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Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Upgrade script should use alter table alter column where possibleOpen

Currently the Upgrade script from the Software Factory will always fully rebuild tables. This can be quite an issue when you for example need to change all your trace columns default values from getdate to getutc date. In this case all tables within your DB will be rebuild. Causing a major load and issue when executing this upgrade.In my case I was unable to run this upgrade because of the LOG created during the upgrade. It was too large, over 100GB. My fix was a manually writing upgrade script, which did not rebuild the tables but simply used an alter table alter column statement.Result was great. Script ran in under 5 minutes. The rebuild script was running over 2 hours and still not finished.I think the Upgrade script should use alter table alter column when possible. Because it is much faster and has a significantly lower load on the server and log files.A few examples when an alter table alter column would be more than enough:Changed domain of a column Renamed a column Changed the default value of a column 

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Arie V
3 months ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Task "Create merge session" should run as a background taskOpen

Currently when you create a merge session the task to create a merge session will lock your Software Factory due to the fact that is waiting for result. I would this to run in the background, since the task sometimes takes 10-15 minutes. During the creating of the merge session, I would like to work within other branches. This can only be done, if you open a 2nd Software Factory. This not ideal. If the task would run in the background, you can keep working in the same Software Factory and when the merge session is created, check the result. 

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Arie V
3 months ago
Sidekick
Edwin SaanSidekick

Add an option to highlight weekends in the background the schedulerOpen

It’s not possible to give weekend days a background. That helps planners in their overview of there planning.It now can be done in CSS, but if you could add a simple option in the scheduler : Highlight weekend days eventual with the colornumberWhen this option is turned on, the css code is added to the css file when generating the application.Or is this too simple?

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Arie V
3 months ago
Warrior
avanderveldenWarrior

Add option: execute all on code overviewOpen

Like the execute all at Functionality, add this option also to the deploy at Code overview  

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Arie V
3 months ago
Sidekick
peter.bongersSidekick

User preferences custom componentDeclined

Sending all user preferences to a custom component not only theme, language, notation of fields for use regarding the link below (theme is already send to the custom component) extend the other settings to the custom component.Styling of custom components in Light and Dark mode | Thinkwise Community

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Remco Kort
3 months ago
Thinkwiser
MaartenThinkwiser

multiple cube conditional layout conditionsOpen

I want to be able to have multiple conditions for my conditional layout in a cube view just like in subjects for a table.

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Arie V
3 months ago
Xavier de Bondt
Sidekick
Xavier de Bondt

Log session action in Universal GUIMerged

Currently, in the IAM's session log for a user with GUI Type ‘Universal’ does not show any session actions.While there have been questions about it, I never found the idea, thus I created this one.For us this would be great to get an insight into which screens/tasks are being used (and which are not).

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Arie V
3 months ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Check connection and IAM version as first actionPlanned

​ Can check connection an version be set as first action in the Sync IAM process? This avoids unnecessary waiting time if the check fails.And in addition to this, more information when the action fails, would be appreciated too. ​ ​

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Arie V
3 months ago
Superhero
Mark_Plaggenborg

Option to convert BIT to true Boolean for Web connector parameterOpen

When using a BIT data type in your product and most likely that would have a Checkbox control, it will use a capital letter as a start when you use this value as an input for the web connector:Example:{"allow_fallback_to_email": True}This will not work as lower case is expected:{"allow_fallback_to_email": true}The work around is to have something in between to convert this to a string value and then use in the web connector. I find this solution a bit much for the intended goal.Opting for a feature that enables a BIT data type to be converted to a true Boolean. How or where to have this setting (or perhaps even default behaviour) I’ll leave to the developers of Thinkwise themselves. 

