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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Give a caps lock is activated warningOpen

Please add a warning if the Capslock key is active on the login screen. 

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Disable or hide copy buttonOpen

 @add_button_type tinyint output, -- 0 = enabled, 1 = disabled, 2 = hidden.@update_button_type tinyint output,@delete_button_type tinyint output,@confirm_button_type tinyint output,@cancel_button_type tinyint output,It would be great to have a @copy_button_type.At this time it seems it is only possible to disable the copy functionality on a whole table under Subjects > Settings > Permissions > Data manipulation.

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Marius Korff
Captain
2 years ago
Robert Jan de Nie
Thinkwise blogger
Robert Jan de NieThinkwise blogger

Remove 'Code review required' setting and require it always.Open

Code review is one of the most important methods to improve application quality. Code review, in my opinion is not an optional step. Therefore I think we should remove the option to disable code review. Non-reviewed code should always throw a validation message.For the people flying solo, at least use the AI code review feature…

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Balazs Szeder
Apprentice
Balazs Szeder

Enable CRLF Support in Snackbar Messages and TooltipsOpen

Hello everyone, I came across a feature that could enhance our user experience: adding CRLF (Carriage Return Line Feed) support to snackbar messages and tooltips.Currently, snackbars do not support creating new lines (as far as I am concerned), which can make messages with multiple points difficult to read. While popups do support multiline text, they can be too disruptive for simple notifications. Example:Instead of a single-line message in a snackbar like this:'’This is an error message because: - this is missing, - and this, - and this'’ We could format it as:'’This is an error message because:- this is missing- and this- and this'’ This format would also be beneficial for tooltips, providing more detailed information without overwhelming the user. Benefits:Enhanced Readability: Users can easily read and understand messages with multiple lines, improving overall clarity. Improved User Experience: Maintain the non-intrusive nature of snackbars while making them more informative. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback! Kind regards,Balazs Szeder

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Warrior
BramGWarrior

Change detection causes screens to jump back to selected recordOpen

When the screen is refreshed bij change detection, scrolling through the list is pretty frustrating because the screen refocuses on the selected row. This makes it almost impossible to look at other records while the change detection is refreshing the screen. We would like to see that change detection refreshes the data, but not refocuses on a selected row, so that an end user can keep scrolling through data whilst the change detection is refreshing the screen.

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Default Time zoneOpen

Add a possibility to flag a time zone as Default.This to avoid assigning new users to a wrong time zone

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Add more Universal Theme options in the SFOpen

Universal made its introduction a while back and it feels like the theme options in the SF have been forgotten. Universal themes lacks almost all theme options compared to the classic theme type.In the latest Universal GUI release there was an update on the custom CSS. However there is little to none documentation on this. Of course it is preferred that these changes are done via the SF instead of an CSS file. 

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Hero
2 years ago
Hero
RolandHero

Option to allow selected row to move out of sight after refreshOpen

In a new barcode scanning screen we’re constantly adding items to a list by scanning many barcodes in a barcode view. This barcode view receives updates at every scanned item which results in an insert statement to a table via an instead of update trigger on the view. The effect is that every action with the barcode scanner results in a new item in the list. New items are added from the top of the list.The problem is that as soon as the selected row reaches the bottom of the grid it stops going further down at consecutive scans. New items are still added but they aren’t visible without scrolling up. Because we want to minimize mouse actions during the scanning process to maintain workflow this effectively keeps new items invisible.This issue was already described in https://community.thinkwisesoftware.com/questions-conversations-78/barcode-input-2822 where an animated gif illustrating the issue can be found as well.The solution I would like to propose is an option in subjects to allow for a selected row to appear outside the view of the grid after a refresh. With that option enabled the selected row would effectively keep moving down in our case and new items would keep appearing at the top of the grid.Please note that I tried a process flow to move the row selection to the top after every refresh. This is not an option here as it moves the cursor away from the form in the barcode scanning tab. Scan actions need to be possible without workflow interruption and with minimal user action in the end-product.

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Hero
2 years ago
Ionut
Warrior
IonutWarrior

Web Connection Parameter Handle multiple typesOpen

It will be great to have the support for other data types than string for parameters in Web Connection.As a short explanation, we tried to upload some files to OneDrive through API using Web Connection, the thing was that whatever we tried the file was corrupted, the problem seems to be that we were passing a variable varbinary and the only accepted format is String for Web Connection Parameters.You can check the starting point of this idea on this page:Thanks!

