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# Apps Development Suggestions
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The goal is to gather some suggestions and forward them to iX-Systems.
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For easy reference the priorities are linked to a future release for reference purposes and should be read as "The following release or earlier".
When given a priority the following is taken into account:
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- The amount of complaints about something
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- How invasive the change is, most likely, going to be vs. the time till the aimed release.
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- If there are any TrueCharts features that are currently "on-hold" or struggling, due to the lack of a certain feature
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- The added value a feature is going to have for TrueNAS SCALE
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### Priority: Medium/U1
##### GUI suggestions
- Use all screen on install / edit app, not just a sidebar. [NAS-110183 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-110183 )
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- Allow changing colors (yellow/gold default) of catalogs/trains boxes in the available/installed apps tabs, to be easier to distinguish between catalog/train. [NAS-112065 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112065 )
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- Add option for separators and whitespace in questions.yaml [NAS-110750 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-110750 )
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- Allow fields of type `text` in questions.yaml, instead of just `string` [NAS-112061 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112061 )
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- Add more bulk options, like bulk upgrade and restart. [NAS-112055 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112055 )
- Allow showing 1 or more default entries when creating a list (instead of an empty list)[NAS-109761](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-109761)
- Allow multiple Containers to all consume the same intel GPU [NAS-112058 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112058 )
- Add ability to group apps. [NAS-112070 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112070 )
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##### Backend suggestions
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- Add ability to save and restore a PVC backup even on app delete [NAS-112066 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112066 )
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### Priority: Low/Post-U1
##### GUI suggestions
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- Fix some of the themes to work with apps section. [NAS-112069 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112069 )
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- Add sorting options in app catalog. [NAS-112067 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112067 )
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- Show statistics per app (cpu / network / ram) [NAS-112071 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112071 )
- Validate regex defined in questions.yaml when focus leaves input field. [NAS-112072 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112072 )
- Set custom message to display when `valid_chars` is not matched. [NAS-112073 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112073 )
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- Make timezone searchable and sorted in Scale Apps installation [NAS-109524 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-109524 )
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- Show App service internal DNS names in App Overview [NAS-112063 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112063 )
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##### Backend suggestions
- Allow `show_if` and `show_subquestions_if` to to use values for evaluation from parent variables [NAS-110751 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-110751 )
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### Priority: Most likely not possible/feasable
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- Add ability to set which app will start on boot (Auto start) [NAS-112076 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112076 )
- Add ability to set a delay before an app starts on boot (Delayed auto start) [NAS-112077 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112077 )
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- Allow to auto update Apps [NAS-112056 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112056 )
- Add a feature to allow App creators to show a dropdown listing other Apps to connect to [NAS-112064 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112064 )
- Mount the PVC dataset to the host [NAS-112078 ](https://jira.ixsystems.com/browse/NAS-112078 )
