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Thinkwiser
Boudewijn

Remark as 'starter' for helpClosed

At a limited number of locations, eg. table and column, the SF allows to post a remark on the intended use of that object. Often I just copy that entry verbatim to the help field for the same object. It is little trouble to do by hand, but it would be nice if the SF copied the remark to the translation-object/help-field by default as a starter.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Jeroen van den BeltAdministrator

Setting for confirmation when a task has completed successfullyOpen

This idea focuses on a new setting for tasks. This settings would allow you to indicate whether you want to receive confirmation that the task has run successfully after its execution.For some tasks you just want to be sure that they have been run completely and successfully. It would also be ideal for situations where you work on some other things while the task is running. You will then be notified when it is completed.Currently, this can be achieved by writing additional code or including the task in a process flow. I would prefer to have a formal setting in the model to do this.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Martien Bakker
Rookie
Martien BakkerRookie

Conditional layout in dropdownOpen

I would like to have the option to colour items in a dropdown. something like a conditional layout in a table column.e.g. to express a preference in wich items to choose from the dropdown first (green items are the prevalent values, yellow are next, red are last)

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
mperrott
Hero
mperrottHero

List bar menu is enforced to use groups even with 1 page under itOpen

Expectation is that if it is a single page is under a group that we have the page elevated, to eliminate too many actions on the menu itself. User does not need to go from group dropdown to click on single page of the group. It needs to elevate the page in place of the group and no dropdown.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Captain
Roy van UffelenCaptain

Menu item at main levelMerged

With menu list and menu treeview you always have to have at least a group. Usually this is fine. Unfortunately there are situations in which a specific menu item is requested to be directly clickable, without first having to open the group.This seems currently impossible, but would be a nice addition.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Captain
Roy van UffelenCaptain

Add default value type expression or script to Data conversionMerged

When adding data conversion it would be great to have other options than only adding a constant default value.For the develop environment this may be sufficient, but when setting it through to other environments you lose the option to look into the database and see which constant value is appropriate.Being able to have expressions you can at least determine an appropriate value. Being able to add a script, you even have the option to add a dummy record and reference that one. This particularly when a foreign key field changes to mandatory.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Thinkwiser
Boudewijn

Mundane tasks helper tasksClosed

The SF tries to help me in many ways to quickly get on with my work. One area that still takes a lot of copy/paste or manual typing, is writing SQL. Either for templates of checking stuff on the database interactively. I get repetitively SQL insulted by typing - yet again - the full semantic key in a join of three tables somewhere at the bottom of the data model hierarchy. Why is that? It is not because the SF does not know which columns I want to join; 97% +/-3% of the time it is the full key that those tables share. The problem is that I can not tell the SF to write a query skeleton for me without me instructing the SF so via SQL. What I want to do is: select four tables click the 'write join clause to clipboard' button paste the generated 'select t1.*, t2.*..tn* from t1 join t2 on available keys... tn on available keys' in the SQL editor of choice in the dialect configured for this project. Of course I also like to have an insert- and update statement in the same manner, with all columns mentioned and defaults filled out (might be as comment). The tasks could be made available in the data modeller. In that case the join-generator could take in account the references that one highlighted.I may have a draft of half this functionality that works on the system tables of DB2 instead of on the SF.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Gijs
Thinkwiser
GijsThinkwiser

Base versus work projectsClosed

9 out of 10 times when creating a new project we create a work project. when people are new to the SF it can be very confusion to have the option 'work or base' project. Would it be an idea to remove this option when creating a new project? Every project you create will be a work project. When you like to create a base project you can go to the variant in the advanced menu.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
A
Sidekick
Amel RamulicSidekick

Domain control buttonDeclined

An idea to make a domain control type that is a button.At this moment i'm using a check box instead of a button.  

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R
Captain
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Add Theme, Default Menu and Language to Runtime ConfigurationsClosed

Can 'Theme', 'Default Menu' and Language be added as optional fields in Runtime configurations in SF, to test various themes and menu's during development more efficient?

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
B
Thinkwiser
Boudewijn

Modeling of entity life cycleClosed

Almost every entity in a system has a life cycle, either explicit or implicit. Usually the life cycle is implemented as a status column, with a domain and elements. It is not directly obvious though, which column implements the life cycle, which states are possible and which database values mean that an instance of the entity is active, for example. It happens that related entities have inconsistent statuses. Those discrepancies can be resolved in code, but add complexity and make it hard to understand what happens in the application. I propose a standard tab in the data model viewer that allows to describe the life cycle of an entity. Building on that, layout, default and context functionality can be modeled because the SF now has knowledge of which column implements the life cycle. Besides that, the business process modeler can use this information to define which process applies to which part of the life cycle. In the process flow designer it can be used to model, rather than program, conditional steps.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Skip read-only fields, when leaving field or column using then Enter or Tab keyOpen

I wish to have an option to skip all read-only fields, after entering a value in a field.In some scenario's the tab key must be pressed multiple times to reach next fiels.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
mperrott
Hero
mperrottHero

Having a Home Button in Universal GUIOpen

We need to have a Home button in the top ribbon of the Universal GUI to be able to return to the initial login splash page or to a predefined default page.The problem is when having the option to Hide Documents as enabled, means you cannot see the opened pages and you cannot close them. If those are not visible to close them, you can’t really see the initial login splash page at any time after login in.The requested solution: 

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Showing Domain of selected column in Path Location screenClosed

What I miss from time to time is what domain a selected column uses in the application. I would like to see that in the Path Location screen. Can that be made available? Adding Domain field between Column and Context 

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E
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
R
Superhero
René WSuperhero

