcelo,

Where were you expecting to see the version of the component and why do you need that information?

Cheers,

04 Jan 2019

Marcelo Ferreira

Hi Vasco,

I missed this on the forge tab in cases I'm trying to update the component and it fails (ex: ECT Server Connector is not compatible with your platform version.). Before forcing it to install I would like to know this information to make informed decision.

Knowing that I have version 4.0.0+ would also be nice. for example I change Document Forge component and the error I get is this "By installing Documents you are going to impact" but doesn't informed me I have a custom version

Regards

04 Jan 2019

Roman

I think this is absolutely necessary. Actually, surprised it's not there yet.

23 Jan 2019

Rean Lubbe

Having much the same issue - I would ideally like to see it in Service Center in the applications tab. It need not necessarily be on the applications list, although that would be convenient - application detail would be fine (Application_Edit.aspx)

11 Feb 2019

Vasco Pessanha

Merged this idea with 'Forge Components - Service Studio versions' (created on 08 Aug 2019 09:55:30 by José Fábio Vieira)

30 Dec 2019

José Fábio Vieira

Staff

Hello all,

Whenever Service Studio shows the "Forge Updates" it shows the "Forge Version" Could we add the current installed "Forge Version" on the application details? Most of the times we don't understand which version is installed

Thanks in advance,

Fábio

This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Forge Components - Service Studio versions' (created on 08 Aug 2019 by José Fábio Vieira)
- merged to idea 'Show Forge Application Version' on 30 Dec 2019 14:57:05 by Vasco Pessanha

08 Aug 2019

Magda Pereira

Changed the category to

Service Studio

14 Aug 2019

José Ventura

Staff

This is so important! Should be basic information already being showed.

To check the version from 5 mobile plugins I need to download 5 components from the forge, merge each component Espaces, find the correct version by getting a perfect merge match, and then repeat the process - download & merge - for the component failing the first step.

Painfull and time-consuming...

The same info should be shown in Service Center.

09 Oct 2019