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htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

Keep tables in memoryCompleted

I would like to be able to indicate which tables should be kept in memory in order to improve the performance.

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Ester
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Image slideshow screen type componentOpen

For example, for insurance companies it is important to look at photos to make an accurate judgement whether or not the company should pay out insurance money. Or for a webshop that sells printers it is important to show the customer what the product looks like. Currently we can kind of make something like what I will suggest here (in combination with a list and the document viewer) but it's not exactly like it.What I picture is something like this:Picture slideshowHow I picture this in the Thinkwise software (pun intended), is that this would be a Screen type component.A table “Product” with a detail table named "Product photos” should be created. The screen type should be attached to the “Product Photos” table and will show all photos from a single product. The way it should determine which column to use for the image slideshow is to find a column in the table that has an Image control. Uploading photos can be done by either making a Task or maybe even through the screen type component.What do you think about this idea? Let me know 

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Michael
Thinkwiser
MichaelThinkwiser

Possibility to tell model to hide/disable a task when no row is selectedCompleted

I would like to have the ability to tell the model to hide or disable a task when you do not have a row selected. Now when you create a task that needs variables/values from a table you need to write a context to hide/disable the task when you do not have a row selected. This happens when you start with a empty table for example. It will save time to just have to tell the model to disable/hide the task when you do not have a row selected. In some instances you do want to be able to open the task (for example to create a record), but most tasks are related to the tab task parameters you enter.

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Remove reference from model tickbox active by defaultDeclined

When removing a reference from the data model you have the tickbox "Remove reference from model”. By default this tickbox is turned off. Would it not make more sense to have it active by default? Most times if you remove the reference from the design model you also want to remove it from the model it self. 

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Moderator
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
R
Hero
RolandHero

Task to copy table columns into task as parametersMerged

Quite often I create table tasks that contain the primary key columns of the table as its parameters. I would like to see a task that copies these columns from the table into the task (mandatory and default values included) and optionally also create all the table task settings for me (table name and table task parameters).

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Jeroen van den Belt
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Warrior
PimWarrior

Support with conversionsOpen

We are in the situation where quite a lot of developers are working together on a project that is actively being used by clients. This means that between versions the data always needs to stay intact. Now the problem we have that with some model changes, conversion scripts are forgotten to be made. Although some situations are caught by the ‘data conversion’ module, some situations are missed. One situation is where a new reference with integrity is made, this could lead to corrupt data. Another one is where domains are changed, values might me changed, or deleted, right now there is nothing that notifies us of such situations. It would be great to have a module or validations that help us find these situations and solve them before they become a problem

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Warrior
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
P
Warrior
PimWarrior

Refresh on closing windowOpen

We have a number of situations where a detail is opened through a detail tile, this opens a new tab every time the detail tile is clicked. Most of the time however we feel it would be better if the existing tab would be changed to the then selected row, keeping the relation between parent and child window just like details behave in ‘normal’ windows. This way it is possible to open ‘detail’ windows which can be dragged to another screen and still function like details. This way it would be possible as well to let process-flows respond to closing an opened window when that window is the child of some parent.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Mark van den Berg
Moderator
Mark van den BergModerator

Change wording of validation "Suggested columns with undecided sensitivity"Completed

For those of you who don't know, there is a feature in the SF that automatically highlights columns that might contain privacy sensitive data. This works based on lists of words that it checks for in the column name. For every field in the database there is the option to decide whether it contains sensitive data or not, but especially for these suspicious fields it is recommended to make the decision to automatically anonimize the data or not.However, the validation that brings this to the attention of the user, is called “Suggested columns with undecided sensitivity”. I would like to change the wording of this to “Columns with potentially privacy sensitive data have not been reviewed”. Although I am not a native speaker I think this makes more sense to the user, but more importantly it increases awareness for AVG/GDPR compliancy.Thanks for voting if you do.Mark

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Mark van den Berg
Moderator
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Excel style filter enable/disableOpen

Currently the Software Factory offers no setting to enable or disable “Excel Style” filtering. Whether this option is enabled, is determined based on the Filter and Sort settings. I would like to enable or disable “Excel Style” filtering regardless of the Filter and Sort settings.For example: I have a row which display an amount or margin. I would like to sort on this column. I cannot allow “Excel Style” filtering for this column, because the amount of unique values exceeds the amount the “Excel Style” filtering can handle, the result is an application freeze. Therefor I would like to be able to disable “Excel Style” filtering.

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Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
K.Bakkenes
Captain
K.BakkenesCaptain

Show info of the conflicting records when deleting a row is not possibleClosed

Deleting a record is not possible when the record is linked in other tables (unless ‘cascade delete’ is set). The GUI will show the following error message when this situation occurs.The error message doesn’t clearly mention which records are causing this problem. A user would like to see the specific records that are linked to the row. This error could occur in a lot of screens when ‘cascade delete’ is OFF.A solution would be to create specific errors per table. But this would result in a lot of INSTEAD OF DELETE triggers and a lot of (TSF) messages.I’d rather see the GUI solving this issue with the knowledge of the metamodel behind it and showing every entity with the look-up value of conflicting records.

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Henk Nicolai
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Theme variantsDeclined

Within the Software Factory you can create variants for lots of things, but not for themes. I often have separate themes for windows, web, mobile and universal, to tweak the little things that just look better on a certain platform. Or use different themes for the DTAP environments, to make it extra clear that you are in development or test. Now I have to copy my 'base' theme, which works just fine. But when I want to make a change to something that is identical in all of my themes, I have to manually go through them all. I would like the ability to create theme variants, that work just like the other variants in the SF: always look at the base, only adjust the differences in the variant.

