In the service studio you can see all the applications in one overview. These can be forge applications and own applications. These are ordered in alpabetical order. If you have a lot applications this is very unclear. It would be nice to have the ability to structure these applications in groups like you can do with the apps on a smartphone. 

It would be nice if you could define groups for applications.

When the license has many applications and many forge components installed, it is very difficult to associate which project the application or component belongs to. With the application group it would be easier to organize the studio. Thus we would have a more oriented view, being able to better understand which project the application belongs to.

Hi Guilherme 

There is already one idea like this. 

https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/4741/Keep+Service+Studio+organised

Please support that ideia with one more like.

Proper naming convention for applications and modules  does help

For better visualisation and management, It'll be nice if we can group applications in Service Studio. Having this, Environment landing page in Service Studio will show better and nicely managed grouped applications. 

Search of applications should show application name ir/respective of groups.

Hi i would like to have a visual way to organize the 200 applications that i may have in the environment.

This is a feature to help organize mostly the development environment since it is the one the developers use to create something.

It can be as folders (since folders fix everything) or another way. The thing is we have a lot of applications that have general modules that can be used in other applications and then there is the trash applications that are used for developing purposes only and testing things and then there is the Main applications that have like 4 ou 5 applications for each real application.

So something like: 

1. Folder "XPTO" open > 5 applications (XPTO_A, XPTO_B...)
2. Folder "Trash" open > 20 applications
3. Folder "Forge Components" open > 100 applications
4. Folder "Libraries" open > 10 applications
5. Folder "Themes" open > 3 applications
    

Everything is a mess right now so ya, folders will allow for a bit more organization in developing environments.

oh and if you start doing this allow folders inside folders too and filters that search for folders instead of applications only.

Thanks you.

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It would be a great  if we could sort our apps in folders for a better overview.

It would be great if there is an option to create folders in the applications list view of service studio and option to drag and drop applications into the folders. 

One can easily create a folder for an application/ Team and organize all the related applications into it.  These folders can also be linked to Teams and access can be granted to specific users group.

As we know many of our clients develop several applications on the same outsystems server.

On the Application tab of service studio we see a cluster of applications comprising of all plugins as well as our main application.

It would be a great option for developers if we could just group this cluster and view shared seperately.

I know Independent modules and Dynamic Forge component help us organize the architecture, But having such an option on service studio directly would be a great organizing solutions specially in case of applications being developed using the monolithic approach and saving time. Not saying it'll be useless for microservice architecture or DDD. 

When opening service studio, Instead of having an endless list of applications, we could have a more organized way to display the applications.

Some examples below; 

1) Having a category/tab with the list of applications which are libraries. This can be identified based on the references.

2) Being able to manually assign a tag/category per application, and display the list of applications based on those categories.

There are several ways to tackle the list of applications, maybe this can trigger further discussions on how to approach this.

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I would like to create an option in the Service Studio home panel to group applications.

When we have a lot of applications, the panel gets confused when we open it.

We have the option to search, but when we need to switch to more than 10 apps, it becomes difficult work. I lost a lot of productive work when I need to equalize environments.

Service Studio Dashboard option like this on Android:

The user will easily categorize  the applications and there is no more need to scroll through the window in Service Studio.

We have a lot of applications in our Environment and it could be really helpful if the Applications can be ordered like the Start menu in Windows 10 or something similar. 

Like this One. We can categorize Applications based on Custom Headers.

Then we can also Rename the Headers or description for that certain group of applications.

This can help with Navigating Applications based on how they are set and not just being sorted alphabetically. 

hopefully something like this 

I like this idea. 

It would be great to have the ability to further group applications and modules. 

We have multiple library modules which allow our applications to interface with our own software. It would be great to categories these per software product, for example. 

Yeah, this is a great idea!

Very good idea.

An organised developer is a productive developer!

Hey Kyle,

Isn't this similar to this idea?

https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/5778/Add+folders+to+Service+Studio+main+screen?_ts=1541757548031

Cheers,

Although is very easy to search application on service studio it will be great if we could organize them better as the idea presented above. 

Also, perhaps having the ability to filter out some applications will be very useful. There are many apps built by different teams within a company and they add clutter to the developers' view that may only care about the apps they are responsible for. 

The two features that could elevete the organization of the apps in the service studio could be the below:

Tags: allow the creation and use of tags so applications can be tagged with various tags.

Filters: allow for customizing the view by applying filters to include or exclude apps and tags.

I echo kyle flo's comment and like that idea. Innovating in Insurance said it very well: An organised developer is a productive developer! :) 

I'm watching Outsystems courses and my development environment is getting full of applications developed as training. I would like to suggest the idea of allowing these applications to be grouped in folders in order to better organize the environment ... for example by grouping the exercises performed in a folder.

Hi guys,

The idea would be to define layers in Service Studio, a little bit of what Discovery does but probably simpler.

Also, it should be possible to group applications (for example by project).

Thanks,

Pedro

Pedro -

Agree with both of these! But... this is actually two separate Ideas, so it makes a bit of a management issue around the Ideas ("did someone 'like' the first Idea or the second?" for example). And the second Idea in here already exists (which is good!). I won't merge them, but in the future please make sure to put separate Ideas separately... it's also good for you because it is more community points! :D

J.Ja

Hi Justin,

Thanks for the feedback, I noticed now that there is another idea about group applications however my main idea is the layers but it would be nice to be able to group the applications per column:

I hope it helps to understand the idea.

