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Marcel van Langen
Sidekick
Marcel van LangenSidekick

Possibility to add estimation to work itemsCompleted

Like us, most companies will use estimations when working on work items. For instance, when refining during a Scrum meeting. Estimations are an integral part of Scrum and form the basis for keeping control of the project. Currently it is not possible to effectively add estimations to work items. We mostly work with hours as estimation based on the Fibonacci sequence, but other systems are used in other companies (t-shirt sizes etc.).  

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Marcel van Langen
Sidekick
Marcel van LangenSidekick

Rich text editing in work item descriptionCompleted

We'd like to have rich text editing capabilities on the Description field of Work items. Right now we feel we have insufficient possibilities to style work items in a way that make them more readable for other users (and for the author). I know the field can be enlarged using the magnifying glass icon, but that only makes the field larger.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
K.Bakkenes
Captain
K.BakkenesCaptain

Support SQL functions in default constraintsCompleted

We would like to be able to add a default constraint to trace columns using the SQL functions SUSER_NAME() and GETDATE(). It should look something like this:

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Visual warning that a new Task look-up will create a new task parameterCompleted

When you create a new reference on data model the column will become green giving you an indicator that a new column will be created, besides the tick box.   I would also like this indicator when creating a new task look-up in tasks. So my wish is to colour the task parameter green if it will be created. This way it will work the same as in data model and make the UI more intuitive.  

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

Rename Performance tab to Parameters at Subjects ColumnsOpen

For each column in a subject you can indicate whether or not it should appear as parameter in various control proceduresAs this has nothing to do with performance but only with including/excluding parameters in program objects I propose this tab name is changed. Instead of Performance it seems that Parameters or “Set parameters” is more appropriate. .

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Johan van Eijsden
Captain
Johan van EijsdenCaptain

Option "Paste" is missing in detail menuOpen

One of our customers has switched from the Windows GUI to the web GUI. One of the differences that the customer came across is that de “Paste” option is missing in a detail menu (right mouse click on a memo field).Windows GUI 2019.2.17: Web GUI 2020.1.14: Of course I told the customer that he could use [Ctrl]+[V], but he just misses this option.Is it possible to add the option “Paste” toe this detail menu somewhere?

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

Process action authorizationClosed

A client has a specific wish to be able to authorize process actions within a Process flow. The case is that there are two different roles, namely Opportunity and Assignment. Each of these roles have access to a task that changes the Status of an Opportunity.The difference between the roles is that:User1 with Opportunity role → can change the status and create an opportunity after User2 with Assignment role →  can change the status and create an assignment afterThe process flow starts when activating this task and to determine what the next action is, we would like to apply authorization. User1 should only be able to create an opportunity after executing and not an assigment and User2 vise versa.Alternatively someone would say, why not make two tasks? The problem is there are also users with both roles and they would see the same task twice so that option doesn't work sadly. The task in combination with the process flow needs to be able to alter it's course on the basis of the users’ role(s).

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

Default import to Translations and retain to next sessionMerged

By default the import options are set to “Column names are IDs” and “Data contains IDs”. When changing it in the active session to “translations”, it is retained to the next import. But after logging out it's restored to IDs again. When you often import based on Translations, it's very likely to make this mistake of changing these values (over and over again). Our end users have difficulties understanding the purpose of IDs, and I agree on that: It's something you cannot see by default as a ‘normal’ user. I would like to have: Translations are set as default selected for both header and data (or configurable) The choice for IDs or Translations is retained to the next login / session, in stead of whiping it. Edit: Cannot change the subject title, should be “and retain to next session”.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to hide fields from Import/Export functionalityMerged

This wish comes from an ISV;In the end product we have a lot of nice looking lists and forms where we make use of icons and sometimes even empty column translations. These columns we don't want to Export. Also we don't want to see these columns coming back when the user is Importing. Sadly there is no way in the Software Factory to effectively hide columns from the Import/Export panels. Export - The empty names should not be exported. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Dennis van Leeuwen
Hero
Dennis van LeeuwenHero

Column based authorizationClosed

My idea is to create the possibility to authorize a role colum based from the Software Factory and I'll explain why.   For example there is al role to add and manage the employee data including sensitive data such as citizen service number (BSN). We also cretaed a role EMPLOYEE_read assigned to all employees as face book function in the system. In the GUI columns like BSN and partner data is hidden but a role will always have "No rights" or "Full read rights" on a table. The disadvantage is that users could read the table in its entirety from the SSMS.  Role "EMPLOYEE_read" shouldn't reach sensitive data from the SSMS Database role is created with select permissions The SF knows the column rights of a role (same as the GUI) so when the GRANT select on table will be expanded with the columns the database rights are always the same as the GUI rights.   Desired situation where a user with the role "EMPLOYEE_read" cann't read the columns BSN and Salary.  