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Dave Bieleveld Starcode
Vanguard
Dave Bieleveld StarcodeVanguard

Ability to stash branch changesOpen

New idea in consultation with Dave, written by Mark Jongeling:I would like to be able to stash any changes I made to a branch similar to how Git does it: Git - git-stash Documentation (git-scm.com)One way of achiving this is an additional option in the Revert branch task with which I can indicate that I want to revert my branch to a point in time, and that the current state of the branch is stored, or Stashed; for example as a new branch. This new branch is in essence a copy of my branch with all the changes, then after that branch is created, reverting my original branch to the indicated point in time. That will leave me with two branches; the original one which is reverted and the stashed one which has all of the changes I originally made.At a later time, I can then merge the stashed branch into my original branch, effectively applying my changes again.  Old idea:Long story short, I'd like to be able to set the origin model version during the creation of a merge sesion.Casus:Let's say I have a branch A. I've made some development during the period X->Y. Let's say I want to park my changes by creating a branch B and reverting branch A to timestamp X.Then, when I eventually want to merge branch B into A, the merge session wrongly assumes that all my changes are deleted in branch A, because branch A is relatively in the past to branch B. So we want to have both model A and B to have a same base origin model version for the merge. That way, the merge sees the delta actions for branch B as additions from B->A instead of A->B. 

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Hide lookup popup button in read modeOpen

I found a related topic but no idea:  I understand that this could be done using custom css, however, it would be great to be able to toggle this from the SF. This option is also preferred by on of our clients.This is not just a visual option, since users get confused by clicking the lookup icons and expect to be able to select things, which does not work since the form is still in read mode. Hide the highlighted iconThere could be a checkbox to hide lookup icon in read mode on one or different levels:Theme Table ColumnI would personally turn it off everywhere, since it confuses users.

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

When using AI model enrichments, I'd like to be able to set a languageOpen

Currently the AI model enrichments only seem to generate in English. In a project at our client we use the Dutch language, which unfortunately makes the current implementation of ‘English-only’ model enrichments useless.An option to select a language would be perfect 😄: 

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Screentype option to move action-bar(CRUD-buttons) to tabs-barOpen

To use the available screen space more efficiently, I would like to be able to move the CRUD-buttons/action-bar to the tab-bar, instead of having a separate action-bar.In the example I moved the action-bar/CRUD-buttons up (The filter/search could be moved up as well). As you can see, this saves a lot of space. I believe it’s still clear what table is being edited/filtered since the current tab is colored and underlined.If the action-bar/CRUD-buttons won’t fit on the screen next to the tabs, I would expect it to fall back to the current situation and be placed below.​​I’m also curious of what you think of this. I currently see a lot of empty/unnecessary space that can be used to show more data. Do you think the same or do you think this possible solution makes things unnecessarily complicated? Current Example    

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Marius Korff
Captain
2 years ago
Blommetje
Superhero
BlommetjeSuperhero

Alignment of Grid group label to CenterOpen

Hi, Is it possible to align the group label in the grid to center? Currently by default it aligns left. I think it will be more user friendly and looks better (more logical) it it would align in the middle of the groups grid columns.Any thoughts on this? Blommetje 

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Frank Junger

Exclude code from the deploy package in the SFOpen

On our development system, our standard application is developed in a layered branch model. Developed software is deployed to various customers using a CiCd pipeline. To achieve this we regularly create software code on the development system that must be executed on the development system but may never be executed on a customer system.These software parts should never be included in a deploy package. We want to be able to model in SF that certain parts of code should not be part of a deploy package. In this way, developers are triggered on the choice to be made.This is a much more elegant and less error-prone solution than including protections in the software itself.This prevents errors and damage to customer systems. 

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Apprentice
Roald HeiwegenApprentice

Enable merge tool for Conflicts When Adding Templates in Different BranchesOpen

If you modify a template of a control procedure in two branches, this will result in a conflict during merging. Fortunately, you can easily start for example WINMerge from the SF to compare and adjust the differences.If you add a template in both branches, this also creates a conflict. However, you cannot use the WINMerge button; it is grayed out.Now I have to switch between the different branches to see the differences. My wish is that it would be possible to quickly start WINMerge even when adding a template in different branches.  

