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MariekeSidekick

Add conditional layout based on queryClosed

I would like to be able to add a conditional layout based on a query, like in pre-filters.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Sidekick
HJ van DalfsenSidekick

Views readonlyMerged

When creating a view, most of the times it will be readonly as most of them are not updatable views. It would be good to have a setting or a default option to make the fields readonly when defining the view in the datamodel. Will save quite some time as you now all the fields manually have to change to readonly instead of editable.

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

Multiple task bars in screen typeMerged

Currently it is not possible to add multiple task bar components within a single screen type.I'm creating a wizard and want the goto previous task to be on the left side of the screen and the next task on the right side of the screen. After placing two task bars on the screen type and saving them, there is no way to indicate on which task bar a task will be placed.Currently a single task will then be placed in both task bars. In the Windows GUI this looks likeSame task shown two times. Left & right alignment are correct, but vertically they should be on the same line. My wish is that just like details, it is possible to assign a "detail group” (or in this case maybe a task group, even though that then has a double meaning), both in the screen type as for (linking) table tasks. In this way you can indicate in which task bar a task will be placed.Naturally the vertical alignment issue should also be resolved.

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

SF - show number of items in column gridClosed

Just a small item for the column screen: a counter of the number of items, ie, the number of columns in a table.   Now I usually filter on ‘calculation type = expression’ and deduct the resulting rows from the number mentioned under ‘No. of columns’ in the corresponding table, but it seems a waste not to use the aggregation function of the SF for this. I still need to apply the filter of course to see how many columns the database has, but it saves a few clicks.  

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

Drag & Drop from GUI to an e-mail messageOpen

Unlike the title suggest, it could also be applied to drag&drop to, for instance, the windows Explorer from within a thinkwise applaction. This idea (or request) originates from a customer, who only works with the application via a browser, as they are located outside our network. The idea is great, to get a look and feel from within the Thinkwise application like you get in Windows Explorer and an Outlook email. There you can select one ore more files, drag them from the Explorer and drop them in an E-mail.  

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Blommetje
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

OAuth authentication in Process FlowsMerged

It would be very valuable to have OAuth v2.0 and v1.0 available in process flows. This will make integrations with 3rd party web API's, such as Microsoft Graph and Google, easy.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

Process action type sortingCompleted

Selecting / searching for a "process action type" is a drop-down field. The sorting of the values (English) leaves much to be desired. Is there a way to get them sorted Alphabetically? Or instead of a dropbox the presence of a popup with perhaps some extra information / helptext.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Captain
Andre te RaaCaptain

A domain setting to be able to sort by element translation or by database valueCompleted

The elements of a domain are always sorted in alphabetical order of the translation. If you want to sort based on the database value, you need to create an expression column (hidden and sorted). This will only work for the 'default sorting'. If you sort on the displayed column, it will still sort alphabetical. Another disadvantage of the work around is, that you need to specify an expression column for each table. Take for example a domain 'calendar_month' with elements: January (db-value=1), February (db-value=2) etc. It would be better to specify this once (domain).

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

Add Tables as item of Data to Default Menu in the Software FactoryMerged

One of the most used in tables in SF should be more easy to open

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

Unit test parameters accept expressionsMerged

Within unit tests it is currently only possible to add fixed values.Expressions are currently not supported here, but can be of great value. Think of situations in which you have to use the current date or the date of tomorrow/yesterday.

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Captain
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Captain
Andre te RaaCaptain

More control over the detail tabs of a cubeOpen

I would like to have more control over the detail tabs of a cube. When I select a group or a group total, the context procedure should only give the values for the group and NULL values for the other parameters. This makes it possible to control what detail tab to show.  

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

Hiding Help functionality button if not set up in Software FactoryClosed

When working with the Windows GUI there's a Help button in the top right of the application. This gets its data from the Model. While it's very handy to have this functionality, when it's not set up and thus does not contain any content, it might confuse the user.I of course recommend every developer to fill the helptexts with information the user might need and answer the questions that might raise during usage. 

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Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Kevin Horst
Thinkwise blogger
Kevin HorstThinkwise blogger

Gridview User PreferenceMerged

A user can currently (if he has the rights to do so) regroup the columns of the grid, adjust the width of fields, change the sorting and create filters. A prospect, which is a software vendor, currently offers it's users the option of creating 1 or more ‘Gridviews', which can be switched between. Our GUI doesn’t support this (yet). A Gridview is a configuration of a screen (Table, View or Variant) where you can choose which fields are shown, how large they are, what the order is, what the sorting is and which filters are active. This would be a good addition to our current UP and quite possibly the SF.

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

Let user preferences remember export optionsMerged

Hi all,With some regularity I use exports from grid (via the extra/export menu option).I can’t remember ever using the ‘export directly’ option, and the advanced options are always wrong by default.It would be a help for me if IAM would remember these settings. Preferably on a per-table basis, so that it also remembers which columns I’d like exported.Am I the only one?

