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Thinkwiser
Boudewijn

Enable transfer of authorisation from one IAM to anotherOpen

There used to be an option to export the IAM configuration to file and import it into another IAM.The function was useful to guarantee identical user experience from one OTAP-environment to another; the files could be rolled out with life cycle management software.There is still documentation mentioning similar functionality, but the corresponding option in the task is missing. Writing to file is not supported.Often the available setting will work, but when it is not possible to connect one IAM to another, things get tricky.As a cumbersome work around it is possible ask for a backup of one IAM, restore it in the other environment and register it with TCP and then sync the settings. 

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Thinkwiser
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Sidekick
efitskieSidekick

Assign task to double click action on row in gridCompleted

I would like to execute a task when a row in the grid is double clicked. We have implemented a sort of wizzard functionality. The user is presented a grid where the user select a row and must click the ‘next’ button to see the rows for the selected parent: This wizzard has 6 levels to complete the selection. The selection process would be easier and more intuitive if the user can double click the row and the task ‘next’ is executed.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
K.Bakkenes
Captain
K.BakkenesCaptain

Default values in GUI functionality ‘import/update’Closed

In EVO, the application that we (Acto) develop with the SF, a multi-tenant solution is implemented. One database can be used by multiple companies and potentially with multiple administrations per company. A user works on one active company and a corresponding administration. This information can be requested by a task. This data is hidden in all screens and automatically filled by default procedures. The import and/or update of records doesn’t take account (not as default) of the company and administration data. As a result: Look-ups within the import and/or update, where the company data is part of the primary key, aren’t shown correctly. Preferred solution: Don’t let the columns in import and/or update be dependent on the grid or form components, but specifically mark them (visible for import) for the import and/or update functionality. Provide default values for columns in the import and/or update functionality. (In this case the company / administration a user is working on)

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Blokkie
Rookie
BlokkieRookie

Deprecated flag on tables and columnsOpen

I would like to: ...be able to mark individual tables and individual columns as deprecated; ...be able to switch the visibility of deprecated tables and columns on and off in the table design view; ...get warnings on using deprecated tables and/or columns during the validation step of the creation proces

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

Automatically set Layout/Default/Context/Badge checkbox in Subject (and other places)Open

When using the Assigning section in Control Procedures, if the user connects a template to a program object, it automatically sets the Layout/Default/Context/Badge checkbox in Subject → Performance to ON. This also applies for Tasks for example.ExampleBut it does not turn it off when all templates are disconnected from the program object. Nor does it turn On when a template is assigned through the use of a SQL Control procedure or Dynamic model procedure. So I would like to see a trigger that will either turn on or turn off the checkboxes in Subject → Performance when a template is connected or all are disconnected. This will prevent procedures from not being used even though the developer intents to.

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
K.Bakkenes
Captain
K.BakkenesCaptain

Use uploaded images/icons in maps HTML pop-up templateClosed

Users can upload their own logos or icons for a relation (company or person) within the software. We’ve tried to visualize these social media icons and logos in the maps component HTML pop-up template. The icons are retrieved in an underlying view based on the data in the table ‘relation’ and added as an url to the HTML body of the pop-up. Unfortunately uploaded icons are not shown via the Windows GUI with Indicium. Also because the icons are uploaded to a fileshare where only the application pool user has read/write rights. It would be nice if uploaded logos/icons could be viewed within the Maps HTML pop-up template.  

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K.Bakkenes
Captain
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
John Lunenburg
Sidekick
John LunenburgSidekick

Unable to assign multiple work items to the same developer in SFClosed

The task Assign work item (assign_work) in SF doesn't update the Assigned to column ( assigned_to_developer_id) for all selected records. It updates just the record with the focus.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Superhero
René WSuperhero

(Mass) Update in web guiCompleted

In the Windows GUI there is an feature to update multiple rows and columns at once: I would like to have this feature also in the Web Gui.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Superhero
René WSuperhero

