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1815 Ideas

Blommetje
BlommetjePartner

Synchronize Azure DevOps board with SFDeclined

If I am correct, it is currently not possible to synchronize taks/stories/bug/etc from the Azure dev board to the 'Specification’ (Features/iterations/..) in the SF Our Product Owners and all involved do not work in the SF. Therefor, if we can sync the sprints and the tasks in the sprint, we could monitor progress better. Since this is currently not synced, we do use the 'Specification’ menu, and that is a shame. To sync PO/testers/and bug reporting with development, this might come in handy.  

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingAdministrator

Customizable menuOpen

What I noticed is that as a user I can change the way my screen looks my selecting a different screen type or change what columns I see in a list and the order of appearance. What I can't change is the amount of menu items I see. In my case, I only use a handful of menu items within the Software Factory. I would like to hide certain menu items because I never open them anyway. Also changing the order of the menu to my liking is something I would like to be able to do. Edit: This would be a User preference setting, so available for any product (SF, IAM, End product)

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
E
Moderator
Erwin EkkelModerator

Add procedure name to tasks, control procs and triggers for easier troubleshootingOpen

When an application has a lot of triggers, nested procedures or tasks within tasks troubleshooting can become rather tricky. Luckily SQL provides some tools for this, namely the profiler and extended eventes. However, it is still rather time consuming to figure out which triggers and procedures are running during execution of a task or update statement. I know there is already the template naming in the procedures, however this does not give you the task name or the type of object it is and therefor is not very useful during troubleshooting a task that gives an error. Therefor it would be very helpful to add the stored procedure or trigger name directly after set nocount on and also show the type (trigger or stored procedure). something like this: -- Do not count affected rows for performance set nocount on -- type: trigger -- name: player_position_td Then during troubleshooting you can capture all nocount on events, "set nocount on" and comments directly afterwards can be captured by the profiler. This way you can easily see the path SQL is taking during execution of for example a task. If needed i can show an example of this and how it will improve troubleshooting.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingAdministrator

Using icons in combination with conditional layout in fieldsOpen

Currently we can only make a field in the application a certain color on the basis of something. It could be showing that a certain field is empty so we make the background yellow or that a price does meet certain requirements so the price has a different font. Sadly there's no easy way to show to the user what is exactly wrong or going on. We have to resort to help text, pop-up or panel messages, expression fields, extra detail tabs etc. I would like to see an icon in the application field that shows that something special is going on with that field. It would look a bit like this: or: Then when the user hovers over the icon, he or she should see an explanation of why the icon is visible and this should be in their language. That's why I would like to see this implemented in cohesion with Conditional layout, since that could be the actor showing the icon or not showing it. The icon could be a type of conditional layout the developer can create. Types could then be: info, warning, error, none (maybe even more?) Translations can then be created per conditional layout type in every application language.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Jop ter Horst
Vanguard
Jop ter HorstVanguard

Copy groups from form to grid and vice versaOpen

Since a few releases ago the GUI support grid groups. I noticed that I often use the same groups in the grid as in the form. Nowadays often I finish the form and copy it to the grid to get the same sequence and visibility. It would be great if the group and corresponding labels would be copied too,

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Erik Brink
Moderator
Erik BrinkModerator

Create task with parameters based on underlying table settingsOpen

Creating a new task for a subject, I would like to take over all or a part of its columns as parameters including their general, domain and form settings. Same for report parameters.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Dani
Moderator
DaniModerator

Frequently Used Menu / Favorites MenuOpen

I’ve been using the SF for a few weeks and when you have a big application with many menu items, I noticed that the quick way to open a menu is to search using filter. It would be nice if there is a ‘Frequent Used Menu’ or 'Favorites’ on the menu list.   notes: Frequent Used Menu will record and show the most opened menu on the list Favorites menu: the user should be able to add the favorites menu through the settings

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Remco
Moderator
RemcoModerator

Abillity to set the pop up for each row in task variant or table taskOpen

It would be nice if you can set the popup for each row checkbox in a task variant or in the table task tab.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Robert Jan de Nie
Thinkwise blogger
Robert Jan de NieThinkwise blogger