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
John Sangers
Apprentice
John SangersApprentice

Flag for ChineseClosed

In GUI version 2019.1.16 flags for French, Spanish and Portuguese have been added. We would like to see a flag for Chinese added for the Chinese translation we made for our employees in China.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Frank Wijnhout
Thinkwise blogger
Frank Wijnhout

Fill out Process flow HTTP connector parameters automaticallyClosed

It would be nice when the SF fills out Process flow HTTP connector parameters automatically after entering an URL. There are applications that are already able to do that.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Rookie
Sander de RaadRookie

Better error handling IAM when connecting to closed IBM i target systemClosed

When our IBM i platform is closed (e.g. due to maintenance) and a user tries to connect from the GUI (front-end) to the database for verification purposes, this will result in a meaningless warning, this is not desirable. The expectation/assumption is, when the system is closed, this message always appears (with every SF version). After all, it is IAM that tries to connect to the target system in question. When this has to be adjusted, I expect that this is an adjustment within a procedure within the desbereffende IAM, there will have to be a better error handling regarding this point.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

New proces action to open filterClosed

Currenty on a table there is an option "Start empty with filter". We use this option in a scheduler scheduler screen, as for different users the number of rows can vary and have negative results on performance. But the majority of user only have a limited amount of resources to manage in the scheduler. So an idea to create a processflow to determain wheter we're looking at the data as a "power-user" or not and so starting with an empy filter or not is not possible in a processflow. So an extra process action would be appreciated: "Open Filter" or something like this. Also ordering alphabetically in the possible actions, or a pop-up would make life easier....

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Simulate multiple rolesOpen

Since SF suite 2019.1 roles have to be configured from within the Software Factory, instead of the IAM application. In order to test your role configuration, it is possible to set a specific role within a run time configuration. What I would like, is the option to set multiple roles within a run time configuration. In most cases you would to test a set of roles combined, instead of a single role.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Productivity metrics in IAMClosed

I'd like to measure the productivity of SF developers (for example trainees) in the IAM. Now I can check the 'use log user actions' in IAM, or use the session/action analysis, but I'd like to see their activity on a day to day basis to see what they are doing and when/how long this takes. Maybe this can be solved with some default cube views on those analysis, but I think additional functionality (like a report) could give some usefull insights. Especially for the management of trainees, this can be a usefull tool. Not to 'spy' on them ofcourse, but to give insights and a topic of conversation during review meetings.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

IAM Copy rights from existing similar object (like a field or table)Open

Not sure if I am the only one having difficulty to keep rights to fields / files consistant with the original plan when upgrading a project. But each time I add a field to a table for instance, it's a hassle. It would be a great addition to be able to select an existing field to copy all rights from. This could be achieved by either a new task or having the field editable (see screenshot). in this example I've selected a similar existing field first and selected all Rolls with reading rights. Then start the task "Assign Rights". If the Column field (Kolom) would be a dropdown for instance life would become a lot easier. A task would be much nicer. Two variants come to mind: "Copy rights to" and "Copy rights from"...

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Captain
Andre te RaaCaptain

IAM copy rights from another object (table, column etc.)Merged

I would like to copy the rights from another object (of the same type?). When you use a "negative senario" (nothing allowed, unless), then it would be easier to copy the rights from another table or column.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Thinkwiser
Roland van AggeleThinkwiser

Providing insight into which tabs are in edit mode.Closed

For users it is useful to have clear insight into which tab(s) are still in edit mode. Can this be indicated by, for example, placing an exclamation mark next to the tab or in another way?

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

Propegating domain element translations to user applicationClosed

I often find myself adding notes in code to translate the domain elements to their meaning. Sometimes that means: disable customer VPN to enable network connections to our internally hosted SF, looking up the values and their meaning, and enabling the VPN again to continue troubleshooting the end application. Would it be a useless option to generate master data tables for the user application based on the domain elements and their translations, as part of code generation? Not just as a comment in the checks-codegroup, but as real tables and data? I am aware that it is of no use for the end user that already sees the translation in the application, but any application manager or support team would be helped by it. Developers for sure would be helped, because they do not need to query the SF to find the meaning of the domain elements and instead can join the master data to find the meaning of a value. To take this a step further: combined with inactive domain elements it would allow for user maintained domain elements (*). Domain elements have the benefit of enforcing data consistency, but the drawback of needing developer intervention to extend the number of elements. Therefore I often see customers asking to revert a domain with elements to a master table with a prefilter. Imagine a scenario where domains come with built in support for inactive domain elements. The database value of the element does not have a meaning (other than for ease of mind for the developer), so when requirements describe ten elements, we would create twenty, ten of which inactive and reserved for future use. Now when the application manager wants to add a new domain value, it will be taken from the reserved values without need for changes to the database. (*) user maintained domain elements still require developer intervention to update the name and translations of those 'new' elements in the SF/model. That is a solvable problem.

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

Code templates in multiple codegroupsClosed

It often happens that code templates can be shared between different code groups. An example of this is a try-catch template that can be used for tasks as well as procedures, or a check that can be shared by context and a task. Idea: Templates not per code group but generally weave.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago

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