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Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Show user when form tab page contains mandatory field(s)Open

For example, when I want to add a new entry, I can see the mandatory fields that are not inside a tab page:However, then I will save my entry and I get the following error: My issue is that I currently do not know if a tab page contains a mandatory field. Right now I can only find out by saving or manually open all tab pages to check if it contains a mandatory field.I see multiple options:Automatically open tab pages that contain mandatory fields which are empty. Mark a tab page with a red *, in the same way that is done on field level. Show a badge with a number of mandatory empty fields.

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Erik Brink
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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Thinkwiser
MaartenThinkwiser

Tooltips support on UI elementsOpen

I've recently run into a common and frustrating issue when working with the GUI: not knowing which types of objects actually support tooltips.Like probably many other developers, I had the idea of adding tooltip to a domain element—to help end users better understand what those elements represent. But after configuring it and running some tests, I was disappointed to discover that tooltips simply don’t work on domain elements.This isn't limited to domain elements either. There are several other object types where tooltips are silently ignored. What makes this more problematic is that: There’s no documentation or indication of which elements do or don’t support tooltips. The GUI allows you to configure tooltips for elements where they won’t be used by the GUI—so you only find out the hard way (trial and error). This feels like a missed opportunity to improve usability. Suggestions Ideally, tooltips should work universally across all object types where it makes sense. At the very least, the system should: Indicate which elements support tooltips, and Disable the configuration GUI for objects that don’t. This would save developers time and help us build more user-friendly apps without the guesswork.Would love to hear if others have run into this

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Erik Brink
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
C. Lousberg
Captain
C. LousbergCaptain

Handle translations Case SensitiveOn the backlog

The SF/IAM databases are Case insensitve (Latin1_General_CI_AS) by default.As we sometimes make some mistakes (who doesn't), we'd like to correct the cases in translations.E.g. cange “Purchase order” to “Purchase Order”. Currently there are 2 workarounds:update the records in transl table or, change to “Purchase Order1”, sync to all IAM's and change to correct “Purchase Order” The idea we'd like to see implemented is that a collate Latin1_General_CS_AS compare takes place and also the update will take place in this collation so the correct cases will be stored.

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D
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Freddy
Thinkwiser
FreddyThinkwise Local Partner Brasil

Maintain custom.css in SFOpen

I guess it should be possible to dynamically load a custom.css in the U-GUI via the model. So the custom CSS can be maintained from the SF. 

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Harm Horstman
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Include debugging info within Universal User menuOpen

As a developer I receive tickets from my clients about an issue in their application. When this is a GUI issue I need to submit a ticket in TCP for this and always have to include an .HAR file. It would be great to have a button “Download log file” in the User menu.And next to this I would also need the option to download a more technical file, including the Live error log information in a file.Both can be included in the same button which a user can use from within the Universal User menu.Having a button within the application to download these 2 debug files will increase troubleshooting and save a lot of time. Because you can instruct users, when they experience an issue, to download these files and provide them to you.  

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
M
Superhero
Mark_Plaggenborg

A task to Copy translations from Column -> ColumnOpen

An extension to the idea here:An option to copy a translation from one column to others. Beneficial for column names being (slightly) different for purpose of database recognition, but visually in a GUI the translation could be the same.Other reason for different column names could be:- Different developers;- Insight change;- Dependencies of external sources/services.Best option would probably be selecting the columns you wish changes and be able to select the one source column in the task.An example of column names that could possibly result into the same translation: “active”, “is_active”, “active_yn”, “is_active_ny”.Especially in a multi language application the maintenance of translations is quite cumbersome.