Remove the options section at the loginCompleted

I would like to remove or hide the Options section in the Universal GUI.For our end users it's not relevant and only raises questions. I'm aware that it can be set to read only ("loginOptionsDisabled": true), but that isn't enough.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Jean-Paul Maduro
Rookie
Jean-Paul MaduroRookie

Remove dropdown white space in universal GUICompleted

At the moment when you open the dropdown menu the first option is a white space, but we do not want to see the white space in a combo/dropdown menu.From a user(s) perspective: A user would click on a dropdown menu and see only the data field which are selectable. The white data field won’t be presented.BeforeAfter 

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Automatic refresh upon activating a documentMerged

Currently the Software Factory offers several options to automatically refresh data on your screen, such as the following:You can set the auto refresh based on a specified time You can refresh it by implementing a processflow that upon activating a specific document the document is also refreshedThe first option is an option which is pretty simple to configure for multiple screens. The second option will cost you allot of time, if you need to set this up for several screens. I keep running into cases where I need to implement the second option for allot of screens. Therefor I would like to request a checkbox for the second feature on the table (variant), similar to the checkbox available for refresh option one.So in summary, I would like a checkbox on table/variant level to automatically refresh the table when activating it as a document.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
szonnenberg
Thinkwiser
szonnenbergThinkwiser

HTML5 input validation with the pattern attributeMerged

In every application there is some kind of data input validation needed (with regular expressions). The only options we have for data validation in the SF are defaults and/or triggers. SQL support for regular expressions is quite limited. Adding data validations in the SF feels cumbersome to me.Why don't we make use of HTML5 input validation with the pattern attribute on the input tag. We get full support of javascript regular expression and it's much less work to add data validations. The validation can also be blocking, so the user can't submit the form/data if the data is not in the correct format. The validation message displayed to the user is also way more intuitive then a pop-up message from a default or trigger:  

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Arie V
Community Manager
Arie VCommunity Manager

Modeldriven custom in-line Field validation messagesMerged

With the Universal GUI come great visual features, one of those features is the in-line Domain min/max and Mandatory field validation in Universal. In addition to those standard validations we would like to display Modeldriven custom in-line Field validations as well. Compared to alternatives like the snackbar and pop-up this in-line field validation message serves end users much better as attention is immediately drawn to the applicable field(s). Imagine having a domain for an email address: we always want to validate this email address with a regex: [a-z]*@[a-z][a-z]*.[a-z][a-z]*. We want to do this for every field with this domain and we want to show a message that the email address provided is not correct. But what if we can put the regex in the SF behind the domain together with a msg_id?Then when a user enters an invalid email address the message with msg_id provided in the domain_validation will show up (even with parameters such as col_id_transl) and the field will get a red border so the user knows instantly where the error occured and what is wrong.We can also imagine that we get a validation that we cannot model and we have to write code for, we could maybe add parameters to the layout procedure:@col_id_validated int@col_id_validation_msg_id msg_idIn the layout procedure we can put a @col_id_validated to 0 if we want to raise an error, this way the GUI knows to put a red border arround the field specified and the user cannot save the record, optionally you provide a @col_id_validation_msg_id to show as an inline message to the user.It relates a bit to another great idea “Validate field input value without using a default/layout/trigger”, this idea adds how the Universal GUI should then display the validations.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Option to disable details and reports when a subject is emptyMerged

The same option as was added in the 2020.01 release of SF for tasks ('Enable task in empty subject’), would be nice for details and reports too.        

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
mperrott
Hero
mperrottHero

Placing a Change Password in the Account Menu in Universal GUICompleted

This is for Universal GUI.As a user I would like to update/change my password while already logged in the application.It would be useful for users to have that ability provided to them in the Account menu. 

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
P
Warrior
PimWarrior

Translating domain elementsCompleted

From time to time we want to show the translation of domain elements in combined strings. For the time being there isn't really an option to get the translations from the SF (except for some laborious dynamic code), so we tend to translate them hardcoded (eg. case when 1 then 'male'...). To us it would seem to make a lot of sense to have a function that gets the translation like the GUI would show it. So something like dbo.tsf_get_translation @language_id, @object_id (or smth. like that). Now it would also be great if we could ask the GUI what the current language is set to...

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to separately define a Font to Dimension Column names and Row valuesClosed

What I noticed is that I can only define a single Font to alter the field text but that means the dimension columns and values share the same Font. I rather have the ability to make the Column names Bold and the Values regular. Dimension Column names and Row values share the same FontCube fields are defined as Dimensions and set as Row fields (first 4 fields)

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
L
Thinkwiser
luukschoutenThinkwiser

Visibility active prefiltersClosed

If you want to keep the screen as clean as possible, it is possible to hide the prefilters. To alert the user to an active prefilter, the suggestion is to give the prefilter button in the ribbon a background color (like the one below, when hovering over it), when at least 1 prefilter is active. When checking whether a prefilter is on, you must also include your own prefilters (eg UP). A hidden prefilter (even if it is active) is not included in the selection. In addition, I understand that in the Universal GUI there is the possibility to place (all) prefilters behind the vertical 3 dots. I would also like to see the above principle again by displaying the blue line under an active prefilter under the 3 vertical dots if at least 1 prefilter from that list is active. 

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E
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
E
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Move the application header to the left so the RDP session will not block the application nameOpen

This one might sound trivial but when working remotely it can become quite annoying. When using an RDP session the RDP bar will be set in the middle, you can move and resize this, but there is no way to change the standard. So once you close the session and reopen it's back in the middle. The problem with this is that it is blocking the application name. So Several times a day I have to move the RDP bar to show the application name. It would be helpful if the application name was not in the middle but somewhere on the left. Now on default I get this:  And have to move the bar to get this: If the application name was on the left I would not have to do this, several times a day. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago

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