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  • April 2, 2024
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tiago
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A use case that happens ins many cases is where you have the grid with a detail tab with the form and other elements. 

For the user It's quite cumbersome to be going back and forth every time he wants to see the details of a couple of items in a row. 

I really miss the previous and next navigation buttons in the detail, where you can jump easily to the next or previous item in the context without the need to go back.

 

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Mark Jongeling
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  • April 4, 2024
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Xavier de Bondt
Sidekick

@Mark Jongeling 
This type of navigation with the arrows, is one of the main features we are still missing to upgrade from the Windows GUI to the Universal GUI, for one of our older applications.
 

The navigation arrows, as known in the Windows GUI

Specifically the 
Go to next row in form /
Go to previous row in form
as described in Basics in the Windows user interface | Thinkwise Documentation (to ensure we are talking about the same action).

Is this something we can expect soon? Or is this something that can has to be achieved with ‘Go to next row’ and ‘Go to previous row’ connectors as described in Process flow actions | Thinkwise Documentation in a piece of dynamic code?
It seems like this would be a core piece for both applications in Universal and also the Software Factory.
 


Harm Horstman
Superhero
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Would it be possible to add the navigation buttons (First/Previous/Next/Last), similar to how they were available in the Windows UI, as built-in actions in the Custom Action Bar configuration tab? This will save a lot of time on building tasks, process flows and logic.


Xavier de Bondt
Sidekick

Created a ticket (#15913R) in TCP for this.


Arie V
Community Manager
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  • Community Manager
  • September 14, 2026

I’m curious about this one:

  • For how many Subjects is this functionality actually used in your applications?
  • Have some of you already implemented the ‘workaround’ of 2 Tasks with a small Process flow to trigger the ‘Go to previous/next row’ Process action?

Given the relative low number of votes and the fact that it is not pushed on that much so far, I am inclined to think that offering the ‘workaround’ as a Thinkstore solution could be a sufficient solution here. What do you honestly think?