Hi,

My apologies if this has been posted earlier. I did some global searching and could not find something similar.

At several customers the amount of applications is growing very fast and it's not always easy to see what is currently ment as PoC or just there for testing purposes and what's developed as an actual application. Especially when your starting out with an existing environment.

So therefore I think it would be nice to have the possibility to group applications, make something like an additional layer (Categories) to applications. 

These categories can be separate tabs or just Icons on the canvas to open up and see the applications. 

Extend the Move to functionality with moving to categories as well.

At first I don't think these categories are needed to be used/seen in Lifetime (for now), only ment for giving some structure to the application canvas.

Just my 2 cents..;)

Or at the very least have a "quick search" capability so you can just hit J and jump to the applications beginning with J.

Also be nice to be able to display applications as a list or small icons.

The number of tiles is increasing at a high speed when including dependandies.  It becomes pretty cluttered and feels very unorganized..

I would like to be able to group extensions like you can group apps on your iphone. 

Hey Frank,

What do you mean with Application tiles? The modules/espaces/extensions inside an application or the applications themselves?

Can you send a screenshot?

Cheers,

Hi Vasco,

I mean the applications as shown below. Since I 'only got started' I assume the number of applications will increase even more in time. I'd like to group all the applications which I'm only consuming and don't need to edit. Or maybe hide/display them with filter. 

Hey Frank, got it!

There are already 2 related ideas with this one:
- The first one (https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/2691/), is related to help developers find the applications they want to edit (there is actually several ways to do it, some of them mentioned by you). We implemented a new Application List page last Service Studio release that allows you to quickly filter the apps or jump to recent modules.

- The second one (https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/4741/) is still on our radar and it is more related  with having groups of applications and namely mirroring  architecture principles and guidelines.

I think your idea is more related to the second one so I'll merge them (number of likes will also be merged).

Sometimes when i finish to download a plugin from the Forge, because i have a lot of applications and plugins on my environment, i get confused and take a little time to find what i´ve downloaded. It could be of some help to have a button or something to show only what has been downloaded and be able to sort it by Date.

We want an option to filter web and mobile applications on service studio application list like forge list 

I have an idea for the Desktop in Service Studio.  Right now the list in the main body(great improvement with left margin; most recent) sorts the applications in alphabetical order.  When I worked for a customer for several years, we eventually had about 100 to 200 applications in Dev and about half that in the rest.  But a dev is usually working in Dev.  My idea is to create an optional view similar to the canvas view(4 levels of architecture).  Because we use taxonomy to define our application architecture level, why not go ahead and provide a property along with the name of the application  to designate what level of architecture the app is.  This will also motivate developers to think about it as well.  So when picking the "Canvas" sort.  You separate your applications by architecture level.  So there  would be 4 distinct areas in the desktop.  When filtering that by application name, perhaps use the dependencies to determine which applications are related.  I suggest this because when I eventually had 10s of applications to search through, it became a frustration to locate the application quickly.

At the moment I am cleaning up, my PE, and having a hard time recognize which applications are coming from the forge and which are not.

I would like to see a difference, so I can spot easily which are, so I can act upon it far more easily.

It should possible to re-order and declare the "type" of the module according to the 4-layers canvas convention inside the application.

This would help people start following the 4-Layers Canvas more seriously and allow for a quick check of the architecture, just by opening the application.

It should also be possible to apply this to the applications, as most times there is an app that is filled with lib module, other that is core and filled with core modules, etc. And see the canvas explicitly inside the Service Studio

Show the application list in service studio oganized by layers. To work, will be needed add a new property when the application will be created, the definition of layer in 3 layers canvas.

This kind of view, will help to identify what can be reused within a factory when we start a new application. In addition to making it clear to everyone working in this factory how the architecture is assembled, without having to access another application such as discovery or architecture dashboard.

Daily developers will be in contact with information about how the architecture is built, and which are the reusable applications and modules.