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1815 Ideas

Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Set language per runtime configurationOpen

When using the Software Factory the language used can only be set on User level. When using the Universal UI and more than one project/application, it is not possible to set a different language for a specific application.For example my local application is in Dutch however my client portal is in English. Currency when I use Universal in development, either my local or client portal has no translations.It would be of great help if I could set a language per runtime configuration instead of just having it on user level  

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Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Jeroen van den BeltAdministrator

Run in-screen enrichments by linking them to tasksOpen

During the presentation on enrichments at the recent Developer event, there was interest in making it possible to link a custom (self-made) enrichment to a task. This is currently not possible, as developers can create enhancements within the SF, but not to the SF itself.With this idea, I aim to explore to what extent there is interest in a mechanism that would make it configurable to link custom enrichments to tasks. This way, you would be able to start an enrichment from within the SF-screen where it is relevant.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Moderator
Erwin EkkelModerator

Customer prefilters add a checkbox to deactivate other (non-locked) prefiltersOpen

I have a lot of custom prefilters in the universal gui that need other prefilters to be set off to show the correct information. It would be great if there was an option to deactivate all other (non-locked) prefilters on one click. My suggestion is to add a checkbox for this setting to custom prefilters. 

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Rookie
Frank GlazenburgRookie

Make current filter values more visible for usersOpen

When a user applies filters only a small icon on the column where the filter is applied notifies the user that a filter is applied. The values of the filter are not clear. This makes it hard for a user to quickly determine if the current filter is the right filter in the list. With a filter values bar this could be made visually very clear for a user and saves user a lot of frustration when they forgot about a filter and can’t find the items they are looking for. An example below from a website. In this example is it very easy for a user the see what the filters values are.  

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Ability to set/show application-wide/global variable in Universal GUIOpen

This idea is based on the following question: It would be great to be able to set an application-wide variable. In my case I’d like to show the relation the user has chosen in a menu task so that the user can always check in what context screens are opened. This means you should be able to set this variable per-user/session. See above question for more context.The screenshot below shows a possible location to show such a variable:In my original question I could think of a few other possible solutions on where to show a ‘global’ variable:Set Breadcrumb everywhere to a fixed variable. Be able to change the username using a variable. Be able to change the task name using a (task)variable. Or, not only for tasks, be able to assign functionality to a menu (item).I’d also like to hear if others managed to come to a solution or workaround for this or other ideas of how this should work!

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Forum|Forum|8 months ago
J. de Lange
Hero
J. de LangeHero

Name and shame the developerOpen

In the Software Factory when merging I’m sometimes confronted with the message that something changed in the target branch. In that message I would absolutely LOVE  to see which developer made the change. 

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Ricky
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Rookie
SijeHarkemaRookie

ARM build of Software FactoryDeclined

The Software Factory is a pretty normal .net app if I’m not mistaken. (If I’m wrong quickly close this topic)While I understand making a build of the SF for macOS is maybe a bit too much, it would be great if we could run the SF in a virtual machine with the ARM version of Windows, that would help performance when trying to develop on an MacBook!I know it depends a lot on the dependencies and the exact build process, but for quite a few applications out there it’s quite trivial to also produce an ARM build of their binary.I think someone said in the future the SF would also run on the universal GUI, but that’s all far out in the future, and this should be a pretty easy fix.

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingAdministrator

Ability to enter reason for setting Control procedure InactiveClosed

When setting Control procedures to the Inactive state, it is not possible to enter a reasoning to why the control procedure has been made Inactive. This may cause confusing to why a certain Control procedure is now inactive.Having a place/field to give in a reasoning can take this confusion away. (Maybe this can be done for all objects that can be inactive such as Unit tests)This field could, for example, then be shown in the Form of the Control procedure screen once the Control procedure is Inactive.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Dennis van Leeuwen
Hero
Dennis van LeeuwenHero

Make Expandable Sections Configurable by Default State in Software FactoryClosed

Since the latest version of the Universal GUI, labels are now presented as expandable/collapsible sections (which I believe are commonly referred to as 'accordions' in React front-end UI/UX design terminology), which is a highly appreciated improvement in terms of usability and user experience 👌🏼.By default, all sections are expanded and visible. When a user clicks on a section label, it collapses to hide the associated fields. In the screenshot, you can see an example where the "Address," "Delivery," "Commercial," "Financial," "Other," and "Info" sections are collapsed, and only the fields under "General" (such as Customer Name, D-U-N-S Number, Type, Customer Number, and Industry) remain visible.💡I would like to propose making it configurable within the SF (Subjects ▸ Components ▸ Form ▸ Group collapsed) whether a screen should open with specific sections expanded or collapsed by default.Specifically: There should be a setting available per section (label) to define its default open or collapsed state. For example, it should be possible to configure that "Address" and "Delivery" are collapsed by default, while the other sections remain expanded when the screen is opened. This enhancement would allow for a more flexible, user-friendly experience and better alignment with specific business processes.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Data driven zoom level & location for MapsOpen