No lookup on generated tablesOpen

It is possible to create a look-up on a generated table, for instance a task-lookup. This should not be possible since generated objects get dropped when generating.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Add option 'Auto Fit to Extends on Refresh' to Maps ExtenderOpen

This option is available in the context menu, but would be nice to be executed automatically when a screen/dataset is openen or refreshed.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Michael
Sidekick
MichaelSidekick

Let the SF automaticly upload reports after saving in CR (2020.2 reports in DB)Open

In the 2020.2 version the reports are stored in the database, when you make a change to a report you basicly need to download the report and re-upload it to the sf model. This seems fairly easy to do. Yet its quickly missed (by me for example) that you need to do this.For example: In a SQL Code bit, when you open that in SQL management studio and save it. It will automaticly insert the new version of the code into the SF model. So why is the user experience different with reports? Feels a bit off that you need to edit the report  record in the SF, remove the report and then find the just editted report in your “Temp” folder (because thats where the SF stored it meanwhile you opened it). And re-upload it.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Tom van Druten
Warrior
Tom van DrutenWarrior

Domain (elements) VariantOpen

I'd like to be able to make a Variant of a Domain with Elements. Instead of making 'close to double' Domains I'd like to be able to do the next: Domain: "document_types" Elements(just some examples): 1- Purchase Order 2- Sales Order 3- Invoice 4- Picture 5- Kick off Document 6- Financial Summary So the case would be: I have a Documents table with a column "document_types" with this domain. As example there will be 2 views, where you can add Documents on different ways. So view 1: I want to be able to add Purchase Orders, Sales orders and Financial Summaries and in view 2: I want to be able to add Invoices, Pictures, Kick off Document and Financial Summaries. To achieve this i would have to make 2 more domains for view 1 and 2 where I'll also have to make sure the database values are the same as in domain "document_types". Right now it takes: -1 Extra time -2 The maintainability of these columns/domains are harder, because you need to make sure they are in-line with each other. What do you guys think?

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
M
Captain
Marc FerketCaptain

Set focus to filter(-field) on open-event Universal-screenOpen

In the mobile-GUI the filter-field automatic gets focus.In the Universal-GUI no field has focus. By setting the focus to the filter-field, the user can use a barcodescanner to enter data (without first having to give focus to the field).

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingAdministrator

Show icon instead of badge next to the object nameOpen

Instead of showing a number next to an object name that represents something, I would like to be able to make it an Icon. For instance, let's say the badge normally shows a number of rows where the user needs to do something about. But in my case it doesn't matter much if there's is 1 thing or 100 things. So instead of showing [100] I would like to show an icon. Then when hovering over the icon, it should show an tooltip where I can say to the user why the icon is visible. Example next to Tab 'File’:  

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Ester
Moderator
EsterModerator

Control with spelling or grammar checkOpen

I would like to be able to choose a control that has automatic spelling and/or grammar check. This control can then be used in the SF to check the spelling of help text.   This could also be nice to use in HTML, RTF or multi-lines for orders or data that will be shown on reports and send to customers.

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

Filter in treeviews without losing parent nodesOpen

Let's say I want to apply a manual filter in the following treeview, so I can see all validations assigned to me. This will lead to the following structure: I would very much like to be able to keep seeing the parent nodes, leaving this full branch of the tree intact. This way you never lose the structure of your treeview out of sight while filtering.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingAdministrator

Button to clear all running tasks in 'Running tasks' panelOpen

In my application it is possible to run some tasks multiple times and everytime it creates a record in the ‘Running tasks' panel. If I'm not looking there often and then look there after a while when activating the previously mentioned task, there can be numerous records in the panel. Pressing left-click on the 'X’ everytime is not so practical so...I would like a button to clear all records in the 'Running tasks’ panel.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
K.Bakkenes
Captain
K.BakkenesCaptain

