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Warrior
BramGWarrior

Execute control procedure from process flow step screenCompleted

During the construction of a process flow, process steps must be adjusted regularly. If you already have code attached to these steps, you will often see that the GUI generates an error message because the parameters for the process procedures have to be generated again. If that is the case, we need to look at that process step to see which process procedure is attached to it, then look it up in control procedures and re-generate the code groups and execute the generated code. It would be nice to be able to do this directly from a process step, so we don't forget these actions and run into frustrating errors in the gui. In addition, it would also be nice to be able to do this from the process parameter (or process flow/design) screen, so that when a new process variable is created, the code from all steps in the process flow can also be easily re-generated and executed. I understand that the above solution might be a bit short-sighted or that there is a solution that fits a bit better and I would love to hear it! But I think it is clear what irritations I am trying to expose.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
J
Thinkwiser
JordyBaasThinkwiser

Task to copy Filter/Search order numbers from column order numbers.Completed

Currently you can only copy between filter and search order numbers. It would be really neat if we can copy the order numbers from the column order numbers.This is because sometimes when you change the order numbers on the columns the filter/search order numbers wont change with them and the filter popup gets really messy. And it's annoying to manually reset these filter order numbers. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Ester
Moderator
EsterModerator

Jump between SF screensCompleted

Hello dear Community readers, In the upcoming release of 2023.1 we expect to technically change the way screens are opened for every screen that used the ribbon to select a project and version (so almost all SF screens).A side-effect is that is it now possible to automatically (read: with process flows) open other SF screens without losing the connection to your selected project and version. I could think of a few places where this is very helpful, for instance to switch from data model to subject with respect for the table that you were working on.My question to you is; where would you like to use this the most in the Software Factory? I would love to hear your ideas! Greetings,Ester Product Owner SF & IAM

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Notification if another developer already has opened Code externally in SFCompleted

In the project I work on it happens that both my colleague and I happen to be working in the same Code template. Most of time we communicate about what we work on at what time, but sometimes it happens that we work on the same long piece of coding.It would be nice if I could get a notification or visible indication if someone else opened the code (externally). An alert icon next to the 'Open externally’ buttonExample of Alert icon next to ‘Open externally’ button 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Include duration of actions in smoke testCompleted

With the release of the 2023.1 version of the Thinkwise Suite a new feature was introduced, the Smoke Test. I would like to utilize this feature and allow it to do a quick performance scan.Since it's actions will require the opening of screens, it could help identify possible performance issues within an application. In order to so, it needs to store the duration of the steps which are executed.Could this be implemented in the Smoke Test?

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Display module column in role screenOpen

At the moment you can assign a role to one or more modules. An IAM administrator can manage roles per module.In the roles (management, Software Factory) screen it is not possible to see to which module(s) a role is linked nor can you use a module to filter the roles which you would like to edit in the role screen.I would really like to have an extra column in the role screen (first column) which contains the modules to which the role is assigned. If a role is assigned to multiple modules, just put all the modules in this column and use a “,” as separator. Also include this field in the combined filter.Having this in place will allow me to remove the module name from the role name.

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
B
Warrior
BramGWarrior

tooltip for disabled tasks/detailsOpen

Hello, we prefer to disable tasks for users rather than hide them completely, so that a user knows that the task is still present, but not applicable to that particular record. However, it is currently difficult to indicate WHY the task is not available. Sometimes this is obvious and can be inferred from the name, but sometimes you would like to offer a user more information. We would like to be able to provide a tooltip to a disabled task (or detail) either through a context procedure or through translation objects or in some other way, so that we can inform the user why the task or detail is disabled. The context procedure would be best, as the reason why a task/detail is grayed out can be multiple, which are defined in the control procedure. Translation objects would work, but is not preferrable because then we have to describe ALL the reasons in the tooltip, leaving the user to figure out for himself which reason applies to him at that moment.

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
M
Thinkwiser
MartinThinkwiser

Copy process variablesOpen

For most process flows (and subflows) I use a standard set of process variables. I would like to have a "copy process variables" function, similar to "copy columns" when editing table columns, so I can add the whole set of parameters at once instead of adding them manually one by one.

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Support for a set of CSS settingsClosed

After Tuesday's session around CSS, it became clear to me that there are quite a lot of items in the Universal UI that can be styled. Currently any set up CSS could break after a new release of the Universal UI. For most of the style able items this is to be expected. However, it would be great of Thinkwise could (temporary) support a default set of custom CSS items. For example, the form group header font and coloring. This support can be dropped when these setting become available in the Software Factory.This support could even be as simple as just mentioning in the release notes that previous set up custom CSS for this item will break in the release.