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
S
Vanguard
SuleymanVanguard

Blocking of dates on date picker (calendar)Open

Currently users are allowed to pick any date from the date picker and try to save a record. Whether the chosen date is allowed or not is being validated upon saving the record and a ‘warning’ below will let you know that it is not allowed to select this date. Users are forced to cancel the record and find out what would be allowed as input. It would be much better when we could block dates which are not allowed to be chosen. For example: Startdate of a new contract could not be in the past. How nice if we simply block these dates for the users in date picker. Just like booking a flight ticket (if there is no flight, you can't select these dates)

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
L
Rookie
Lars MartensRookie

Blocking unavailable datesMerged

When working on some Practice Cases in the Software Factory, we have been looking for a way to lock/block dates for user’s to select upon populating a ‘Date’-input field in the app.Example situations would be: In an app that lets users reserve a slot for car maintenance, haircut or any other type of appointment, a selected date could ofcourse never be in the past.  If a librarian is manually entering the return date of a book, this date could never be before the issue date the book. These dates should ideally be automatically blocked from selecting. So far we have not found any proper workarounds other than having a error message pop up once the user is selecting an invalid date. This for sure is not the ideal user experience.Any possibility to have this functionality integrated? Or are there any alternative solutions we may have overlooked?  

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
E
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Improved HTML control in regards to Copy-PasteOpen

Can we get a better control for the HTML fields in universal? Trying to copy advanced text into a html control is a chore.Here are some examples of annoyances:Copying from Notepad/notepad++ removes all kind of textWhen putting this text in Notepad/Notepad++:<this is not copied> this is copied <not there> <not there as well> is thereAnd copy pasting into the HTML editor in Universal, I end up with:this is copied is thereCopying from sql removes the layout. When putting this text in SQL Server Management Studio:    -- Drop all referenced foreign keys    select @sql = @sql + N'alter table ' + quotename(t2.name) + N' drop constraint ' + quotename(f.name) + N' ' + char(10) + char(13)      from sys.foreign_keys f      join sys.tables t        on t.object_id = f.referenced_object_id      join sys.tables t2        on t2.object_id = f.parent_object_id     where t.name = @tab_idAnd copy pasting into the HTML editor in Universal, I end up with:  -- Drop all referenced foreign keys select @sql = @sql + N'alter table ' + quotename(t2.name) + N' drop constraint ' + quotename(f.name) + N' ' + char(10) + char(13) from sys.foreign_keys f join sys.tables t on t.object_id = f.referenced_object_id join sys.tables t2 on t2.object_id = f.parent_object_id where t.name = @tab_id- When copying from Teams, the newlines also get removed. - Copying from webbrowser also copies the background colourThis makes creating a simple instruction in an html field almost impossible. So I regularly choose to upload a Word file instead of trying to get this to work in a html field. 

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
tiago
Captain
tiagoCaptain

horizontal card listOpen

I've encountered a couple of times a use case for a horizontal cardlist, as compared to the current vertical cardlist. a horizontal cardlist is often used in: dashboards e-shops portals phonebookThe idea of the horizontal cardlist is that it grows horizontally until the end of the page and than create a new row for all items. Often limited by an X amount per page for performance.In combination with this tip Upgrade your Card Lists with 4 Simple Tweaks | Thinkwise Community this would become very powerfull tool to make atractive pages for users.The current navigation option(clicking twice) is not very ideal, but allows for flexibility to open the detail or for example a next level of categories.  I was wondering if anyone already encountered this need as well. 

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
L
Thinkwiser
luukschoutenThinkwiser

Handler output parametersOpen

Handler procedures are not only called from the GUI but can also be invoked through other SQL code.For example, creating a sales order can be initiated by a user via the GUI or triggered by a received EDI message.Currently, handlers include output parameters for identity values. This allows the identity—when it serves as the primary key—to be reused, for instance, to create the corresponding sales order lines.However, there are also models where the primary key is not set as an identity. This can occur, for example, in data models with a company structure, where the primary key is a sequential number within the context of the company.In such cases, it would also be desirable to make the primary key generated in the handler, and potentially other columns as well, available as output parameters.A possible solution is to allow, per column in the model, the specification that it is an output parameter—similar to how defaults, layout, and context procedures are configured. By default, this setting could be enabled for all primary key columns and optionally enabled by the developer for non-primary key columns.