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Smart Hotfix generationOpen

Something that is still a struggle to do in the SF are hotfixes (especially SF model based hotfixes). Currently it means either selecting the procedures manually if it is a code hotfix. When making a model change (adding a prefilter for example) If there is already a new trunk version you have to do the change in both the production and development version, with all possible risks. It would be helpful if there was a easier/safer way to do this in the SF. First I would like a screen to create a hotfix version. Which would still be the same trunk version but just a subset within the project trunk version.Then I would like to be able to add a tag to an object or select an object from a list (procedure/filter on a table/trigger/ctx procedure/expression column etc..). Finally at the synchronize to iam I would like a new option: deploy hotfix. This would only deploy the changes from the hotfix to the model. And at creation - generation source code I would like the option to have generation method: hotfix. This generation method only applies object marked as hotfix, and associated needed object. For example if you change a domain on a task and mark this for the hotfix then the default needs to be created as well, even though it's not marked. 

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

Checkbox enable report when no contextMerged

For tasks there is a checkbox allowing you the auto disable a task when the context is empty. I was planning on using this for a report. Unfortunately I was shocked to find out that this checkbox has not been implemented for reports. I would really like this checkbox to be available on reports 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Jaap van Beusekom
Vanguard
Jaap van BeusekomVanguard

User preference for "open_documents" menuMerged

Universal 1.3 - “Open_documents” is growing and growing and after x hours my main menu is not visible without scrolling ;-) It would be nice to have a user preference to maximize number of menu options to show like a “Top 5” Additional options like “Most used”, “Latest”, “My custom” or “Pin” and even an option “Don’t show” makes it complete.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Rookie
LeonRookie

Resource Scheduler zoom in on day when clickOpen

Hi,I would like to add some idea's to resource scheduler. Especially during this covid crisis the calendar plays a huge part in most of the organisations, it will be awesome to replace google agenda with a Thinkwise platform agenda.   Default view month,week, day when the user clicks on a day. Zoom in on day and show on this day hours. A filter/ combobox to filter on year, months, week or day. So when the user clicks on year whole year is showing in months, when the user clicks on months all days of the month are showing.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
S
Rookie
Saskia ThoenRookie

How to start a process flow containing a message with options?Closed

I made a process flow with (only) a message with options so I can define the actions depending on the user’s response. How does this process flow start? I presumed I could just send the message and trigger the process flow with that but it doesn’t work. I want to use it in a default procedure in which I want to send a warning before deleting a row in another table. In this warning I ask ‘ are you sure?’ . When the answer is no, the process stops. It seems I cannot define a starting point in the process flow. When I use the message now, I don’t get the options in it.  It has to be simple isn’t it…...if you know what to do :)? 

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Eric Franken
Vanguard
Eric FrankenVanguard

Possiblity to overrule "Popup on each row" for a task variantMerged

I need this sometimes. The workaround is to create a seperate task with the same templates, but that is not the most ideal solution

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

Add translation objects for model extendersClosed

This simple SQL does the job, but would be nice when it becomes part of TSFDECLARE @project_id AS project_id = '[project_id]'DECLARE @project_vrs_id AS project_id = '[project_vrs_id]'INSERT INTO transl_object ( project_id , project_vrs_id , type_of_object , transl_object_id , transl_object_desc , generated , insert_user , insert_date_time)SELECT DISTINCT project_id = @project_id , project_vrs_id = @project_vrs_id , type_of_object = 13 , transl_object_id = value_string , transl_object_desc = NULL , generated = 0 , insert_user = dbo.tsf_user() , insert_date_time = GETDATE()FROM ( select s.project_id , s.project_vrs_id , s.extender_type_id , s.extender_id , property_transl = m.c.value('@property_transl[1]', 'varchar(100)') , value_string = m.c.value('@value_string[1]', 'varchar(1000)') from extender s cross apply (select cast(s.property_xml as xml) as property_xml) c cross apply c.property_xml.nodes('extender') as m(c) WHERE s.project_id = @project_id AND s.project_vrs_id = @project_vrs_id ) xml_flatWHERE property_transl = 'Translation object'AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM transl_object t WHERE t.project_id = @project_id AND t.project_vrs_id = @project_vrs_id AND t.transl_object_id = xml_flat.value_string AND t.type_of_object = 13) 

