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Sidekick
peter.bongersSidekick

New process flow connector import actionOpen

Create a new process flow action to import files into a specific table, performing the same action as the manual import functionality on the Subjects screen. This should be available as selectable actions in the system flow connector, just like "add record" or "update record".For now, we require this functionality for one case.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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Superhero
Mark_Plaggenborg

Trigger input constraint (Domain) before finalizing actionOpen

The input constraint option on de domains are a nifty feature to check the user input for valid data. When wrong values are entered a warning is shown and finalizing actions like “Save” and “Execute” are blocked.Sometimes defaults are being used to help the user to reduce manual input, so even fields with an input constraint could be filled by this.Here comes the unfortunate part…. the input constraint is being ignored. (sad_face)Please trigger the input constraints once more when using a finalizing action to still block this if a constraint will fail the validation.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
E
Sidekick
Edwin SaanSidekick

User interface for operational employees (large fonts and big buttons)Closed

From our users in the operation (drivers, crane drivers, warehouse employees, production employees) I have heard regularly the requirement for bigger fonts and bigger buttons.These people do have large working hands and the tasks and the prefilters in the universal GUI are really small even as the letter size. They have no problem with scrolling up and down, as long they can read the info and easily can touch the buttons.Idea: We would like to have BIG BUTTONS in the form or at the end of the cardlist with the actions and prefilters they can do.And furthermore if we have 3 tasks or more they are hidden behind a really small icon with 3 dots.. That is hard to explain to these people. For my 3 clients we’re already talking about 300 people. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
B
Warrior
BramGWarrior

Automatically squash data migration in merge session.Closed

We would like to specify during merging (or, if necessary, during an upgrade) that data migrations should be squashed. Now this has to be done manually after merging a branch, and if forgotten, data could be lost. If this can be specified with a check mark in the merge session, which is on by default, that would be nice. It could also possibly be done at the start of an upgrade, but the preference for us is before the merge session.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
rickwenning
Vanguard
rickwenningVanguard

Option to hide collapsible formCompleted

Hi all,I use the tab page option to create a division between two groups in a form. This way, a specific layout is possible. In platform upgrade 2025.1 the collapsible form is introduced, triggered by the tabpage option.However, there is no option to hide the clickable part of the collapsible form. I want the layout to be the same, without the blue bar.Tab pages create collapsible forms with a clickable part (light blue bar)It would be nice to have the option to keep the layout of tab pages in Universal and hide the clickable part.One way to implement this, is to create a checkbox in Subjects → Component → Form. When selected (by default) the clickable part is shown and the form can be collapsed. When the checkbox is empty, the clickable part is not shown, the form is not collapsible, but the layout is the same. An option to hide the collapsible form can be implemented in this section.Kind regards,Rick

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
M
Rookie
MarcMeijerinkRookie

Clickable Breadcrumb path Universal GUIOpen

The breadcrumb path in the Universal GUI looks like a clickable Windows Explorer setup, but it's not.When going through some software with a stakeholder they were wondering why they couldn't click the breadcrumb path to move back to the last screen or even the one before that.An excellent idea I thought! I hereby forward it. Let's have a clickable breadcrumb path to navigate more smoothly like you would in an explorer browser.

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

Add custom Menu items to topbar in Universal GUIOn the backlog

It would be great to be able to add Menu items to the topbar in the Universal GUI. I presume this is not new to the Universal development team. It is becoming quite common for applications to have a few icons to the top right (next to the User icon) with usefull features. If we would have the ability to ‘pin’ certain Menu items to the topbar, we come a long way I believe.These Menu items could be displayed as small Icons, including Badge symbols. Some ideas for which I believe this feature would be valuable:My Tasks: a list with all Open Tasks for that User. Badge symbol to show nr of Open Tasks My Workflow/Approvals: a list with all Pending Approvals/Reviews for that User. Badge symbol to show nr of Pending items Notifications: a list with all notifications for the user (we are considering a feature to Subscribe to specific records, triggering a notification if certain activity is happening on that record) Help: a link to page/context-specific User Instructions

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A
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Look-up value in cubeOn the backlog

I'd like to see the look-up value of a table in a cube. For example when I want to show the employee, now I have to use employee_name, thats fine. But often I'd like to create a reference between the cube/view and employee, so I have to add employee_id too, now we have two columns what could be one if the cube supported look-up values.

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A
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
E
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Universal, when the error is too huge show a snippet insteadOpen

Some errors, especially on views can be huge. This will make it not possible to click on the show database event log unless you zoom out to a tiny zoom level. Please set a maxium for the information thrown. And when too large show a snippet instead. normal zoom:  Zoom level 33% will show the hyper links:  

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

IAM Schedule log - Log all Process Flows and (optionally) all Process Actions tooOn the backlog

Currently IAM Schedule log gives us an overview of all System flows that ran, with very limited information. As an extension to this we would like to see:Logging for all Process Flows - also the User-invoked ones Logging for all Process Actions as a Detail table - allowing us to see start date / end date input/output variables, and status for each individual Process Action within the Process Flow. This will help us monitor, review, debug and improve Process Flows. Since for certain use cases the information contained in these variables might be sensitive, logging Process Actions should be optional.Note: due to this functionality currently missing within the platform, we have created our own smart dynamic logic to monitor our Process Flows and Actions. This comes with some limitations however, since we have no way to establish with 100% certainty the status and end date of a Process Action. We have to resort to using the start date of the next Action as end date for the previous Action. And if the next Action is never reached we have no idea why not and therefore log an end date based on a time-out of x minutes.

