App compatibility grid

[Giray]

I would love to see a graphically clean way of looking up all the applications and their compatibility with a version of IPS, especially the latest version to help me decide whether to upgrade. Currently, deciding to upgrade, to for example 4.6, is difficult. I have to either go app by app in my install or go to the Marketplace, go category by category with the version filter and scroll through all the apps until I find, or don't find mine. Developers should have some kind of back-end field where the check off the version(s) of compatibility, and then on the front end, like with all compatibility matrices, you would have an app with checkmarks to the right under each valid version.

If it already exists and I missed it, my bad.

[Adriano Faria]

IPS already provide this in the apps, plugins, themes and translations page of your ACP. You will see an IPDATE AVAILABLE (or something) badge if there is a new version for each resource. 

[Giray]

Thanks Adriano, but that doesn't really address the problem. The way it is set up now, it does say 'Update Available' but only if you are on the 'next' version, in this case 4.6. I'm talking about people who are on 4.5 who want to decide when to upgrade, and in that case, you cannot easily decipher which apps are already compatible with the 'next' version from your own. I hope that makes sense.

[Nathan Explosion]

Easy solution - add the 'Compatibility' field to this section, which is right there in the ACP:

I suggest you request this be moved to the features & suggestion forum, which is where it will be seen by IPS.

 

[Giray]

Silly question: How does IPS like to be 'asked' to move a thread? PM? Other?

Thx.

[Adriano Faria]

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