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Thinkwiser
MaartenThinkwiser

Enable XML Parameter Access in Layout & Default LogicOpen

Opportunity:Our platform already empowers users to build dynamic tasks, but we can make it even more powerful. By allowing XML parameter access in both layout and default logic, we open the door to smarter, more adaptive task designs—without workarounds.Why This Matters:Imagine tasks that: Auto-adapt to their context (e.g., show/hide fields based on row counts or parameter values). Simplify complex workflows by replacing redundant "helper" tasks with built-in logic. Boost reusability—one task can serve multiple purposes (single-row edits vs. batch processing) while keeping models clean. Benefits:✨ Sleeker Models – No more placeholder tasks just to pass values.✨ Richer User Experience – Interfaces respond intelligently to data.✨ Easier Maintenance – Fewer tasks = fewer bugs and faster updates.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Jeroen van den BeltAdministrator

URL display columnOpen

IdeaMy idea is to be able to provide a ‘URL display column’ for a URL column in the SF, using another column from the same table as the display text. This could optionally be an expression column. This will ensure that URLs are displayed in a more user-friendly way and/or take up less space on the screen.Explanation / current situationWe have the 'URL' control for domains, which opens a URL in the active browser using a hyperlink.This works well, but often, you don't want to display the full URL. This could be because the original URL provides little meaningful information to the user or because it takes up too much space in your form or grid.One way to achieve this now is by creating an expression column that determines the desired display format, but this is more of a workaround than an ideal solution.

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rickwenning
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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Thinkwise blogger
Jeroen KoleThinkwise blogger

Zoom a detail to a floating document directlyCompleted

When double clicking on a row in a detail, you now will open a new main document with that detail. Sometimes it is useful when this new document becomes floating, so one can check some data on this document and the original document.  To help the user minimise mouse clicking, we would like the document to be floating directly.I suggest to make this option configurable in the model, so the developer can configure on a subject how the zoom action will be performed.For now it is a hard way to model this:for each detail one would like to have this functionality is needed:a task containing the primary key of the subject, add it as a table task, with double click on record “on”a process flow, with the tab task as starting point. A process action opening the document required, and a process action to filter the new document to the requested primary keyAlso, the main screen type of the subject should be the zoom screen type, in order to get the result needed. One even might have to create a variant on the subject to use the right screen type.

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Erik Brink
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
A
Warrior
avanderveldenWarrior

Selecting pre-filters in overflow of custom action bar - keep pop-up openMerged

If you want to select multiple filters via the overflow of the (custom) action bar, you have to open the filter for each selection. Would be better if the filter stays open till you click somewhere outside the pop-up  

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
Freddy
Thinkwiser
FreddyThinkwise Local Partner Brasil

U-GUI: Form tabs foldableCompleted

Hi. In the Universal GUI when you say in the SF to put something in the next tab it creates a new section. To have the same experience as putting something in the the next tab.. it would be nice have a section collapsable, so by default it doesn't clutter the screen and you can just fold it open when you want to see these details.  And perhaps it can come with an extra setting to have only one section open at the time or multiple.. just like with pre-filters where you can have only one or more. 

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R
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
M
Thinkwiser
MaartenThinkwiser

Pop up full screenCompleted

I would like to have an option to let a look up pop open in full screen in the Windows GUI. either with maybe a checkbox or in screen types.One of the use cases for this would be. When you would use a look up while adding a row in a table and would like to have a big overview of, for example, your products. This would be needed if your products would have minor differences from other each other and you would have to look at a big description.

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
SanderAdam
Captain
SanderAdamCaptain

Setting the size of pop up windows in the process flowCompleted

Hello everyone,We have a process flow that pops up a window. This window is very small and should be larger when it pops up.We can set the default window size of all windows and pop ups in the software factory, but we do not want all windows and pop ups in the entire application to be the same size when we set it for the purpose of one window.Can this be set per window when you select the pop up option in a process flow for opening a document?When this option in this process action is set to "Yes” it would be nice to have an option to set the size of this floating document, so we do not have to set a general size for all windows and pop ups, because in come cases this can be unwanted.

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Arie V
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
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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R
Forum|Forum|1 year 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|1 year ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

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|1 year ago
F
Thinkwiser
Frank GlazenburgThinkwiser

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|1 year 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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F
Forum|Forum|1 year 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|1 year ago
S
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|1 year ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

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|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year ago
Kevin Rosink
Sidekick
Kevin RosinkSidekick

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|1 year ago
Freddy
Thinkwiser
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|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year ago
E
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

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|1 year 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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R
Forum|Forum|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year ago

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