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
P
Captain
PatrickW

More options in Process flow action Change FiltersMerged

Currently the Change Filters-process action works with static values and ‘Equals’, as stated in the documentation:The filter value that must be set on the column in question as an equal to filter condition. This parameter is present for every column of the subject. It would be nice if there are more options, like ‘is not empty’, ‘starts with’ etc, just like the normal Filter function.  

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Add a link to the database log entry for errors in the live error log.Open

When a SQL error occurs in universal you sometimes get a link to the database event log and the live error log. The live error log shows the error, the database event log shows the initial request with a copy statement option. The live error log does not include this copy statement option, which makes sense because this is just a raw error output. However for trouble shooting please add a link to the database event log entry in the error log, so you can copy the code there. live error log:  database event log:  

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Dani
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
mperrott
Hero
mperrottHero

Universal GUI Scheduler - Grouping to be possible with more than one FieldCompleted

Dear all,We have identified that the groupping of records for the scheduler can be configured only by 1 column and it is not possible to have more than 1 currently.The idea is to be able to specify the groupping level and have a Treeview as first column of the defined groups in the scheduler.Similar to what was in WEB GUI: 

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
T
Thinkwiser
ThijeThinkwiser

Rearrange column field 'Domain'Open

Would it be a good idea to place the [domain] field under the [column] field to make the process of adding columns faster? 

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Add application name to error logOpen

The database event log shows you which database, type, server etc the request was intended for. The live error log however does not show this information. Especially on a multiple application environment it can be very helpful to have this information. I can imagine the error log works on an application level, so perhaps it would make more sense to show the application name here instead of the database name? But either would provide more insight. 

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
E
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Limit process flow variables to only show allowed optionsOpen

Process flows often requires you to create process flow variables. Currently you can select any process flow variable for the output/input parameter options of a process flow step. There are validations to check if a variable matches the required output format. I propose to limit the available process flow parameters to the allowed data types. For example: you never want to set a bit data type to a file name field. So when choosing the process variable for file name I only want to see text related data types.  

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
E
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

add error log to universal user menuMerged

I can access the process flow monitor and database eventlog directly from universal. Can we add the error log and the live error log to this as well? This would reduce the number of screens I need to trouble shoot since I don’t have to navigate to indicium to acces the error log.   

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
P
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Vertical scrollbar containerMerged

With the Universal GUI forms are scrollable which is great. However when you want to place a detail tab below a form on a screentype, the form and the detail have their own scrollbar. This limits the viewable space of the form a lot because the detail will be always using the space on a screen which makes it not a good solution in many cases.  So what I would like to be able to configure is a form with one or more details below that has one combined scrollbar. And it would be even better if it could work like the tab pages of a form so that you can collapse each detail. This way you could for example create a sales order form with the sales order lines directly below without having to worry about enough visible space for both the form and the lines. While I see the best use case as a form with detail(s) below, maybe this could even be made more generic as a vertical-scrollbar-container screencomponent so that you could create one container detail page which has several (collapsible) details combined with one scrollbar.Maybe a max height could be configured at the reference for each collapsible detail so that in case of a big list it will not become too large (this would mean the page has it’s combined scrollbar and the detail also has one itself, similar to how Microsoft SQL Management Studio shows results from multiple queries).Sidenote: I think this should only work with a vertical scrollbar since most users are not really accustomed to scroll horizontally.   Inspiration screenshot of how something similar works in Netsuite: 

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Arie V
Community Manager
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Text fieldOpen

A question I am getting more often of my clients is whether the Software Factory support an information text field. This is a field that contains an informative message for the users.Currently the Software Factory only supports these message in tooltips and Helptexts. But often you would like to set up a text to inform users. This text should be displayed on a specific position on the form. It is kind of like a regular. However this field does not have to be stored in the database. And it should only display a text (HTML text).So it is kind of a HTML field. Currently you can set up an expression field and insert a hardcoded HTML code in this field. But often you would like this field to show a text based on the language of the specific user.Therefor it would a great feature if the Software Factory offers a field that will display a label and the content of the field, which is an HTML text that can be configured in the translations part of the Software Factory. This will allow you to configure a specific text in the correct language.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
T
Rookie
Tolboom JeffreyRookie

Idea for helptext in universalMerged

Hey Community, For our partner were looking for an easy way to convey more guiding information on how to use the application. One part of the application is for external use and has to be focused on the usability. What would help us immensely is the ability to create information buttons where we can put the extra information about a field when the label just isn’t enough. An example on how we would like to see said button is presented in the image below:Would love to hear your ideas on this topic. With kind regards,Jeffrey

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
E
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Show mandatory status and domain type in data migrationOpen

When adding new columns you also have to set up data migration. There is however no indication in this screen which columns are mandatory or what the domain type is. Adding a column to show the mandatory status and domain type would make this screen easier to use without the need to switch between data model and data migration. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Text or Binary response bodyOpen

For Protocol-independent system flows we need a more easy way to for making multi purpose API ‘s that can respond with Text or Binary variables.For example to create a single API that can respond with text format like XML and JSON as well as with PDF and XLSX.

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Remco
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
A
Warrior
avanderveldenWarrior

Menu order in Universal GUI - option to put groups on topOpen

As it works in the Windows GUI, it would be very helpful for users if groups & items can be ordered on the most efficient way instead of forcing groups to be set last within a group.  

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Remco
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
R
Hero
RolandHero

Print (PDF) files on Linux platformOpen

Currently printing files is only possible from Windows. To increase platform indepedence I would like to see file printing implemented on Linux as well.Follow-up for: 

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Remco
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
M
Thinkwiser
MartinThinkwiser

Execute PowerShell Scripts via IndicumOpen

As a developer I want Indicum to support the execution of PowerShell scripts so that I can use them in process flows for automation. 

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R
Hero
Forum|Forum|1 year ago

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