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avanderveldenVanguard

User preferences - set Start Objects in UniversalWorking on it!

Can the configuration under User Preferences to set Start Objects also be made available in the Universal GUI, as it is in the Windows GUI?  

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Joshua Rietveld
Forum|Forum|9 hours ago
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Rookie
JeanPaulRookie

Some improvements on visibility of open documentsWorking on it!

In the universal GUI opening (a lot of) documents can make the navigation panel cluttered and even push the menu out of sight: Some suggestions to improve this: Split the navigation panel in two panels with seperate vertical scroll-bars as soon as the number of open documents exceeds a certain treshold Add levels for detail-documents beneath open documents and collaps them the same as the menu tree with (automatic) collapsing and expanding Add context (part of the breadcrumb) to the title or mouse-over of detail-documents to prevent having to open a document to see wich one is the right one Another suggestion: An option to lock an open document, so that it is available the next time I login to the application

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|17 hours ago
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Vanguard
jkruterVanguard

Context parameters for badgesDeclined

As an alternative for this idea: Some improvements on visibility of open documents | Thinkwise CommunityI thought I might be able to use a badge to achieve the same result. I looked very promising, until I realized badges only know the context of the possible parent relations, not the subject itself (other than @variant_id).If we had access to the subject’s context, like the selected row’s primary keys, or the column filters (set by the “Change filters” process action), badges could be much more versatile.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 day ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Context menu (Right-click) support for Universal GUIOn the backlog

Being able to right-click on rows would enhance the user experience a lot!Basically the same idea as what is currently working in the Windows GUI:  

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Robert Jan de Nie
Thinkwise blogger
Forum|Forum|1 day ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Untranslated option for universal guiOpen

In the windows gui you had the option to show the application without any translations. This functionality is missing from universal. For debugging purposes I would very much like this option to return. When I investigate a problem on an environment I don’t know I have to use the translated object, translate this to the database object. Then revert this to get the menu objects I need. I know application insights is a thing. But that doesn’t always work and is still not as fast as just showing the application without translation used to be. 

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 day ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

Disable translation in Universal GUIMerged

In the Windows GUI a developer could choose to disable translations of domains and fields. This comes in as very handy when one wants to see which field is shown in, for example, a form. In my case, depending on what box is checked, a field called supplier_no is shown or homedealer_supplier_no: Switching on / off for translations in Windows GUI: I have not yet found the same functionality in the Universal GUI. Perhaps something to support in the future?

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 day ago
C. Lousberg
Captain
C. LousbergCaptain

Login-option based on network-locationOpen

it would be great if Universal GUI/Indicium can determine if the user is on the local network or somewhere ‘outside’.In case we can determine the inside or outside location, it should be possible to configure the “login verification” at the user (or maybe application ?) per location.E.g.LAN login verification: “Password” Non-LAN login verification: “Password and TOTP token”This will make it possible to setup MFA for external usage, and avoid the additional factor in case working on the LAN.

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C. Lousberg
Captain
Forum|Forum|1 day ago
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Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Multiple selected row + edit button = mass updateNew

The mass-update button is a bit hidden behind the three-dot button. Could the Edit button react based on how many rows are selected? So if you have one row selected and press the Edit button you get the current behaviour, but if you have multiple rows selected and press the Edit button it opens the mass-update popup.

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Captain
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Execute Hotfixes from inside IAM/SFOn the backlog

Can you please add an option to execute hotfixes from inside the hotfix screen, without the need of download and install a installation package.   

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Harm Horstman
Superhero
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Make IAM great again: redesign screens to use less detailsCompleted

Now that customer success is the focus. Can we also put some love and care into IAM? A lot of the screens are loaded with detail upon detail upon detail. Here is a small snippet of one of these monstrosities. Working on a laptop screen using Iam is next to impossible. Using less details and maybe aggregate some information into 1 view instead of a lot of details would greatly benefit the useability. Or add AI so I can ask IAM if a certain user has access to a certain menu sub item.   

