I would love to have some back/forward navigation buttons that move you back/forth between the panel states/masters you recently viewed to simplify navigation around the various dynamic panels/masters that make up prototypes.

For example, the following is not terribly uncommon:
* Start at top page
* Double-click a master on that page
* From that master, double-click a dynamic panel & choose a state.
* In the panel state, click on the master in that state.

Now, once I have done that, getting back to the original master or to the dynamic panel state requires starting over from the top.

I'd love to just be able to hit "Back" once to get to the dynamic panel state or twice to get back to the original master.

Hope that makes sense.

Firstly, a big thank you for being so open to suggestions!

Would it be possible to bring the raise event element of masters and make that available on pages?

It would be good to be able to have in addition to the onpageload a custom event, that for example I could raise from a button press. This would save having to write multiple cases, making management easier.

victor:

paul turner:

2. FACILITY FOR STRIPPING GENERATED DEPRECATED HTML : : Offer a script that will strip deprecated HTML, so that a cascading style sheet (CSS) can be applied.

Hi Paul, thank you for collecting these. Could you describe the process around number 2? What qualifies as deprecated html... the inline styles? Is the CSS applied for the prototype or for production?

Definitely the inline styles - they override any css changes we can add to the resource file and in alot of cases you end up having to strip out styles after the html is generated by hand each time it is generated.

An example: trying to set your own disabled style on an input, or even a focus style.  Because Axure puts style properties in the input tag you are left with no option but to manually remove it.  It would be lovely to be able to actually define css styles inside of Axure and apply them to individual widgets appropriately.  Then you could edit the css in auxre or just edit the css file itself.  The important thing is to be able to assign a css class to the individual widget and not have an inline style put on it.  That would offer great flexibility in the design process, most especially for forms which are nearly always an part integral of the design.

taymond73:

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, I didn't run across it in a search, but it would be lovely to be able to save custom color palates and then load them in a new project.  It is pretty time consuming to have to enter color values each time you need them, or even if you add them to the custom color selections in the color picker widget, you have to change them manually if your color palate changes. It would be great to be able to do this once and then save it, load it when you need it again. 

 Also the ability to save a gradient as part of this.

If I could:
1. Save and load custom color palates
2. Save and load custom gradients
3. Create custom styles that are constructed with css rules and translated to css classes at generation
4. Apply custom (css) styles to individual widgets - and widget states and properties that are allowed via css (ie focus, disabled, background-image, etc)

Adding those features would provide users with a maximum amount of design flexibility.

I haven't read all suggestions so this may be in there or in the software already.

Alt-drag an object to duplicate

Fintan:

Alt-drag an object to duplicate

Hi Fintan, currently Ctrl+drag an object will duplicate it.

My first post...first off I LOVE this tool! Here are a couple of very minor items I would like to see changed/added:

• Tab order fix on Condition Builder dialog 
• OK set to default button on Condition builder dialog
• Add a label/textbox paired control instead of having to drag one of each
• The current method of using a combination of variables and an "OnLoad" event to set the state of a dynamic panel on a target page is very tedious.
• If I set the button text to Cancel, the button label should default to "Cancel Button" if I did not set the label text already.
  

Been Using Axure for about three months now. Love it! You've created a great tool. Thank you!

Here are some thoughts I've collected so far. They are divided into feature requests, future dream requests and bugs.

Feature Requests

• More details in Generation of Specification output
• Would love an option to include more widget details. In particular, font face, size and color for all widgets or, the style details for elements with styles assigned through existing UI
  
• And, sizing dimensions of all widgets
• Generate a style sheet from the styles info in the document

• Would love some Keyboard shortcuts
• Ctrl + PageUp: switches to previous open wireframe (tab)
• Ctrl + PageDown: switches to next open wireframe (tab)
• With Dynamic Panel in focus
• Ctrl+ UpArrow: moves to next panel ABOVE in Dynamic Panel Manager
• Ctrl+ DownArrow: move to next panel BELOW in Dynamic Panel Manager

• New Behaviors
• "Set panel to back" would be a welcome addition

• Rotation
• Ability to rotate widgets would be so great to have.

• Text in widgets
• Please remove or make optional the zoom interaction that happens when you double-click on the text widgets. It's distracting and not really needed. It just shifts your whole UI out of whack.  Would be really nice to make is a user preference. Personally, it drives me a bit loopy.
• Hanging indent for bullets would be really nice
• Ability to promote/demote (indent/outdent) bullets and be able to set their icons at each level with custom icons
• Ability to set margins in Rectangle widget would be nice so text doesn't look pressed against edges
• When selecting a text panel that contains formatted text, it would be nice to click it and start typing have the panel accept the new text but preserve the existing formatting

• F2 toggle
• F2 should toggle editability in a selected text panel. Currently, it will change the state to edit, but hitting it again won't change it back to unedit
• Also, for sitemap, masters and dynamic panels, it would be nice if F2 would toggle editability
• Example: in sitemap, click on page, F2 makes it editable. Hitting F2 again does nothing.

