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"Every day there are little things in software that we find annoying. Some write books about it, like Annoyances.org, but I thought this site would be more constructive.
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When I fill in forms for my company, I should be able to find each one (just like I do a Microsoft Word doc I created).
I understand that a Form is not a file stored in a Document Library like other Office docs, but I do think you could hack something so it could be surfaced.
When I navigate to https://forms.microsoft.com I see all the Microsoft Teams. Even ones, with no Forms in them, or which have been inactive forever. That’s a lot of visual noise.
Moreover, the Teams seem to be randomly ordered. It would be nice if they were ordered by last updated by default and we could choose a different ordering (e.g. Alphabetical) if we wanted.
Help me be able to find the team easier by
In Visa Insights, I see a bunch of client emails in grey, but it would be good to know whether they are in Dynamics 365 or not.
I want to see a little indicator next to the external collaborators if they are in Dynamics 365 e.g. an emoji or a Dynamics 365 icon
When I create a Microsoft Form from a template, I must follow an arduous process to get the Form into the right team so we can track the data.
First, it goes into my personal teams, then I must move it to a team, then I need to add it to a tab, then I must move the excel file to the folder I want!
Instead, there should be an option to choose which team and folder the form goes in.
See this video for the current steps, I’m proposing that most of these steps should be automated:
When I look at Microsoft Viva Insights, I can see the people I communicate most with, but not whether it’s going up or down over time.
I want to see the trend so I know who I should spend some more time with.
It should show how far up or down someone has moved, similar to a leaderboard.
When I look at Microsoft Viva Insights, I can see the people I communicate most with, but not whether it’s going up or down over time.
I want to see the trend so I know who I should spend some more time with.
When you drill down into someone’s communication habits we should see 3 spark lines
I think this would be affecting every Microsoft Forms customer who reads the results.
When I look at results on the Microsoft Form, they can be ordered alphabetically, or by user, or by date filled. However, I cannot order them by the order I wrote the original questions in.
Therefore, I currently solve this by prefixing every question with a number, so it orders by the number.
Instead, there should be an option to sort by the order of the options (and it should be the default order).
When it comes to software, user experience is paramount. One area that could benefit from improvement is the way we handle ‘My Access’ approvals.
Current Experience
When someone requests access, the recipient gets a detailed email with a neat table. This table clearly shows who requested what access and their reasons for doing so.
Room for Improvement
However, when it comes to approval notifications, the details are missing. The recipient only knows that the access was approved but doesn’t see who approved it or why. To find this information, they have to click a link and navigate through the history to locate the specific approval.
Suggestion
It would significantly enhance the user experience if the approval email could directly provide these details, similar to the access request email. This change would offer users a consistent experience, reduce the number of steps to find information, and increase overall efficiency.
TinaCMS is awesome and has the best editor. It can be used on a public site like www.ssw.com.au where the users are known and will be added to the database.
However for a public site like SSW Rules www.ssw.com.au/rules where users are _any_ github users, then the problem is each user needs to be added to the database _before_ they can make any changes.
FYI – TinaCMS also has the issue of not allowing GitHub users to directly contribute to the content repo like what NetlifyCMS and Keystatic allow. This means no more GitHub green squares!!
Note: Similar products such as NetlifyCMS (aka DecapCMS now) do not have this limitation, nor does Keystatic.
The Approvals app is great for simple scenarios like purchase approvals and event attendance approvals.
There is a problem with more complex approvals. Say you need approvals from 2 out of 5 designated people, then validation stops this from being done.
The current validation does not allow the same person to be in multiple approver groups. This validation should be removed.
There are other solutions that allow this such as www.KissFlow.com and www.integrify.com
Suggestion:
The Microsoft Teams Approvals App should allow the same individual user to appear in multiple approver groups.
This modification would give the flexibility to allow more complex approval scenarios.