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
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Rookie
Henno TillemaRookie

Extend custom_display_format functionality to get Excel like field display/edit possibilitiesOn the backlog

The SF and data domains offer little possibilities to control the presentation of numbers. I thought the custom_display_format extenders would be the solution but I found some shortcomings that make them less useable in practice. I discussed this with Thinkwise people: The current behaviour is as intended but they think the following would be a good improvement.Simple example for a currency datatype NUMERIC(18,3) where users normally want to see only 2 decimals but the extra decimal is needed for calculation accuracy. By using an extender with "€ 0.00" format for the domain you get the following behaviourPositive:Display with 2 decimals is correct and third decimal is used for rounding up/down correctly An entered number with 3 decimals is correctly stored in the underlying tableNegative:When EDITING data there is no way to see the third stored decimal When EDITING it is not possible to edit the existing number; you have to clear the field and reenter the complete numberThe behaviour is the same in grid and form screens. We would expect behaviour like e.g. Excel:Display data using the Extender. They are called custom_display_format for a reason I think. Possibility to edit the exact stored dataWithout this behaviour the introduction of the extender seems of little use; the same could be achieved using an expressions field. But a task would be required to edit data and this is what we want to prevent.An extra improvement would be if the scope of the extender could be specified on a lower level than a domain. Then you would get the possibility to present and edit the same table field in multiple ways; the exact data for the finance department and in another screen rounded numbers for sales but still the possibility to edit the exact number.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Simplify use of Refresh Model task during developmentPlanned

During development, the "Refresh Model" task may be called hundreds of times per day.It might be an idea to move the task to the header bar or assign a Shortkey to the task.And at the same time ignore all warnings, because they do not matter during development. This will definitely save a lot of time during development.  

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Make Launch Application also perform a refresh modelPlanned

The launch application option in 2026.1 does not do a full refresh model.I’m not sure what it does exactly but it seems to load the menu and screen but not the new data model. I would opt to always perform a full refresh model when using launch application. Since you want to see the application in it’s current state, not in some half cached state. 

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
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Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Look-up dropdown - indication when there are more optionsNew

When a look-up control is set to suggestion, the dropdown of the lookup only shows the first 8 results. But in fact there could be a lot more results. This is not clear to the user. Please add a visual indication for the user when there are more results. Preferably when clicking on the indication, it opens the lookup popup.  

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Captain
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
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Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Adding multiple rows at once through a lookupNew

A request I heard a lot from users over the years is to make it possible to select multiple rows in a lookup window and add them all at once. I don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t be possible if we accept the following limitations:The user must be adding a row (not editing). All fields (excepts for the lookup field) must be optional or filled with a default value. So no user interaction is required to add the row.  Although maybe it could be possible to allow mandatory fields that are not filled with a default procedure if the user just enters it in the first row and the same value is used for all rows. So if the user wants to add multiple rows, he presses the ‘Add’ button, opens the lookup window and select multiple rows. The GUI should fill in the first row, save the row, automatically add the next row with the next selected value and continue this until all selected values are added. The default/layout procedure should be executed for each row. If one rows encounters a problem, for example one selected value is rejected in the default procedure, It should skip that row and continue with the next one. A same kind of summary popup with failed rows could be shown to the user as is done with the mass-update feature.     

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Captain
Forum|Forum|6 days ago
Robert Jan de Nie
Thinkwise blogger
Robert Jan de NieThinkwise blogger

Create icon using AINew

I often have trouble finding the right icon. It would be great if I can describe the icon I want and have the Software Factory (using gen. AI) create an icon for me. Perhaps, as context, I should have a place where I can store the project guidelines for icon usage, for example colour usage, complexity, etc. This way, I get a more predictable outcome for the icon.In my mind the context given to the AI should be as follows: Object type (task, prefilter, table, etc.) Object name Object translation Object description (application specific) guidelines regarding icons Some sample icons coming from the current set Optional description of what I wantThe output should be a proposed icon (svg) that I can either: Accept and use Reply to and ask to generate a new icon