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Captain
Roy van UffelenCaptain

Message at check constraintsClosed

When adding a constraint to a table you can't link this to a Thinkwise message. The moment that this constraint is triggered an error message from the database is displayed. Usually this is a message that is not as nice and informative as you can make a Thinkwise message.I'd like to see the option to add a Thinkwise message to Check constraint. And when this constraint is triggered that not the database message is displayed, but the linked Thinkwise message.I would also like to see an option to add/link table-columns to this Thinkwise message as parameters, so that these values can be displayed inside the message.

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Mark Jongeling
2 years ago
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Option to translate task buttons / add custom buttonsMerged

Idea: Make it possible to translate a task button (execute/cancel) with a custom translation for a specific task.Use case:We have a process to scan multiple products with a barcode scanner. We use a task with a barcode field to add a product, after each scan the task is executed to add the product and the task starts again with a proces flow to be ready for the next scan. When the user is done with scanning (s)he has to push the ‘Cancel’ button of the task to close to window. This is counter-intuitive for the user because ‘Cancel’ could be interpreted as if all previous scans will be cancelled. We would be prefer to be able rename the ‘Cancel’ button in this case to ‘Stop scanning’ for example.   Extended idea: make it possible to add custom buttons to a task (and hide the existing ones). 

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Jeroen van den Belt
2 years ago
AndreKemmeren
Captain
AndreKemmerenCaptain

Indicium live scrolling error logCompleted

When we want to check the Indicium log it will always download the entire log and only way to see if new entries has been added is by downloading the entire file, opening the file and visually check.It would be very convenient to have a screen that shows the last x amount of logs and automatically loads new log lines. (Like the tail command). With an optional button to download the entire file.

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Jeroen van den Belt
2 years ago
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

when untranslated show variant name in menuOpen

During development you often don't yet have translations in effect. This can be very confusing for variants in a menu. The variant is shown with the main table name. I would much rather see either the full variant name: main+variant. Or Just the variant name. To make the menu less confusing during development. Screenshot below with visible double entries.    

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Jeroen van den Belt
2 years ago
Ionut
Warrior
IonutWarrior

Ability to show additional informationsMerged

Hi!This suggestions is about adding some functionality to be able to add additional informations in different parts of the app (more details about a column, an alert in a form) things like that. Our team encountered this problem in different scenarious and the soultion was not that "estetic", we created a column where we put like a harcoded element from a domain that had a specific translation.Something specially made for that that let's you add different ways to guide the user through application with different alerts/messages will be very useful. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
2 years ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Shortcut to open lookup popup in UniversalOn the backlog

I saw that there was a great idea to close popups using a shortcut in Universal: Hit escape to close popup in Universal. I’d like to be able to hit a shortcut to open the lookup pop-up in the active column:As far as I could find this is not yet a possibility. Giving users this ability could enhance the user experience since the user would have to reach for their mouse less. It might also make data entry/selection quicker.

1
Jeroen van den Belt
2 years ago
Rookie
Henno TillemaRookie

Help screen functionalityMerged

Edit by Moderator: This idea is for Help text functionality in the Universal GUI.Original idea below:For every subject in the windows UI you can press F1 to display the help screen. In this screen the help information of the subject, fields, table tasks and reports is shown.For tasks more help information can be entered in the SF; for the task itself and the parameters. But pressing F1 at the task screen does NOT display the help screen. Why not offer the same help functionally here? 

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Jeroen van den Belt
2 years ago
Blommetje
Superhero
BlommetjeSuperhero

Hit escape to close popup in UniversalCompleted

Hi All, In Universal gui I find myself constantly and more and more violently hitting the ESCAPE key on my keyboard trying to close popups. I click on a lookup to check if I select the correct client, or whatever, and want to close it. BAM! But nothing happens. Idea; Use Escape keyboard button to close a lookup/popup in Universal gui (next to Cancel button)  Alexander (Note, I assume this is on the backlog anyway, given the win gui specs..  So it’s between an idea and the question… ‘when we will get this?’ ) 

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Erik Brink
2 years ago
Dave Bieleveld Starcode
Vanguard
Dave Bieleveld StarcodeVanguard

Select reciprocal merge as default for DEVELOP->RELEASE and RELEASE->MAINClosed

Protected branchesSince the branches RELEASE and DEVELOP are automatically protected and recognized as persistent and protected it would be nice that when the popup for “Create merge session” has the reciprocal merge as the default option (while still being able to chose to archive the branch). RELEASE and DEVELOP won’t be likely to be archived afterwards.It’ll prevent that you accidentally archive such a branch and it save a few clicks. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
2 years ago
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