We would like to dynamically set the zoom level of the map per row.Sometimes this would be automatic, but the most ideal would be to be able to link this via a zoom level column, so that we can control this ourselves based on the data.  

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Harm Horstman
Superhero
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Kevin Rosink
Kevin RosinkPartner

Dynamic initial location for the map componentMerged

The initial settings for a map are based on a hard coded latitude longitude coördinate. There is some flexibility because it is possible to overwrite this settings using variants. It would be more flexible if the coördinates can be defined by an expression so I could for example retrieve them based on the user that is currently logged in.Map initial settings 

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Freddy
FreddyThinkwise Local Partner Brasil

Universal GUI - Maps - Automatic Zoom LevelMerged

Hi. How do I create a scenario for automatic zoom level. We are in Brazil so, the default is at level 5 or 6 to get an overview.  But depending on the search I want to automatically zoom to state level or city level. How do I do that? 

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Sidekick
Edwin SaanSidekick

Improve "Database event log" readabilityOpen

As a developer, I want the “Database event log” readability to be improved.At the moment, the queries in those logs are not structured enough:Original topic text:On debugging I use the debug information/pane all the time and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.Really important information in this debug pane is the content of the form parameters and f.e. the task parameters. If these are lookups we can see the ID’s of the related tables there.As far as I can see now there is no way to view this info in the Universal GUI. That’s huge ommission when developing and it holds me back from developing in the Universal GUI. You’re working a kind in the blind… Hopefully I missed something in the documentation (However I’ve searching for about an hour) but this really important information should be visible as debug info in the Universal GUI. I’m a functional developer so I need values of the data being displayed and the underlying ID’s of related tables. In many cases issues in applications are data related!!!!  

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Sidekick
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Set column as optional visible (hide at first use)Open

What:With ‘grid settings‘ a user can (un)hide fields from the grid, however the fields to show in de grid are limited to all fields which were original shown in the grid. With this idea I would like the option to set a grid field in the SF to ‘Optional visible’ (for example in subjects → components → grid → grid type). The GUI should respond to this setting so that a field set to ‘Optional visible’ is not shown in the grid by default, but a user has the option to unhide the field in ‘Grid settings’.Why:By default, we don’t want to too many fields visible in the grid to keep it clean and simple and to prevent the need to horizon scroll. However, for some actions a user might require an extra field in the grid so we want the user to be able to (temporary) add that column to the grid without any effect for other users. Workaround:I know it currently is possible to setup something like this by setting all fields that should be ‘optional visible’ to visible and push a user preference to all users to hide these fields in the grid. The problem of this workaround is that hard to maintain, specially when new users are added in IAM. Best I could come up with is using a column-tag which generates a post synchronisation script for IAM. The downside is that when a new user is added (and not copied from another user) in IAM, he/she doesn’t have the user preferences until the next IAM sync. So having this feature integrated in the platform out-of-the-box would be very welcomed.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Extra column option 'Hide at first use'Merged

Showing a minimum required set of columns at first use in grid views will help the adoption of applications. For this an option like 'Hide column at first use' would be useful. Later on, advanced users can decide to show extra columns, for example trace columns, themselves. As developer I would like this as an extra column grid option (Default Hidden) in SF. Or as 2 additional element values for the Grid Type: 'Regular - Default Hidden' and 'Read Only - Default Hidden' In IAM, application managers should be able to overrule this option and force columns to be hidden at first use.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Sidekick
Edwin SaanSidekick

Multiple System flow schedulesOpen

I the SF you can define multiple schedules for 1 system flow. F.e. 1 runs every day at 00:01 and 1 runs every hour on 04:00.However you’re able to define 2 schedules, only 1 schedule can be active. I would suggest the idea to have multiple schedules active. Of course it’ll need some checks to prevent running them on the same moment, but that should be doable.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Moderator
Erwin EkkelModerator