Buttons ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ in previewOpen

We have developed a process flow that starts a new document with a preview. This preview opens a webpage to fill a shopping basket. The shopping basket will be pushed to the application and creates new records with the articles of the basket.When a user is navigating on the website it is possible that the user can’t return to a previous page within the website. Especially if the navigation(menu) of the website doesn’t facilitate this.For example: 2BA website. By clicking through the website you are able to get to a contact page but can’t return to the main page because the website doesn’t have any buttons to navigate to another page. This is really inconvenient. It would be nice to support ‘Previous’/’Next’-page navigation on a website via a the ‘preview’ component.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
R
Superhero
René WSuperhero

Clarify that only Excel files are allowed to import in the web guiDeclined

We've done some usability testing on the web gui and notices that it's not immediately clear what is allowed to import*. To place it in context, we also have other imports (xml or other various formats) via tasks, which may confuse end users. It's a bit difficult to explain end users that the “Import” is generic and different than importing a xml file via a task. So they often go to “Import” in stead of the task. It would be usefull if the web file upload has a file type restriction like the Windows GUI has: Windows GUIWeb GUI  This would help the user a bit more in troubleshooting. *: The users don't see the red dot when uploading an invalid file, and don't know why they cannot continue to the following screen. Maybe the red dot should be complemented with some text that the file extension is not allowed.  

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Uniqueidentifier with NEWSEQUENTIALID as Primary KeyOpen

I like to use a domain with Uniqueidentifier as datatype for primairy key fields in tables. In this case the pk field of new records should get a the value of function NEWID() or NEWSEQUENTIALID(). Using NEWID can be achieved by using a default procedure, but using NEWSEQUENTIALID() as default value in the table definition will result in better performance. I think this requires adjustments in the SF.

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

Disabling the possibility to make changes to generated screen typesOpen

When screen types are defined in a Base project and thus imported/genereated into a working projectversion, it is still possible to change them. All changes, however, will be lost after generating the definition of the version. When a mix of generated and new, specially for a version created, screen type exist one can easily make the mistake of changing a screen type in a working projectversion instead of in the base project where a screen type is generated from, For generated domains editing it is already disabled in the SF, so why not of screen types. Or for all generated items for that matter.

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

Websocket protocol supportOpen

In due time we wish to use an external API service which is based on the Websocket protocol. This protocol is currently not supported by the Thinkwise Platform. Can this supportbe added?

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

Multi-row tasks: notify user when task will not be executed for one or more of the selected rowsOpen

Per recommendation by @Anne Buit: creating an Idea about notifying the user when one or more of the selected rows in a Multi-row Task execution are - Not eligable due to Context logic - Evicted after user input was not applicable to the row (due to Layout logic limiting fields, look-up filters) - Not executable due to the Layout logic preventing the commitand as a result not Executed.  We concluded that in an important scenario for which we use the multi-row Task execution the lack of a notification to the end user is a huge risk, we cannot affort the task execution skipping a record going unnoticed to the end user. Basically, in this scenario we currently cannot use the Context procedure and have to work around it. So we're definitely eager to have the ability to notify the user in the above scenarios! 

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
K.Bakkenes
Captain
K.BakkenesCaptain

Create prefilter group via IAMOpen

When creating user prefilters (via TCP or an application with IAM) that could exclude each other you have to turn them on or off individually. It would be nice if users could create prefilter groups and even allow the group to ‘Exclude’ the prefilters. Just like TSF supports.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
M
Rookie
Miriam RoccellaRookie

Monitor the progress of a process flowOpen

To support complex functionality, we have developed process flows that require the execution of several steps including tasks and calls to external connectors. The whole process takes some time, particularly due to the external HTTP calls which have to be made during the process.It would be nice to be able to provide some feedback to the user with an indication of which action is being executed. This helps the user giving an idea about how long it might take before the whole process is finished.This could be eithera progress bar like the one available for tasks, its progress based simply on the count of how many steps are defined in the flow from start to end and which step is currently executing a pop-up showing a message like we see in many applications, its text providing information on the task that is active at any given moment or any other way of indicating progress in the execution of the process flow..Ideally all of the above, and the developer would be able to choose the desired method of indicating progress and configure it to work at best with the rest of application.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago

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