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
J
Vanguard
jkruterVanguard

Conditional layout priority orderingOpen

Imagine you have a lot of conditional layouts that span the whole row, to indicate different statuses. In my case I have 5:Screenshot with 5 different conditional layouts in random orderMore than one condition can apply to a record simultaneously. Currently, it seems to just pick a consistent, but random, color when this happens. For example when a row both has mutated lines (red) and is paused (orange), it is colored orange. I’d like to apply an order of priority to the conditional layouts, so that I can define red as the more important status, forcing it to choose red over orange when both apply. I’m aware I can also define the conditions in such a way that they will never overlap, but I would prefer not to do this, to keep their definitions clear and to the point. As you can imagine it would also become quite the DRY violation, getting worse the more conditions you add.

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J
Vanguard
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
R
Captain
Roy van UffelenCaptain

Ability to order conditional layoutsMerged

Currently the order in which conditional layouts are evaluated is alphabetically by name "How do conditional layouts work".I'd like to be able to influence the order. Options could be adding an order number, or changing the order in the grid.

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Mark Jongeling
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Arie V
Community Manager
Arie VCommunity Manager

Change 'Open Documents' terminology as it is confusingCompleted

As a relatively fresh user of the Thinkwise Platform I am confused by the fact that the terminology ‘Open Documents’ is used as header for something I would describe as 'Open tabs/screens/views/menu-items'. Open Documents to me has to do with files I have open, not some screen within an Enterprise application. Do you believe it's a good idea to change this? Alternatively: is it customizable in our own instance?

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
B
Warrior
BramGWarrior

Use lookup in extended filterPlanned

At this moment it's not possible to open a popup to the corresponding table in the filter options. We would like to see this feature, so extra attributes and context of a specific option in the table are shown. This will help users choose a specific filter option. 

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Arie V
Community Manager
Arie VCommunity Manager

Determine if next Process Action should be executed immediatelyPlanned

Process Actions in the Universal GUI related to navigating through screens don't perform too well. A user can navigate faster through the GUI manually. One of the reasons for this are the many HTTP calls that are triggered after a Process Action is executed. A bit similar to the concept of Refresh after Execute for Tasks, it would help if there is a setting available for each Process Action in which it can be determined whether or not to immediately perform the next Process Action. An example:A Process Flow that performs Open Document > Change Filter > Go to Row should only retrieve the Data after the required (set of) Row(s) is determined with the Go to Row Process Action. ​​​​​​​Can something like this be added to the Platform soon?

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R
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
M
Rookie
Max FerketRookie

Is it possible to create a screen like the SF Taskboard, with nonfixed number of lanesOpen

I want to create a screen where I can drag and drop work items (custom work items, not the ones from the SF) into lanes that each have a different work item status. Just like the work item taskboard in the SF. However we don’t have a fixed amount of statuses, so is it possible to create a screentype take creates the number of lanes as neccessary for the query? I hope my goal is clear. If this is not a possibility then I would like to suggest it as a new feature. I would then also like this to be possible as grid/tiles.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
K
Thinkwiser
kenterweemeThinkwiser

Surface area of drawn shapes on mapsOpen

With the new 2025.2 release it is now possible to draw shapes directly on the maps component. For reference see: In addition to drawing shapes, it would be of great benefit to my client that the surface area of the drawn shape is calculated (in square meters). Especially for complex polygons.Ideally, when hovering over the drawn shape, this would show up in the popup. Just like what now happens when drawing a circle and the radius is displayed. Use case: A farm field is divided into three zones, each planted with a different vegetable. On the map, when hovering over each zone, we’d like to display the surface area in square meters for each crop.While we could calculate the area ourselves based on the coordinates, having this functionality built into the platform especially for irregular or complex shapes with many angles would be of a big added value.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
L
Thinkwiser
luukschoutenThinkwiser

Unit test validationOpen

For various types of unit tests, the presence of mock data or a preparation query is necessary, as otherwise they are executed on the data currently present in the end product, which may change and lead to unreliable unit test results. This applies at least to all update and delete handlers and triggers.Can a validation be created for this?