Thanks,
Pedro

It would be handy if it was possible to group module types together within an application by placing them in folders.  For example you might want to place all the UI modules in one folder, the core data models in another, test ones another, etc.

I know that what I'm requesting can be accomplished some by using Teams and Roles. In our organization, with multiple teams and sub-teams using Teams/Roles could quickly become hard to maintain. We'd like the users in Service Studio to be able to control their development environment to some degree.

My request is similar to this one, but my idea accomplishes a similar result in a different way: https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/6422/add-favorite-modules-in-service-studio?IsFromAdvancedSearch=True

Divide the main window in Service Studio where all the environment's application in to two sections, Favorites (1) and Applications (2). Allow users to collapse the applications listed under each of the two section to "tidy up" the view.

Users can select the application and mark it as a favorite in a couple possible ways, right click the app icon and select Favorite, this moves the application to the favorites section of the application list screen. Or, if the user already has the application open, create a button to mark the application as a Favorite.

Here are some quick and dirty mock-ups to hopefully help elaborate on what I mean.

Outsystems could let us organize the service studio by subject into folders. I want to organize my applications into files by subject and type.

I would go even further.

I would like to see/filter out forge-components.

Hi, i have one idea which gonna make more organize the applications on outsystems enviroments, which is Folders.

Folders can would be organize by category.and we can move applications to that folders. 

Folders can have a system of random color systems to the folder.or make a preview which applications have into that folder.

Hello

I have so many Sample Applications, A lot of Forge Assets, and applications on my Service Studio home screen, sometime it is difficult to look for the application, I know we have search option but, if something like we can sort them by data or by name, and if  we can add them to folder it would be easy to you know group them and open whatever you need.

Hi Tousif,

be sure to check this one out, and like it

similar/same idea

Hi @Dorine Boudry ,

I have Searched for it first, and I have gone through pages and pages but I don't know why it was not there in list maybe I would have missed a keyword, I dont have a option to delete this :(
I think I would have searched more then come to conclusion.

By the way, Thank you for letting me know. 

During all the development I have felt a need of grouping applications. It'd be great if some option of custom categorization is also there. Attached image can better elaborate what I'm thinking of.

All the application icons displayed together can be considered as residing at Home. If a user wants some custom categories to be there, he can in some sort of bar as shown in image.

Simply dragging and dropping an application can move it to a particular group and it should affect only the display of the application in Service Studio, nowhere else. 

This can give a user better display he is currently working with.

Drag-drop to Home icon can move the application to some None/Home category as it was before any grouping.

Categories can be added /removed.

Just a thought ! 

Thanks!!!

Hi @AL☼K ,

this is probably similar to that idea

That's Right Dorine.

That is an old Idea, more than 4 years old !!

It would be very useful if there was the possibility to create folders to be able to organize the applications better on the Applications List.

The ability to make folders in your environment overview, so that you can distribute the applications into different folders.

e.g. 

- Folder for created services used by multiple applications
- Folder for Forge components
- Folder for applications for a specific company departement
- ...

This idea is already suggested 

check

https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/5778/application-list-add-folders/

Consider merging it.

Regards

Service Studio: give the ability to organize the app space by creating folders in which to organize and categorize apps according to their context or according to the developer in charge of them.

Suggestion: Add folders to environment app view.

On the very first page of Service Studio, it'd be nice to be able to sort the large list of apps however I wanted. I'd personally split it by Apps/Forge components, or even by department (in our company's case). 

As it stands, it's very hard to find apps by just looking at it and I have to almost always search on the top left. Seems like a waste of 90% of the screen just by not having that ability built in. 
Here's a rough paint sketch: The first two are folders, and the other apps (uncategorized) would show as normal. 

The search would still find apps in folders and bring them forward, but this way you open up the rest of the screen for actual sorting and organizing.

yes, has been asked before, see this

Nice Idea!

Hi,

In our current development environment, we are actively working on a multitude of applications (more than 100). When we access Service Studio all displayed together. To enhance the management of this sizable application list, I propose the implementation of a folder-based categorization system.

Implementation of this concept involves creating folders within Service Studio. Each folder can be designated for a specific purpose, project, or department. Additionally, a search and filter functionality could be incorporated to quickly locate applications within specific folders.

Before creating an idea it is requested of you to search the idea page of similar ideas.

Only after finding no similar ideas, you should click on 'Yes, my idea is original'.

A quick search on my end immediately shows these:
https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/13209/service-studio-app-list-folders/
https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/13087/service-studio-organize-the-app-space-by-folders/

This idea can be marked as duplicate and merged

I´m starting to work as a Pre Sale in my company and the amount of PoCs, Demos, Libraries, etc. is too big. I´m asking if is posible to create Folders in the environment in order to organice all the aplications and Forge components we create or download in our environments.

Maybe the Idea of folders is old and we need something like groups we use in ours cellphones.

This is a great idea to organize the workstation.

Hey there,

I would like to create folders to group my applications under the same context.

Thanks,

Edgar

Having a dedicated folder for third-party services would significantly enhance our team's efficiency. It would allow everyone to quickly access the necessary services and streamline our workflow.

Great idea! This would significantly improve the organization of our work.

Right now, all the apps listed in the main screen in service studio or ODC studio.

We should have the ability to group some apps under folders in the studio itself.

That way, we can have more readable and organized app's list.