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

Model Rights: do not execute assign rights task for All Rights RolesOpen

When assigning rights in the Model Rights screen (SF 2020.1 and up) you often select all roles with the new column or parameter available. Then assign the rights to all these profiles. However, the 'All Rights’ roles are also present in this list. For these roles an error is shown : I understand the message and why it's showing but I think it would make more sense to not execute the task for any roles that have "all rights". Now i have to remove the message bar multiple times during model rights assigning. 

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
John Lunenburg
Sidekick
John LunenburgSidekick

Auto refresh not available in Universal GUIClosed

The current version of the Universal GUI is not responding to the auto refresh settings of a subject.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Blommetje
Superhero
BlommetjeSuperhero

Add vertical lines in grid based on group labelOpen

Would be nice to be able to add a vertical line based on the group label in the grid.  This way grouping can be made much clearer for users. Of course, I want to be able to set a color per group label.   

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

Deactivate old application when a new application with same alias is activatedOpen

Currently when activating a new version of an application you first have to deactivate the old application then you can active the new application. My wish is simple: when activating a new version of an application and there is still an older version of the application with the same alias active then deactivate that older version. 

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

Check if correct database is selected in generated scriptsOpen

Regularly I execute scripts generated during the SF generation process in SSMS. This is all fine, unless one has the wrong database selected… This happend to me once when I wanted to execute the VIEWS script in SSMS……. with the SF database selected. One of the first things that'll be done is deleting ALL views in the current database! As you can imagine, all kind of defects were detected in the SF afterwards, and in the end I had to rebuild the SF from the installation scripts (a restore from the previous night would result in the loss of all work that day from a couple of developers and designers).  When the script is executed on, for example, a Navision production database all hell will break loose. So my idea: generate a piece of code in the beginning of each script like below (BAS_DMS_WORK would be replaced by the SF with the projects database). I tested it in SSMS and it works flawlessly. Is this something that can be built into the SF? Will it work when running the additional lines from within the SF GUI?   print 'Check if current schema is correct'goif DB_NAME() <> 'BAS_DMS_WORK'begin print 'Fatal error, wrong database selected for projectversion!' set noexec onendprint 'Ok.... All clear, let''s continue'go-- Rest of generated script, like dropping ALL views...... This won't execute in SSMS the wrong database is selected.select * from work_orderselect * From part_alternative where part_id = 117396-- last line of the generated script-- Turn execution back on; only needed in SSMS, so as to be able to run this script again in the same session.set noexec off                  

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Freddy
Thinkwiser
FreddyThinkwise Local Partner Brasil

Task confirmation (incl. message) manipulation via defaultClosed

It would be a great addition if the task ask confirmation option, including the message, could be manipulated through the default (or layout) procedures. So if I have a condition that is OK, OK, but I want to reassure through confirmation, or is an error.  If all is OK, I don't need a confirmation, if I want the user to confirm, I can direct that. And if the message could also be manipulated I could give a informational, warning or error message. 

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Marcel van Langen
Sidekick
Marcel van LangenSidekick

Possibility to add custom fields to a work itemOpen

We're currently missing the possibility to add custom fields to a work item. For instance: we want to use it to indicate whether or not a DPIA is deemed necessary, the origin of the work item etc. Of course we can just type that in the Description field, but then it wouldn't be possible to query on that field effectively and it wouldn't be sustainable for us.

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

New Objects prefilter - objects without assigned rightsMerged

The new objects tab in model rights could be much easier to use if there was a prefilter. The pre filter "objects without assigned rights” would, like the name suggests, only show the new objects without any specific rights assigned. This way this list can actually be used like a checklist, currently i have to use an excel sheet to keep track of what was assigned. Especially when you use the child/parent rights options.   

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago

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