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Erik Brink
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
JeffreyM
Rookie
JeffreyMRookie

Filter without dependency on the previously selected filterOpen

Currently, we can use a filter form to filter for values that occur in the dataset. If filtered for a specific value, the set of values in the filter form will be filtered in addition to the dataset. As a result, you must first remove the value in the filter form, which in turn causes all the data to be displayed unfiltered (and thus the values in the filter form as well). Only then you can enter the new filter value. We would like to be able to configure that the values in the filter form are not filtered based on the selected value in the filter form. The values presented should then depend on the original dataset, and not on the dataset currently being looked at. The set of values then becomes a "unique" set of data that is refreshed again with each filter action, based on the original dataset.Without any active filtering all available dates are shown in the dropdown box.After selecting a date and submitting the selection other options are no longer available because of the previously filtered value. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
AndreKemmeren
Captain
AndreKemmerenCaptain

Formatting of JSON files in Document Previewer UniversalOpen

We are saving interface messages to file storage and when using the Document Previewer in Universal we get a unformatted string without syntax highlighting. Our workaround is copy pasting the content to Notepad++, it works but ain't pretty. Would be very nice to have a JSON formatter and syntax highlighting build into the Document Preview of Universal.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
B
Warrior
BramGWarrior

Disable unit testing on productionOpen

At this moment it's possible to run unit tests on a specific database and server configured in a runtime config. Running unit tests on Production (and sometimes even Acceptance) can be pretty tricky. If the unit test were to fail due to an transaction mismatch, the transaction might not be rolled back, which can result in serious data loss.  To prevent this from happening, maybe its an idea to define if running unit tests is allowed on a runtime config level. And off course make sure this is blocked when a developer triggers unit tests via this runtime config.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
J
Rookie
Jason Philip A MorteraRookie

Combined filter with search conditionOpen

Hi,I was looking for a way to for the Combined filter to have a "Starts with” condition, but we have notice that the condition column was not implemented to the combined filter.Only the Filter and the Search have the condition column. It would be nice to have a Condition field on the Combined Filter just like from the Filter and Search Regards,Jason Philip

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
tiago
Captain
tiagoCaptain

Disable mouseover popup from text areasOpen

If you have a text area field (memo field) and you have a lot of text so you need to scroll, there is a popup on mouseover.  This is such an annoying popup, because it makes it impossible to read the information in the field, because in the popup everything is plain text and it covers completely the text in the text area: It would be awesome if we could use the textfields.   

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Freddy
Thinkwiser
FreddyThinkwise Local Partner Brasil

Standard API for combo elementsOpen

I would be great if the combo-elements can have a default API call to fetch translations for element ID's. 

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Freddy
Thinkwiser
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Add validation(s) in regards to access based on lookupOpen

One of the validations that I am currently missing, in regard to configuring roles, is a validation that informs you as developer of task/report parameters and table columns that are marked as granted but are not available. This scenario often is a result of changing the lookup table or lookup value. In that case the rights will be reset to not available, while the parameter or column is still granted.It would be of great help if the Software Factory could detect this issue during the validation run. Because often you are unaware of the fact that your change has broken this lookup and therefor these rights.The result is often that this issue is only detected in the final phase of acceptance testing or even worse, after pushing the new release to production.In summary I would like to have 3 additional validations:Column is set to granted but lookup is not available Task parameter is set to granted but lookup is not available Report parameter is set to granted but lookup is not available

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Input mask on fieldsOn the backlog

To ensure data is stored in the database correctly and consistently we have to use code to fix user input. It would be great if we could put input masks on field so the user has a visual clue what to put in and how to put it in. Also this could lead to more consistent data insertion. See:

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
H
Thinkwiser
Henk-Jan van LaarThinkwiser

Overflowing multiline field in UniversalOpen

My users complain that when a multiline field contains more text than can be displayed, they don't have the magnifying glass in Universal to open a pop-up of the field. The field can't grow either, so they have to scroll but are never able to see the whole message in a single moment.They do however get a tooltip with the whole text compressed and in a smaller font size, which is also not very useful, if the field had a magnifying glass or a more useful tooltip, the app would work a lot better.Maybe when a magnifying glass has been enabled on the domain disable the tooltip?