Override delete and copy with a custom taskMerged

TL;DR: We want a custom task bound to the standard copy and delete functions (in the ribbon and buttons).As we're tempting to roll out the software without having to explain the functions in the ribbon, we continuously encounter the same issue that end users don't understand the copy task and the delete task (why it's blocked or doesn't work as expected). It's a difficult one...Please consider we're an ISV and targeting users on which we don't want and can train in person. We hope by changing this our users more often get a 'as expected' experience.CopyingThe copy button creates by default a new record based on the selected record. This is in a certain amount of cases very useful. For example if you want to copy a purchase order line, adjust some cells and continue. There are also a lot of situations where the meaning of the copy button is interpreted differently: Users expect a copy of a record including the (partial) details. As example you could imaging copying a purchase order: The user probably wants to change some values such as a order date, but remain the details.I'm aware that this does something with the consistency of the Copy button. But explaining the difference also is not easy: Why is there a task to copy defined, and a generic button copy? End users without knowledge of the Thinkwise platform don't know, and probably will never want to know.We would like to override the generic copy button with a custom task implementation. The task doesn't "Add" a record immediately, but the task pop-up shows up instead.DeletingWe apply the default 'no action' model. Applying a cascading deleting model is a bit tricky, we prefer not to do*. This causes that in all subjects with details, the default delete is disabled and there's a task defined. This is confusing for users: Why is the delete button disabled, and is there a task doing exactly the same? (As for a end user point of view: why don't you enable the delete button in the ribbon?)Another major benefit of the task, is that it's currently multi row supported (multi row task execution). This has a great benefit on performance, where as the generic delete does remove 1-by-1 and can be painfully slow.We would like to override the generic delete button with a custom task. This task must be multi row supported and has a custom implementation regarding what to delete. I could imagine a customer dialog entering some parameters could be useful for some use cases.*: Yes, you can probably change your complete model to 'cascading delete', but I think it's dangerous to do. In fact, the SF also does not apply a cascading delete, probably with a reason?

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Thinkwiser
Henk-Jan van LaarThinkwiser

Resource scheduler graphic and layout featuresOpen

For context I usually have very few resources per user, but it can grow op to dozens at certain times My resources have very short names (5 characters usually) The things that bother me at the moment: Resources are a small font that I can't seem to be able to change, so I get a lot of empty screen real estate The height of appointments are static and Word wrap on appointments is not available on Windows I think the resource scheduler would benefit from some of the following more graphic and layout features: Dynamic font size on resources, or maybe a specified font and size which could be done in the extender an/or theme Dynamic appointment row height (accounting for overlap with other appointments) Word wrap in all GUI's

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

Validation - 'Screen type is not used' needs to exclude used screen types with breakpointsCompleted

One of the default validations of the Software Factory is to check if some objects of the model are no longer in use. This includes the screen types. With the introduction of the Universal GUI and Breakpoints this validation needs to be updated because the screen types with specific breakpoints are never in use, but instead chosen based on screen type of the subject and the resolution of the screen in use. This results in a big lists of screen types ‘not in use’ which is clearly not the case because they are variations of screen types which are in use.    

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
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Apprentice
Kirsten VeenboerApprentice

Influencing default date when opening calenderOpen

At some point, Zeeman asks employees to enter their birth date. This can typed or selected in the calender. By default, the current day is selected when opening the calender. This is even so when part of the birth date is already typed in. In this case it would be nice if the selected date is some point in the past (f.e. 30 years ago, 1-1-1990), this would minimise the scrolling needed for all employees and therefore make the calender more useful.   

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K
Apprentice
Forum|Forum|5 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Enable prefilter screenCompleted

Currently prefilters can only be accessed throughout a table. I would to be able to see all prefilters within a grid and be able to change them throughout this screen. Having this will enable me to check all prefilters queries at once, or edit them with mass update. Can the tab prefilters be enabled within the full model screen?

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Dennis van Leeuwen
Hero
Dennis van LeeuwenHero

Running background tasks without tasks panelOpen

 It would be nice if there is a extra setting No (no task panel) to disable opening the running tasks panel.    The reason we use tasks with the setting Await result = No (background task) is because users can continue their work while the task is in progress. Right now when a task is set with the option "No” the running tasks panel will open upon running. In our case the pop-up slows down the speed of the process and lowers usability. Software Factory | Task > Settings > General > User interface ​​​​​Running tasks panel 

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Dennis van Leeuwen
Hero
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Placeholder text on fieldsOn the backlog

Currently we as developers can only force the users to put in characters in a certain way. Sadly the user might not know how to correctly put in values so we have to resort to either messages, column translations or other methods to show him or her what and how to put the value in. What I would like to be able to do is set an placeholder text on fields so the user can 1. see what needs to be entered and 2. how to put it in. See:

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Ester
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Captain
Roy van UffelenCaptain

Deploy selected program objects to databaseClosed

Location Business Logic > Functionality & Full model > Program objects Situations When assigning a template of a control procedure to a program object you can go to the result-tab and place it on the database by pressing execute. You can add a template to multiple program objects. When executing it to the database it will automatically deploy all program objects in which the template is available. When changing a template I want to test it first on one program object instead of all at once. This is currently not possible. However when I decide to remove or unassign a template from a program object this change is only installed onto the database by deploying it (or changing the actual stored procedure on the database). It is not possible to see which program objects are affected and update these. It even happened that removing a template results in errors while testing the application. Wish I want to see all program objects for which a template and/or assignment has changed, but that is currently not deployed to the database. Then I want to select one or more program objects and deploy these to the database.