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Arie V
3 months ago
Superhero
Mark_Plaggenborg

Keep state of document when switchen between "Open documents" in the menuOpen

When for example working in the Software Factory, it is not strange to swap between the multiple opened documents. Unfortunately that also means that certain states get returned to their default.Ex:1) You have the Subject entity open and are looking at the columns tab. You have moved your horizontal scrollbar to the right to see the “Context input” column. After having checked something in another document and return to the Subject entity, the scroll bar is again at the start and the “Context input” is again out of sight. Similar behaviour for vertical scrolled grids or forms.2) Another example is the process flow design. You are zooming out to make some space where you intend to put new actions and have some room to move stuff around if needed. After returning it is back to a zoomed in state to just fit all placed actions inside.3) Last example is one of the more annoying ones, which might not entirely fit in this idea as it probably has another cause. You are working on a functionality and have your template open in your IDE and the Thinkwise Workspace Listener is keeping you saved changes in sync. You deploy the current saves state and notice an error. You get back to your IDE to correct this, as the file is still opened, and now the file does not save as it is disconnected.Please keep the state of the document to what it is when leaving it to go to another document, so you continue with what you were doing there.

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Arie V
3 months ago
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Excluding quick filterOpen

Could an excluding quick filter be made that works similar to the normal quick filter but instead of filtering on the selected value, it excludes the selected value?An example use case is when you go through a list and want to exclude each type that you have viewed until your list is empty. For example when going through the merge impact in the SF.

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Arie V
3 months ago
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

SF: Set a remark to role-rightsDeclined

I would like the possibility to add a small remark to role rights. My primary use case for this is setting a remark when a role has rights to all columns/tasks/etc. of a subject except one. For the one exemption I would like to be able to place a remark so all developers know that was a deliberate exemption and why.

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Arie V
3 months ago
Sidekick
Edwin SaanSidekick

Debug UniversalOpen

I think I’m not the only one struggling a lot with the debugger of Universal. At least can you suppress the breakpoints in de database eventlog. This one generates 500 records per second and you have be really quick to trap the error if there’s one.And the WIN GUI was able to return the SQL error’s For example:  Cannot insert the value NULL into column xxxThe universal GUI gives me a Unknown Error, the message cannot be found in the indicium log. How do I know what’s going wrong. In developer mode of the browser I can see the task is going wrong but also there, the text the windows GUI is returning on a proper manner cannot be found. You only get a diarree of unreadable code. Debugging is taking me seriously more time then with the WIN GUI, and it’s very frustrating.Please improve this ASAP

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Arie V
3 months ago
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Restore prefilter status when opening a new documentOpen

For universal please make the prefilters act like they did in windows gui. If a document is closed, or a new document is opened restore the default prefilter status. In universal if i am on a screen to show all customers. I can deactivate a prefilter to show inactive customers. The next time I open this screen the prefilter will still be deactivated. Why? The default is there for a reason, it’s the most logical set of prefilters to show the screen when opening. This is one feature where windows gui is still supreme. Please change this to make the universal gui easier to use. 

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Arie V
3 months ago
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Add some indicator for database or environment in universalDeclined

At support we work with multiple version of the software factory and multiple environments. However with the introduction of universal there is no clear (default) way to distinguish the environments. In universal you can check information for which platform version you are using, but then you still don’t know which database. This was much easier to distinguish in windows gui. Can we add a setting to show the database name and platform version? I can imagine you don’t want to do this by default. So a setting that can be activated for the development environment to show the database name somewhere would be appreciated. Windows gui: (on openening the gui you can see both the database name and the platform version) Universal: No clue which database or platform i’m looking at. about does show me the platform version:  

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Arie V
3 months ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Collapsible screen type elementsPlanned

Currently within the project I work on we make use of the detail tiles on the side of most of our subjects. Like this: What I would like to be able is to collapse this element the the right side of the application so the screen has more room to work with. It should work the same way as the menu does, like I can open it by clicking on or hovering over it.This could also be implemented for elements like the Tab containers. 

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Robbert van Tongeren
3 months ago
Thinkwiser
Henk-Jan van LaarThinkwiser

Bring back hotkey for combined filter (search)Merged

In the Windows GUI we were able to use CTRL-G to put our cursor in the combined filter (search).We would love to have this feature in Universal, where the hotkey would take you to the (nearest) combined filter for the current subject.

