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C. Lousberg
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    C. Lousberg

I would like to have more control over the way details open, specifically from a detail tile. I would like it to open as a floating screen for instance. Having the screen been modal (thus preventing the user from navigating away) would also be a great feature to have.

In my case the users have a touchscreen interface so using the ‘alt’+click shortcut is not an option and is also not something I want to make the responsibility of the user.

So far I’ve got two workarounds but neither are very elegant:

  • Using ‘empty’ tasks instead of detail tiles and having them open the detail in a process flow, but this leads to clutter in the tasks and makes adding tiles a hassle, also it defeats the purpose of the tiles and leads to a disconnect in the styling of the icons for instance
  • using a process flow to close the initial window and reopen it as a floating window, this is sluggish and also unnecessarily complex

I would prefer to be able to do this in a simpler and faster manner, so far the following places where I would expect such a setting to be located are as follows, from likely to less likely:

  • Handling the opening style within a single process action, for instance on the ‘zoom in on detail’ action type
  • Specifying within the subject or subject variant
  • Specifying for a reference
  • Specifying for a screen type
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Jasper
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  • October 28, 2020
Updated idea status NewOpen

Erik Brink
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  • May 1, 2025

Universal GUI version 2025.1.13.0 together with platform version 2025.1 now offers support for the “zoomed detail” process action to open as a modal or floating popup.

You can read more about that in the release notes.

This Universal GUI will officially be released on the 12th of May 2025.

This brings this idea a little further to a solution, but not entirely. When the zoomed detail is a starting action of the process flow, you can set the new input parameter, but because it is the starter of the flow the flow starts after executing the action. By that, it is opened as a document already, instead of a modal popup. So we have to consider our options here a little more.

Working with a dummy task tile is still a fine alternative for now.


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