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Robert Jan de Nie
Thinkwise blogger
Forum|Forum|8 days ago
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Apprentice
BjinseApprentice

Make it possible to disable autocorrect for (search) fieldsNew

When using the Universal GUI in Mac OS Safari, the fact that all edit fields use autocorrect by default, is very annoying. For example, when searching for a partial customer name, at one time you see the you typed enough characters to find the record you want. When you then navigate away from the search field, autocorrect kicks in, and often the autocorrected partial name is not what you want. Then the grid is empty or at least changed.As far as I see, this only happens in Safari, because Chrome does not have autocorrect.It seems disabling autocorrect is only possible / necessary in Safari and Firefox: https://caniuse.com/?search=autocorrect Being able to also disable autocorrect for form fields and grid fields could also be a handy feature. But there it could probably default to autocorrect=on for most text fields.

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B
Apprentice
Forum|Forum|9 days ago
M
Warrior
MaartenWarrior

Optimize the smoke test screenOpen

In the smoke test screen you are quite limited on functions. I would love to see 2 things added here.A Task to hide a Test, or approve. Just like in the validation screen. Take for example a View that command timed out. You know the reason but it still pops up in your list and give alot of cluther arround the test steps that matter.   Another great task which is introduced in a lot of screens is the Go to functionality button or Go to prefilter button. Currently when something is wrong with a prefilter in the test step, you are not able to edited it in the form. You need to open it separately in subjects. Or when something is wrong with a view I would to go to the view code directly. 

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R
Forum|Forum|9 days ago
P
Rookie
PcardolRookie

Always show record count in gridsNew

Figure 1Figure 2As shown in the screenshots, the pagination bar in Figure 1 (e.g. “1–100 of 318”) is visible when multiple pages exist, but completely hidden when there is only one page (visible in Figure 2). This means users cannot immediately see how many records are present in smaller result sets. Although we can add an aggregated count field to display the total number of records, we would prefer to have the possibility to make the standard pagination bar visible instead for consistency and user convenience.

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P
Rookie
Forum|Forum|9 days ago
P
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Global search button indication for inputNew

When the Global search field is shown as a button (without the text field), please make a visual indication when a search criteria is entered.   

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P
Captain
Forum|Forum|9 days ago
A
Vanguard
avanderveldenVanguard

Search and open documents always visible on top of menuOpen

Can the search and open document always be visible on top, also when you are scrolling down.In Windows GUI, the search is at least always visible, in Universal GUI all disappears when scrolling down in the menu  

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A
Vanguard
Forum|Forum|10 days ago
SanderAdam
Captain
SanderAdamCaptain

Single click tasks for card lists on mobile devicesNew

Hello all,We have a scenario where we want the user to navigate to a details tab, the user in this case is on a mobile device. While on a tablet, there are some options to make a detail tab appear on the side of the screen, this option is not doable for mobile phones. And some of our users are going to use mobile phones instead of tablets.We used a task link before, so the user can click on a task on a record, but this is not ideal. This is not the web and mobile way. As Nielsen and Norman's 10 usability heuristics put it: recognition rather than recall. On mobile and web applications (looking at apps like Outlook and Gmail) it is common to have a single click on a record. Just on the record, not on a task button integrated in the record.A user will recognise a single click on a card record to navigate to the details, rather than having to actively push an integrated button, link or a double click. This is all very Windows oriented and not quite how web and mobile apps are built. We find it to be inconsistent with web standards. So that is why I would like to request a single click option: as single click on a card record, like in Outlook or Gmail to get to a detail view of a said record via a task and (if necessary) process flow.Though I've seen merged ideas to the following idea: https://community.thinkwisesoftware.com/ideas/ability%2Dto%2Dshow%2Dtable%2Dtasks%2Don%2Dgrid%2Dline%2D518 This is not what we are looking for. This is still a new feature which is very Windows oriented. We don't want extra buttons in our records, we want the user to just click a record once and navigate to the desired details.This happens to fall nicely under the fourth Nielsen and Norman usability heuristic as well as the sixth:Consistency and StandardsUsers should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing. Follow platform and industry conventions.Jakob's Law states that people spend most of their time using digital products other than yours. Users’ experiences with those other products set their expectations. Failing to maintain consistency may increase the users' cognitive load by forcing them to learn something new.Recognition Rather than RecallMinimize the user's memory load by making elements, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the interface to another. Information required to use the design (e.g. field labels or menu items) should be visible or easily retrievable when needed.Humans have limited short-term memories. Interfaces that promote recognition reduce the amount of cognitive effort required from users.At this point in time, we have quite a history of user actions on the internet, and the single click on a card record (like in Outlook or Gmail) is one of them. This would, instead of a new double click action, greatly increase usability of our software, especially for those that are not too well versed in computers and mobile devices.