• General
• Better image optimization engine when adding images. The optimized images often are too pixilated
• Ability to save gradient presets to apply and to include the gradient as part of what gets outputted in the specification
• Ability to create styles for any element or widget

• New Rectangle Widget options
• When choosing round bottom, round top, etc… add a choice to display line or not on the squared off side.

• Assigning Interactions to Widget Groups
• Would be nice to create a grouped element and then assign interactions to it rather than just one widget at a time

• Pre-load Prototype
• Would be nice to click a pre-load button when before stepping through HTML prototypes so user can cache all the code. That way the walkthrough will be faster and user won't have to wait for pages to load
• Interaction Case Properties
• Ability to search for a panel in "select panels" and "set panel state to state" dialog
  
• Zoom:
  
• Ability to zoom more than 200%. At least 600% would be great
  

Dream Features

• Drag and Drop Interaction
• It would be really wonderful to add a list of drag actions for iphone designs
• Drag panel to panel to trigger events
• Along with "Show scrollbars as needed, add a "Drag to scroll" option for a dynamic panels
• Drag panel  from x,y  to trigger event
• Drag panel  to x,y to trigger events

• Automatic ChangeLog
• Would be great to be able to set a Version and then have the system summarize all changes since the version and drop them into a changelog page the same way you can paste in an automatically created site map

• Saved Workspaces
• Would be nice if system could remember configuration and placement of  its own application panels (Sitemap, Widgets, Masters, etc)
• Would be nice if application panels could be moved and docked left or right of work area.

• SharePoint integration
• Would be great to store the files in SharePoint and work through the Axure sharing feature with the main file hosted in SharePoint

Bugs

• Bugs
• Creating Specification
• When you check or uncheck "do not scale footnotes with screenshot" the  footnotes near the top edge of screenshots get cut off when system creates the embedded image to include in the word specification… system  needs to add empty border to top of all images

• Focus issues
• I've run into several instances where an item has focus visually (highlight) but the keyboard actions don't affect it until it is clicked again to get explicit focus
• To recreate:
• Click on page in sitemap, it highlights blue
• Then, promote or demote it, it remains blue
• Then, hit F2. It does nothing even though its still highlighted. You have to click it again to give it focus so you can edit it

- support of the enter key to confirm input

- more control over tabbing via keyboard, by allowing to set the tab index for widgets

- easier management of custom styles

- functionality to allow a prototype to use an external JavaScript files

- improvements in speed of the HTML prototype

- allow to set background images on pages

- improved library functionality to make them work similarly to masters, meaning, if a library item is used on a number of pages and the library item is edite/updated, it will be updated on all the pages it is used on

- Page layer panel: this should allow a user to set any object on a page visible/invisible and hence make it easier for users to update pages with many dynamic panels, masters etc. which might be placed on top of each other 

sinon:

- Page layer panel: this should allow a user to set any object on a page visible/invisible and hence make it easier for users to update pages with many dynamic panels, masters etc. which might be placed on top of each other 

Hi sinon, thanks for the requests. For the request above, there is a Dynamic Panel Manager (View->Dynamic Panel Manager) that can be used to hide panels from view. It doesn't handle masters or other widgets yet, but it's a start.

I am really addicted to the "Convert to > Master" functionnality.

It would be great however to have the "Convert to > Background Master" functionnality. I.e.: Create a master that keeps the positionning of the objects and with the "Place in background" option On. This would be a time saver for sure. 

I agree, Axure is great, but your suggested improvements were practically the first things that I noticed in the interface. Is there any release schedule to make improvements on these areas? It would effectively half the prototyping time cycle and send you guys really far ahead of competition.

Simple example, what if I use a modal screen for login? It's z-axis index would naturally be on top of all else. Effectively making it impossible to intuitively select other objects once you put it in.

Passing global variables seems to work only within certain frames. Isn't it possible somehow to set a variable to be really global?

On another suggestion for improvement: I can't seem to find a way to select threads of replies, though they seem to be grouped or linked. Currently, I have no clue if this suggestion has any direct answers? I can only view the complete thread. The only hint of message location I get is the URL http://axure.com/cs/forums/post/3276.aspx and this line of text here Loren Baxter wrote the following post at 09-05-2008 10:23 PM