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Freddy
Thinkwiser
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
K
Thinkwiser
kenterweemeThinkwiser

Combined filter in Functionality screen should include table names of assignmentsClosed

Control procedures can be assigned to multiple tables. Usually these are more generic procedures e.g. a default to set a date field to today (default_set_today), or a layout procedure to make a field mandatory (layout_mand).Finding these control procedures can be difficult as they don’t include a table name in their name. When copying a table name from the application and then pasting that name in the Functionality search bar then does not provide the right result.Alternatively we have the Code Overview screen, but this can be slow to load and displays (only generated) full program objects instead of control procedures.Can't we include a column in the Functionality screen, that displays all tables that the control procedure is assigned to?This can then be assigned as a filterable column by the combined filter, and decrease the time required to look up what control procedures are connected to the table/screen you are working on.This new column would be updated every time an (un)assignment is done so that it would always be available, also when the project version is not yet generated fully.Using this approach would also encourage developers to create smaller chunks of code, which could be an extra incentive to create unit tests for these smaller chunks of code, providing a higher unit test coverage.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Marius Korff
Captain
Marius KorffCaptain

Support for .webm files on Thinkwise CommunityOpen

To be able to easily share things you’ve made or explain what is going wrong on the community it is handy to be able to upload screengrabs.This is currently done by uploading still screenshots or gifs. Gif files are very limited in length due to the file size and low picture quality.It would be great if we could get support for webm files. 

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
M
Sidekick
Mark van BenthemSidekick

Filtering in resource scheduler like in a gridOpen

We are currently using the resource scheduler to plan work orders for employees and the resource part of this scheduler shows many employees.If we switch to a month, week or day view, a combobox appears above the scheduler in which you can select one or more resources (employees), but in the timeline view this combobox disappears. The only way to filter the employees in the timeline view is by using the filter in the menu of the right mouse click and there you can use a contains or something similar. What I would like is the ability to select multiple different employees just like in the combobox that appears above the other views.More user friendly woudl be to have the resource part of the scheduler work exactly like a grid view. Where you have the filters and sort options above the column in the header. That way I can also filter on additional columns that I have visible in this part of the scheduler.Would that be possible? 

1
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Arie V
Community Manager
Arie VCommunity Manager

Encrypt data always with latest KeyOpen

Since TWP 2023.1 it is possible to store different Pool user credentials, provided that data protection settings are configured in Indicium's appsettings.json. The Encrypt/Decrypt process actions provide great potential to secure our own data too. However, the current behavior is rather tricky: Indicium will generate a new Key every 90 days, but in order to decrypt data that is encrypted with an older Key we need to keep all old Keys.As a result the Docs contain below warnings, but these Docs are not necessarily top of mind of IT Operators. Also, 10 years from now we would have 40+ of such Keys, some of which more than 10 years old. That might trigger IT Operators to clean up the Key vaults. As such, I believe the current setup poses a serious and hard to manage risk that old Keys will be lost at some point. IDEA: every time Indicium triggers creation of a new Key, all Encrypted data must be updated with the new Key and the old Key should automatically be deleted afterwards. This will ensure we only need to safeguard the most recent Key and will significantly reduce the risk of lost data.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
R
Hero
RolandHero

Lookup with dropdown and auto complete in filter formsOpen

It would be convenient to have a dropdown and autocomplete inside filter form fields when the field has an assigned lookup. This would make it easier to fill in a long value correctly and would make ‘equal’ searches more feasible.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
M
Thinkwiser
MaartenThinkwiser

Process flow validationOpen

I ran into the problem that all of my settings in my proccesflow and task were correct however the task in my processflow did not output the variable into my process variable. The reason why this was happening is because the await result of my task was set to No. This caused the report not to wait till the task was done and get a parameter to print my report. I would like to get a validation that im using a process action after my task/ report and that the followup action has a variable which is not waited for in my next action.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago
Harold
Apprentice
HaroldApprentice

Close only model specific documents when switching branchOpen

 In the Software Factory (2023.1), when I switch branches I get the following message and when executed all documents are closed:  Most of the time I don't want this to happen, because I also have my Requirements, Taskboard etc. documents opened, prefiltered, sorted. Closing these documents will result in me opening the same documents again and doing the prefiltering and sorting again. I suggest that only model-specific documents will be closed or I have options to choose whether I want to:close all documents, close all model-specific documents, or do not close documents

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|3 years ago

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