Business Process Activities

Allow Formulas to be called from other Formulas. Pass parameters to these formulas and get the result back into the calling formula.

It would be great to have intellisense when coding formulas. Let's take Visual Studio as a great target :)

Allow formulas to be executed on the retrieve & retrievemultiple messages

It would be verify useful to have a description/comments/documentation field that is at the top of a formula.  With many formulas that are being worked on by different team members, knowing the goal, reason, description and/or documentation of what the North52 formula is doing would be great to have.

It would be very helpful if the Syntax Check validation functionality was: 1. Function aware i.e. validates that all required parameters exists 2. Did not include ' and ( ) in comments 3. Positions the cursor where the first failure occurs and/or says which line the error occured

Perhaps this already exists in some form I haven't yet figured out, but it would be great to be able to either wrap a formula with a try/catch (or in Excel syntax an IFERROR function).

This could allow additional logic to take place if formulas/plugins/workflows throw exceptions, or at minimum present a more user friendly error message than "...there was an error in North 52..."

Even if it were a separate field on the formula entity such as "Friendly Error Message" or similar. Ideally you could even configure this with multiple languages with the right language error message provided to the user based on their language (similar to how Portals does that fit Titles, etc)

If I've missed something existing please let me know

I think it would be very helpful to be able to trigger North52 formulas on the creation of a new plugin trace log. Unfortunately Dynamics does not allow workflows to be triggered on this entity.

I know there's N52 Trace but I would use this more for exceptions being caused by Workflows, plugins and N52 formulas. Not just trace logs from N52 formulas. 

 

It would be great if we could see the dependencies of a formula on the formula page.  This is probably more handy with the Process Genie's but would be nice to see where the formula is used throughout the system.