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Open document subtitles: option to use subtitle from active detail

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  • August 12, 2026
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The subtitles for open documents are great (Release notes Thinkwise Platform 2026.2.12 | Thinkwise Community), however there are some exceptions where you want to use the subtitle of the active detail (one level down) instead of the document itself. 

Most menu items in the SF are a good example for this. For instance in the Functionality screen you don’t want to show the branch name as subtitle, but you want to show the control procedure name. I am guessing this is the reason the subtitles are currently disabled for the SF.

Therefor I would like a setting on the subject (+variant) level so that you can mark that subject to use subtitles of the active detail instead of the subject itself.  

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  • August 12, 2026

Additionally we would want to be able to turn off subtitles for a specific subject.


Arie V
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  • August 21, 2026
Updated idea statusNewOpen

Arie V
Community Manager
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  • August 21, 2026

You're right about why it is disabled in the Software Factory. Note that we're not inclined to introduce the requested settings on Subject level.

  • For the request to show Detail information, we could consider to apply this in the UI if no PK and no Lookup display column is received from the Main subject. Alternatively you might be able to come up with some creative logic from your side to tackle this issue.
  • For the request to disable on specific subjects, could you give examples when you explicitly want this? It's something you should be able to do already using custom.css if really needed.
    • One idea that is lingering internally is introducing 3 options in the Menu settings. Instead of Always/Never, also include an option ‘Duplicate only’ in which case the Display lookup column would only be added if a Subject is opened for a second time.