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Ester
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Backward traceability from model to requirementCompleted

When using process analysis and design specifications it is possible to see the model modifications per design specification paragraph. This comes in handy when you'd like to see what has been done to realise a design specification or requirement, like forward traceability. I'd like to see backward traceability as well. So when I see an object in the Software Factory, I can see why this has been created.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Vanguard
Dennis BeerenVanguard

Set chart type of cube on the field level instead of on the cube levelOpen

It would be great to set the chart type of a cube on the field level instead of on the cube level, since then it would be possible to combine line charts with column charts. See attached image of what would be possible (Excel example).

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htimmermans
Captain
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

Excel like numeric formatting in GUIOpen

I've been asked to ad thousands separators to a numeric value in the GUI, but it seems this is currently not possible in the GUI. I found an INI parameter (UseWindowsCulture) that looks like a possible cure for the challenge, but after setting this value to yes, I can't see any difference. What I'd like to see is 123.456,00 instead of 123456,00. And using the INI setting UseWindowsCulture=yes doesn't seem to care to much about the setting in the “Digit grouping symbol” for Windows. Also, even if this works, it won't do a thing for the WebGUI as far as I can tell from the INI explanation. So, if it's currently not possible to have thousands separators in either GUI, is tt feasable in the (near) future?     And to completely go wild: a bit more Excel like configurable formatting would be a great feature…  

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htimmermans
Captain
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Show SQL query in path locationDeclined

The path location screen and debug screen are very helpful. But why not combine some functionality? During trouble shooting you have to look at the debug screen a lot to find the select query that builds a part of the screen. And you also have to find the correct code (for some screens this can be 5 or 6 selects). Why not show the select code in the path location screen? This would save a lot of time during trouble shooting. 

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Erik Brink
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
John Lunenburg
Sidekick
John LunenburgSidekick

Add knowledge base of general code templates to Thinkwise CommunityCompleted

It would be nice to have a knowledge base of general code templates in the Thinkwise Community where developers can share their solutions for general development challenges. This will increase productivity and the exchange of knowledge between Thinkwise developers. You could think of default procedures or triggers for a date field or e-mail address. Or a dynamic procedure to add trace fields to a table.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Thinkwiser
Roland van AggeleThinkwiser

Show failed task call in debug windowCompleted

In the debug window of the gui failed task (or other processes) executions are not showed. In the case of a failed execution it is interesting to see the parameter values of the task. Therefore this task call should be mentioned in the list. The icon could show that the call was not successful. 

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Erik Brink
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Warrior
PimWarrior

Mandatory radio buttonCompleted

Recently we realised that radio buttons are not actually mandatory (you can click the selected value to make it null). I understand this can be a nice feature on nullable fields, but our fields are actually set to mandatory and therefore should not be able to be set to null. In order to work around this we are now creating extra code (defaults), while what we want is actually modelled already.. So what we want is that when a field is set to mandatory, the radio button applied to it should not be allowed to be set to null

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Erik Brink
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Marcel van Langen
Sidekick
Marcel van LangenSidekick

Possibility to unassign a work itemClosed

You can assign a work item to an employee. But unfortunately you can't unassign a work item. We'd like to see that this gets added, so that we can use this to better see which work is ready, and which work items are still available. 

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Marcel van Langen
Sidekick
Marcel van LangenSidekick

Full-fledged comments section on work itemsOpen

Comments are essential to refine a work item. I'm aware there is a section 'Discussion’, but this is too limited in our view. Possibilities that we'd like to see are: possibility to mention other employees (that get notified via mail) possibility to follow a work item (meaning you automatically get notified of updates made) possibility to respond to the comments of others possibility to format your comment (f.i. to distinct code from regular text)  

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Marcel van Langen
Sidekick
Forum|Forum|6 years ago

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