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Hi,

I'm working with Wabit again and I found some things that could be done better I think:

Order Database connections in alphabetical order (not case sensetive as it is now)

Make list of database connections searchable so I can enter 'T' and the list scrolls down to connections starting with 'T'

Add Menu item for database connection manager (right now I have to do a right click on the project

Add menu item to check for newer version

If you close Wabit out of a project, Wabit opens the last project when you start it again. If you work on a query that takes a while to load, Wabit also takes a while to start up. Maybe you can make the Wabit window appear before running a report/query so the user sees whhere the waiting time comes from an doesn't think Wabit is so slow.

I might be adding more to this thread whenever I can think of anything.
Benjamin

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks for bringing up some of the parts Wabit is currently missing.

Order Database connections in alphabetical order (not case sensetive as it is now)

This has been fixed and will be in the next release. It is also available in our continuous integration builds.

Make list of database connections searchable so I can enter 'T' and the list scrolls down to connections starting with 'T'

Add Menu item for database connection manager (right now I have to do a right click on the project

Add menu item to check for newer version

These are all good suggestions and are things that are missing from Wabit that our other products have.

If you close Wabit out of a project, Wabit opens the last project when you start it again. If you work on a query that takes a while to load, Wabit also takes a while to start up. Maybe you can make the Wabit window appear before running a report/query so the user sees whhere the waiting time comes from an doesn't think Wabit is so slow.

I think this issue is a couple of problems in one. The first big problem is that there is no feedback that Wabit is starting. This problem also exists when loading a project from the welcome screen and would be solved with a loading progress bar.
The second issue is that Wabit does connect to a database when it loads up. Relocating when Wabit first connects to a database will help make the loading easier.
The last problem that actually exists on the report page that should be avoided when trying to make Wabit start up faster. If you load a project that opens on a report screen sometimes the report will not show because we painted the screen too early. Moving away and back to the report brings the report up normally but it surprises users and makes it look like Wabit didn't save the report layout.

Thanks again for the bugs and features,

Thomas

Thanks for your quick reply, I have some more, this time mainly the reporting funtions

It would be nice if you could delete a guide by right clicking on it in the list, not just in the report

When I align columns, it affects only the content, not the header

When I group values (maybe to group would be better than break) I can only display subtotals, not AVG, MIN, MAX, i think this would be very helpful for some reports

Is it already possbile to hide a column in a report? This way i could create one query for several reports but only show the columns I want to see

I'm sure I'll find more once my Wabit works again. I think I made it crash using a query in a report (where another query was used already) before the query completely run for the first time.

Hi Benjamin,

We've added your suggestions to the issue tracker on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/wabit/issues/list. Let us know if you have any more ideas.

Thomas

Hi,

Is it possible that you currently can't show the cubes of more than 1 Catalog whenever you are connected to an xml/a source?
I set my Mondrian server up to have to catalogs, When I connect to it in Wabit it shows me one of them with the cubes + the name of the second one, but without any cubes, just the name of it.

Benjamin