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Arie V
3 months ago
Warrior
BramGWarrior

index optimizerOpen

When upgrading the platform to 2026.1, we waited for around two hours in total (SF and IAM on DEV) for the TSF optimizer to finish rebuilding the indexes. This was even after old branches/applications were removed in SF and IAM the day before to speed up the upgrade. At one point, we saw the slow_query_log index being rebuilt, where fragmentation was only 0.1%, containing over 5 million records. Our idea is twofold:Parameterize or hardcode the index optimization so that only indexes with a fragmentation percentage above a given threshold are rebuilt. Allow configuration in the Deployer to specify whether indexes need to be optimized. We already have a nightly job that performs this, so we would prefer to let that run outside office hours.

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AndreKemmeren
3 months ago
Captain
PeterKeerisCaptain

Support a custom html mount for Universal GUI containerCompleted

As explained in Adding extra files to Universal GUI container | Thinkwise Community, the current Universal GUI container doesn’t support adding custom html files (like Screen components | Thinkwise Documentation or Upload multiple files using the Universal GUI | Thinkwise Community). This makes it quite cumbersome to add custom components to our applications when using containers.Please add the possibility to mount a volume to /etc/universal/custom/ for html files (or include html files in the assets mount).

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Arie V
3 months ago
Thinkwiser
Henk-Jan van LaarThinkwiser

Bring back Excel-style filtering in cubesOpen

We would like to have an Excel-style filter in cubes, in the same way it works in grids.This is causing confusion with the users because the pivot grid in Universal looks so similar to a regular grid. Currently the only option is to open the filter pop-up, go to the column and use ‘in’, this is not really a viable alternative.

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Arie V
3 months ago
Ruben
Rookie
RubenRookie

Drag-and-drop sorting in menu for Open DocumentsOpen

Hi everyone,I would like to propose a quality-of-life improvement: the ability to manually reorder menu items in Open Documents and Favorites using drag-and-drop.Why this helps: Better overview: Group related tabs and documents together based on your current task. Higher efficiency: Keep your most-used favorites at the very top for quick access. Cleaner workspace: Less time spent searching through static lists. It’s a small UX tweak that would make daily navigation in the Software Factory a lot smoother.Let me know what you think! Upvote if you agree. 

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Arie V
3 months ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Conditional Formatting on Label ControlDeclined

We want to configure conditional formatting on a field that is set as Label ControlEspecially for use in FormLists

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Arie V
3 months ago
Warrior
BramGWarrior

Allow deeplinking to specific recordOpen

We’d like to have deep linking available directly in the Software Factory (and ideally IAM).In end‑user applications you can already deep link to a specific record via a process flow, but this isn’t possible in SF itself. This makes it harder to point colleagues to the exact place in the model when discussing issues or reviewing work.Why this would help:You can share a link that opens the exact process flow, control procedure, task or table you’re talking about, which makes collaboration much smoother. We already pass deep links around in Teams for process flows and error screens, so having this supported in SF would make that consistent.  Reviewers and new team members can jump straight to the right place without navigating through multiple screens. It becomes easier to keep documentation up to date guides and runbooks can simply link to the correct SF item instead of describing long navigation steps. It also helps prevent misunderstandings during development, because everyone opens the exact same object and version instead of possibly looking at different branches or outdated definitions.

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3 months ago
Thinkwiser
MartinThinkwiser

Simplify IAM User Management for Customer Access through End ApplicationPartially completed

As a developer I want to simplify the management of IAM users within my end application,so that customer access to their data can be administered more efficiently, and user creation and permission assignment in IAM are automated. We have an application that we will make accessible to customers so they can view and retrieve their own data.Therefore, users need to be created in IAM with the appropriate permissions.I would like to simplify this process. I want to be able to provide (a JSON file for example) which users I have, their attributes, and the groups they belong to, and have IAM handle the process automatically.Currently, I need to figure out which IAM APIs are available and set up a mechanism to handle this. This is time-consuming and error-prone, so I think it would be ideal to develop standard functionality to optimize this process.

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Arie V
3 months ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Element value tooltip not visibleOpen

At this moment tooltips are not visible, can that be done? With an inline button, so that it also works on touch devices. 

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Marius Korff
3 months ago
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