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
T
Thinkwiser
ThijeThinkwiser

Change size task/report execute/cancel buttonsOpen

Is it possible to add a setting for the size of the execute/cancel button within a task/report ?Usecase:In the warehouse they work with gloves and tablets, trying to confirm or cancel a task with these gloves is hard using these ‘small’ buttons. (Solution for now is custom CSS)

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Arie V
Community Manager
Arie VCommunity Manager

Show multiple Related Tables on a single Detail TabOpen

One of the great features of the Thinkwise low-code platform in terms of development speed, is also one of the most annoying features from an end user perspective: the concept of Detail Tabs for related tables. It is very challenging to keep the UI clean and understandable when getting more and more related tables. We often have to revert to Views which combine a few tables in order to improve the user experience.Personally, I like the concept of displaying multiple Related Tables in a Single Tab, Grids below each other with each their own Header, only occupying space for the nr of records it contains (Salesforce does this for example). For most related tables the nr of records is usually low, therefore displaying them each on their own tab is a waste of space. Optionally, the individual Grids could include pagination for each related table, displaying for instance 10 rows by default (nr of rows should be a setting somewhere).How about introducing this in Thinkwise, in addition to the current Detail Tabs & Detail Tiles options? 

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Bart Metselaar
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
A
Hero
Alban_THero

Filter form with default valuesOpen

I noticed that in the past this was requested but didn't get enough votes.But in 5 years a lot can happen so I hope it's possible to ask for this functionality again?I have a grid with a lot of data and I want to be able to show all the records with date A and maybe next I want to see all records with date B.I can make prefilters but a prefilter only accounts for e.g. “today” of a seperate one for “yesterday” but not dynamically for x days ago.For this I've added a filterform and I would like to be able to set the date dropdown to a default value of today.I hear you say, use a prefilter for “today” and let the user pick a different date from the filterform when they need a different date.My experience is that the customer starts calling me because no records are found because he filters for “2014-02-14” AND the prefilter for “today” is also on.I'll tel them to use the “turn of prefilters chackbox” or manually turn of the “today” prefilter but there are many users and even those I’ve instructed before tend to forget it.Currently I disabled the prefileter and accept that the user manualy needs to pick today from the filterform date dropdown. But it would be much more conveniant if the date was by default today.I've limited the amount of records to 2000 because otherwise all current 205725 records are read every time the window opens. Unfortunately some days 2000 isn’t enough to hold all records for “today”… 

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J
Vanguard
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
L
Thinkwiser
luukschoutenThinkwiser

IAM role setsOpen

IAM includes a task to clean up unused role sets.I've noticed in several projects that this feature is not well known, and the documentation is also quite limited.However, in some cases, cleaning up unused role sets significantly improves end-user login performance.Is there a specific reason why unused role sets are retained?If not, my suggestion would be to automatically remove a role set once it is no longer applicable.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
P
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Small improvements for Tag management in SFOpen

When working with dynamic code in the SF, the Tags table can grow rapidly for all kind of different settings. After a while it gets harder to select the right tag when adding it to an object, even when using a naming convention for them. Most of the time, tags are used only to link to one object type (for example just to link to tables), however all tags are always selectable for all object types. In order to reduce the amount of tags to choose from, it could be a simple improvement that a tag has an extra optional field where you can select the object type for which the tag is exclusively used (if the field is empty the tag will still show up for all object types).  Another thing that could help with better Tag management is adding an extra field with a sub-table (for example ‘tag_group’) in which you can combine tags of the same subject in order to (pre)filter on them quickly.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
P
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Add a default value for tagsOpen

As a small QOL feature, I would like the ability in the SF to use a default value for Tags so that when linking the tag to an object it defaults on this value.Use case is a tag that needs a value for a dynamic script, but the value is almost always the same.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago

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