Is there a place we can request new feature ideas?

[jaredguerra]

Hello I was wondering if there was somewhere I could request new features? I thought it would be really cool to have a status bar along the bottom. It would inform the user how long is left in their process, how many processes the are running, etc.

[doug]

Hi Jared – This forum is a fine place to make your requests. 🙂

With regard to the status bar idea, the first thing you asked for is “how long is left in their process.” My question to you is how could BP know how long is left in an indeterminate process? If you execute an action there is no way to know in advance how long that action will take, so I’m not sure then how BP could report on “time left” or similar. Am I misunderstanding what you’re describing? The number of running processes, however, is something that can be reported on. We’ll consider this for a future build. Currently we only report that there are active process or that there are not active processes, based on whether or not you see the yellow orb icon/image in the tab header next to the tab name, but we don’t report the actual number of running processes. This is a reasonable idea, so we’ll definitely consider it. Thank you. Were there any other specific thoughts/ideas that you wanted to convey? You said ‘etc’ as if there are other things but that you just didn’t share them because you weren’t sure if this is the right venue or not, so please do let me know.

Thanks,

Doug

[jaredguerra]

I should have been more specific. When I mention time remaining, I mean something like ‘Executed task on x number of host out of x host in grid’. It wouldn’t be a super specific process bar but I think it would be nice to have.

The “etc” was more of a prompt for the batch patch team to add features that may be nice included with the status bar. I cannot say I have more ideas now but it is nice knowing the forum is a welcome place to add my thoughts on potential new features in the future.

Thank you for the quick reply 🙂

[doug]

Thanks for clarifying. We will consider these ideas for a future build. Thank you for your suggestions!

-Doug

[jaredguerra]

Can I suggest being able to color code rows within the same grid? This would be helpful for not wanting to have multiple grids/tabs open when doing customs deployments.

[doug]

Try ‘Actions > Modify category, description, location, notes, color > Modify row color’

[jaredguerra]

As usual Doug, you show me something new and further lock in Batch Patch as my favorite tool!

[blanning]

How about the ability to run SSH commands…that would pull even more of my automation process into Batchpatch…

[doug]

Thanks, blanning. We’ll consider this.

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