On creation error ignore also skip the grant select errorClosed

Sometimes when creating a view/function/stored procedure you get an error that you want to ignore during creation (for example when an external view or linked server is not accessible on development and is outside the scope of the branch). Error: 'Invalid object name'You can select ignore error and continue execution. Doing this will give you a 2nd error on the same object: An unknown error occurred while executing 'grant select on "[object]" to public       '. Error: 'Cannot find the object '[object]', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.'.If you have multiple errors you will have to do a lot of skipping times 2. If possible please skip the grant select on the part you are ignoring. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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Captain
PatrickW

Annotate picture in Universal GUIOpen

Currently, we have multiple applications that allow users to add/upload photos using the camera. While this is great, we also want the ability to make annotations (add circles, arrows, lines etc.) after taking a picture.The default functionality available on iOS/Android is perfect; however, in the Universal GUI, the only option is to select 'Use this picture.'

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Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Valentin
Apprentice
ValentinApprentice

HTML embedding for splash screen backgroundOpen

Hello,We are interested in customizing and dynamically displaying specific data on the splash screen (Tile Menu or any other Menus), instead of using a static background image - something akin to embedding HTML code with the Preview screen component as an option besides images.

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Valentin
Apprentice
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
John Lunenburg
Sidekick
John LunenburgSidekick

Promote Columns for Collapsible Sections for Universal GUI FormsOpen

Now that the great new feature Collapsible Sections for Universal GUI Forms have been added to the Universal GUI, I have a further improvement for this feature. It would be great if you could set the visibility for the columns of that section to show the data of the most important columns of that section when it is collapsed.See this below example of another ERP application that has this functionality. When hoovering over the data that application shows the label and the data as a tooltip.Example promoted columns for Collapsed sectionTooltip when hoovering promoted column 

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Geurt
Captain
GeurtCaptain

HTML Editor Feature RestrictionsOpen

I would like the ability to disable certain features in the HTML editor. For example, the option to set a default font and then make the font selection read-only.Currently, our users can format and send emails using the HTML editor. However, in this context, we don't want to give them the option to choose their own font; we want to enforce a standard/default font instead.  It's a bit like this idea, only with more functionality. 

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Jimmy Scheer
Rookie
Jimmy ScheerRookie

Different Rich Text Controls HTML - Limited and RichMerged

It would be great to have two different Richt-Text-Editors for editing text inside de Windows GUI if it relates to HTML styling. In the Windows GUI we now only have one editor as it comes to controlling HTML text. This editor is very rich and can be a problem for setting tooltips in, for example: the tooltip in the resource scheduler component, where HTML is limited and cannot accept all tags that is allowed in HTML. It would be great to have another HTML-editor. Like the component that has been made for the the Universal GUI. In this component HTML is limited and it supports the limited HTML that is supported  for the tooltip(HTML) in the (extended) resource scheduler. In the limited editor only things like: Bold, Italic, Underline or lists are supported.Universal GUI - HTML component(Limited)Windows GUI - HTML component(Rich)

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
K
Sidekick
kenterweemeSidekick

50% opacity call to action buttonOpen

During the developer event the new call to action buttons were displayed. These use a 100% opacity of the background colour of the task. In addition to that, I would like an option to use 50% of the opacity of the colour as a secondary call to action button. 

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Bart Metselaar
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
B
Warrior
BramGWarrior

Provide error message in extra column in failed rows export resulting from import wizardCompleted

We frequently use the import wizard to import files into lists. We tend to use a view here with an instead of trigger, so we can resolve lookups through the view, validate the data and automatically map the column names with the import wizard. This all works tremendously well, but we would like to add something extra. If rows fail in the import wizard, you can export them later. Unfortunately, what you can't see is why these rows failed. They are color-coded, but you can't display a textual explanation for them. We would like to be able to use the tsf_send_message to return a message, which is updated with the corresponding row in the export with failed records. This way, an end user can see more clearly what needs to be changed and can then try to re-import the export with failed rows.This is just a possible solution, if there is a better idea to inform a user of the errors, without getting a popup for each row or aborting an import with an error message, that would be very nice.

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|8 months ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Allow for setting the column width for task/report parametersCompleted

Currently as a developer you are able to set the default column width for columns on a specific table. This will overrule the default column width set on project version level.This is a very useful setting, especially when developing for the Universal UI. Currently such a setting does not exist for the task and report parameters. Often when developing task and/or report popup windows one or more field contains a long text, for example the name of an item. Without being able to set specific column width for this task/report I am unable to increase the field size. Therefor I would like to set a setting for setting the column width on task/report level.

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|8 months ago

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