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SanderAdam
Captain
Forum|Forum|10 days ago
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Captain
PatrickW

Support Image Paste (Ctrl+V) in Universal GUINew

In our daily work we frequently use Snagit to create and annotate screenshots for documentation, issue tracking, and clarifications. The workflow is very efficient: capture → annotate → Ctrl+C → paste it where you need it.However, when attaching the image in the Universal GUI, we currently need to: Save the file locally Open the upload dialog Browse to the folder Select and upload the file These extra steps slow down the process, especially when adding multiple screenshots per day.ProposalAllow users to paste images directly from the clipboard (Ctrl+V) into an attachment or image field in the Universal GUI.If the clipboard contains an image, the GUI should automatically upload and store it.This behavior is already common in many modern web applications and would significantly improve usability. 

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P
Captain
Forum|Forum|13 days ago
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Rookie
Bob ZuidhoekRookie

Sidebar navigation menu: Reposition hamburger switcher + Make full collapsable state possibleNew

Goals of this feature request:The sidebar navigation menu hamburger icon and screen name can be positioned more logically and consistently across all screen sizes (mobile / desktop). On expanding the menu from a collapsed state, the user currently no longer sees the screen name. Make this visible.  Introduce a fully collapsed menu state for maximum use of horizontal screen real estate.  The current sidebar states are as following:  We suggest to make the hamburger switcher stick to the left of the topbar. And then let the navigation sidebar work from below the topbar (it currently overlays it). Also introduce the possibility for a three-state navigation sidebar (instead of two-state) by clicking the hamburger icon (sequence 1 > 2 > 3 > back to 1): Fully expanded state  Partially collapsed state Fully collapsed state (maximum horizontal screen real estate In a sidebar collapsed state, the menu should expand when the user hovers over the hamburger icon (this is something currently missing as well). This behavior is required to expand the sidebar from a fully collapsed state, while still be able to collapse it again when the user leaves the hover-over.  This feature request also coincides with another feature that is already underway, and that is being able to use ALT + M shortcut to automatically set focus to the search field of the navigation sidebar.  For power users (which most users are using Thinkwise systems) the fully collapsed sidebar state in combination with ALT + M to quickly find the menu-item they know (and return to new screen with collapsed menu), provides them with maximum screen real estate to work on at all time while still attaining a fast navigation flow. The end result is also a consistent hamburger menu positioning and sidebar menu behavior across all device types.    

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B
Rookie
Forum|Forum|13 days ago
Arie V
Community Manager
Arie VCommunity Manager

Activate top-left Screen Component upon opening a screenOpen

Upon opening a new Document in the Universal GUI the first value in the top left (at least for Western writing) Screen Component should be activated. This especially goes for the Grid component, where it seems as if the first Row is selected. In below example it took me 44 tabs to get to the first column value of the seemingly selected Row. Could the Universal GUI be a bit smarter here? 

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Rookie
Forum|Forum|13 days ago

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