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gariensThinkwiser

process action - barcode generatorOpen

There is a mystic black and white creature within the Thinkwise ecosystem. It's name known to developers as ‘WebServiceBarcodeGenerator’, well there goes mystic.. Bad jokes aside, this is a powerful feature for the type of applications which are build within the Thinkwise ecosystem. Think of warehouse management systems or supplier portals who need to print customer specific labels. Therefore, I would like to propose the idea of making this a process action. What does it do? It can generate barcodes based on several input parameters. One parameter that holds for all, is the text that needs to be presented in the barcode. Type of barcodes:Code 128  Input paramaters width add whitespaces to left/right (quietzones) Returns type of file [png/gif/jpeg] (binary) Datamatrix  Input paramaters ModuleSize Margin around the matrix type of datamatrix SchemeAscii SchemeAsciiGS1  (Default) SchemeAutoBest SchemeAutoFast SchemeBase256 SchemeC40 SchemeEdifact SchemeText SchemeX12 Schema type Symbol8x18 Symbol8x32 Symbol10x10 Symbol12x12 Symbol12x26 Symbol12x36 Symbol14x14 Symbol16x16 Symbol16x36 Symbol16x48 Symbol18x18 Symbol20x20 Symbol22x22 Symbol24x24 Symbol26x26 Symbol32x32 Symbol36x36 Symbol40x40 Symbol44x44 Symbol48x48 Symbol52x52 Symbol64x64 Symbol72x72 Symbol80x80 Symbol88x88 Symbol96x96 SymbolRectAuto SymbolShapeAuto SymbolSquareAuto  (prefered and default) Code39 and Code39 extended  Input paramaters width height Returns type of file [png/gif/jpeg] - Binary QR Codes  Input paramaters pixels per module reserved Returns type of file [png/gif/jpeg] - Binary  

Theo Neeskens
Thinkwiser
Theo NeeskensThinkwiser

Showing current action/progress during a Process Flow without using a percentageOpen

As a Process Flow can have many decisions and loops etc it is impossible/difficult to give the User a progress in percents or even “step N of M” in a generic way.But I, as the developer, know where and with what content I could inform the user of the progress. I might have a process action A that takes 5 seconds, followed by a loop where a certain 2 second process action B is executed for all 3 relevant records.I would like to be able display messages:-- Executing A -- (1/3) Executing B for Customer ABC-- (2/3) Executing B for Customer DEF-- (3/3) Executing B for Customer XYZCurrently I cant use tsf_send_progress for this as it is not available in a Process Flow. (If it were available I would have some trouble faking a percentage). I don't want to reengineer the whole thing into a big task template just for this reason.And I also can't use tsf_send_message because that requires user input.I need something to display a popup message that does not require user input while processing continues. And I need to use it from code, as there I know how much processing needs to be done and what is currently being processed.The solution could be one or more of these:a new option to define a message for the start and end of a process action. It will be displayed with a button while processing continues. a new option on the Message and tsf_send_message to specifiy that there will be no button on the message and that processing will continue. a new option on the Message and tsd_send progress that works in a process flow and maybe only shows text and not a progress bar (or a sweeping one, that would be nice!) something else that solves it.

Use 'open lookup' as a start action for a process flowOpen

I would like to use the open lookup action (clicking the lookup icon) as a start action for a process flow.This would allow us to guide user actions when they click this icon.We often find that users click this icon while editing or adding a row because the lookup column did not display the object they needed. So they open the lookup and often need to disable a prefilter to see the rows they needed. Our users complain that this is hard to understand and to much of a hassle.With a process flow we would be able to automatically disable prefilters when they open the lookup, making the entire process more intuitive. Using a process flow for this allows us to configure which prefilters should be disabled and which may remain active.Implementing this also opens up all kind of nice features since so many things are already possible using process flows. We could also configure it to send a user to a form in edit mode so they can immediately add a missing row without any extra clicks for example.To illustrate how this feature could help, I have an example we are all very familiar with:Lets say I’ve been asked to review code in a branch that currently isn’t active for me. The ‘Branch’ lookup column doesn’t contain my colleagues’ branch so I open the lookup:It’s still hidden by the prefilter, which I need to disable to find the branch. This particular lookup is quite slow for us so this entire process is slightly infuriating.It would be very nice to immediately have the prefilter be disabled by a process flow so I only have to wait once and to save me a click.