There's another feature that we just started implementing, which is partial updates of documents. It doesn't require the entire object to update, but updating documents across applications becomes difficult because you have to pull the entire document, which means you have to support the entire model to update it. So, that application has to know about every single parameter that may or may not have been added because if it reads and writes the document again, you'll lose data elements. An improvement would be a more robust functionality around updating elements on a document, or some type of procedural updates that don't require pulling the entire document. Otherwise, you have to keep all of your apps up to date with the models, and that can be cumbersome and lead to errors. Usually, you don't always remember, and then it leads to some type of bug, but you won't realize why. You'll lose some value because you don't realize that you have some application that doesn't run often. You forget that it writes to that same document and you didn't update the model. It would be nice to have some type of functionality for less common updating applications and to not always have to worry about keeping that model up to date. There's some integration with Entity Framework and it's nice, but it's not robust and it would be good to have something like that when it comes to pulling data. Occasionally, you have to query the database for values because we save our appointments and we don't have an index on appointments. We don't have a manual lookup for appointments, so we don't save it in another file. We have to run a query to get appointments that occur on a specific day and the downside of that is you have to use strings just to hardcode the string values. It would be nice to more easily integrate with a tool like Entity Framework, and I know that they do, but it's not an easy process. It would be nice to have an easier way without relying on text to query the database.