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Marjolein Verstraten
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Rename TW deployer executableOpen

Currently when downloading a TW Suite upgrade, the downloaded folder contains 2 TW deployer executables: twdeployer twdeployerGUI I find it confusing that the executable, that starts the deployment tool, is currently the twdeployerGUI. Based on the names, I would expect that the executable, which I have to use, is the twdeployer. However this executable is used to start the deployer while using command prompt. Therefor I would suggest, change the name of this executable. So for example twdeployerCONSOLE or twdeployerCMD. If any of you has a better suggestion, feel free to post it as a reply to this post.

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Tom van Druten
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Slider UI controlOpen

I'd like to use a slider as an user interface control. In this way, I could configure the column/domain to have a certain range and increment.

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Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
G
Rookie
GijsLijnsveltRookie

Nesting functional requirements in the SFCompleted

To get a good visual structure in the requirements and to increase maintainability it is necessary to be able to nest FR's. When describing a functional requirement about for example a new attribute in the logical datamodel, it is often the case that there are other requirements that are directly linked. For example: when creating a relation input in attribute X is mandatory. By nesting these requirements the maintainability increases, because if the attribute is not needed, by deleting the main functional requirement the nested requirements are deleted also. The same in copying requirements, nested requirements are copied also.

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
E
Sidekick
Edwin SaanSidekick

Mobile APP show numeric keyboard when numeric lookupOpen

When using a numeric field as lookup in a table with a numeric ID, the mobile APP default comes up with the alphanumeric keyboard and users always need to switch to show the numeric keys on top of the Alphanumeric keyboard. It would be great if the APP 'knows' that a numeric input is required and default shows the numeric keyboard.

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Sidekick
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
B
Thinkwiser
Bas van den HooffThinkwiser

Set focus on the next empty, and mandatory form elementOpen

Currently I use ENTER to skip all the elements in a form, I rather use TAB + ENTER (for instance) to set the focus on the next empty and mandatory element. Hopefully the image below gives a better understanding of the idea. Especially when there are multiple form elements and tab's, users could save a lot of time entering data.

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Thinkwiser
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Opening a Tile item directly as Pop-up screenCompleted

I would like to be able to open a tile item as a pop-up screen with a single click. For now, I have to click it, drag it out of the tab bar to a desirable place and then press full-screen. For context: The tile menu has a tile item which opens the Search Engine. With this engine, the user is able to search up products and more. Then by using drag-and-drop, the user can drag the product to his shopping cart to add it. In this example it is always desirable that the search engine has been opened as a pop-up screen so the user can drag product from one place to the other. As a developer, I would like to be able to configure this in the Software Factory. As an user, I would like to be able to open any tile item as pop-up screen by right-clicking the tile item and then selecting 'Open as pop-up'. Edit: It's possible to open a tile item as pop-up screen by holding the ALT key while clicking the item. However, this is not common knowledge among users. Edit 2: Maybe Floating screen is a better name to use

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Sidekick
Mark van BenthemSidekick

Have a lookup for display and a lookup for input.Closed

There are situations in which we have a regular table containing for example all services and a linking table, linking services to for example objects. When I want to add a service to a record in a third table that already contains an object then I would like to filter on these objects and only be able to select services that are linked to that object. Now this is very easy by making this linking table the lookup table for the service. Sometimes we also use views as a lookup, where the view enables us to filter on multiple complex conditions for services to select from. Now when a service suddenly doesn't comply to these conditions and would drop out of the view then the display of the service would be empty. Afterall the service isn't present in the lookup table anymore. However I would very much like this service to still be displayed correctly. I would like to name one lookup (the view) to select a service from and one lookup (the regular table containing all services) to use as the source for the display-value. In this case the service can disappear from the view, but still be visible in my application, possibly with a tooltip or color signalling that there is something that needs attention.

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Robert Jan de Nie
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Make templates with assigned parameters safer to useOpen

When a template has an assigned templates paramater your template code will look something like this: select 1 from [parameter] In a small piece of code the parameter is obvious. In a large code template this parameter is less obvious. Now it's very easy to break this logic and setting a hardcoded value to this parameter. If you always work from template this should not happen however, we live in a world of copy/paste so accidents do happen (especially in a large chunk of code) To make template parameters safer to edit i suggest the following two changes: during creation add a validation. This validation will give a warning if a template has no parameter set but the parameter is assigned in the assigned templates. In this case someone probably broke the template parameter logic. In functionality - templates give some kind of indicator that a parameter is being used for the template. Now you would only know by looking at the assigning screen and selecting the specific program object in assigned templates.

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Robert Jan de Nie
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
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Thinkwiser
Boudewijn

Extension to debug-screen: process flow deeplinking to code overview in SFClosed

The debug screen for the GUI has seen some improvements over the last few additions. Can I ask for more? Can the objects in the debug screen be turned into hyperlinks that deep link to a relevant section of the SF? I realize that for that to work as an hyperlink, the SF has to run via the web or perhaps the universal GUI. Would a helper program (such as AutoHotkey) make it possible with the current SF in the windows GUI?

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Thinkwiser
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to open specific subjects via right click menu in the GUICompleted

In the project I'm working on we have a search engine to search for products and other resources. By using drag-and-drop we can drag it from the search engine to the desired place which can be at many places inside our application. It would be convenient if I can open the search engine (as pop-up screen) with the right click menu and assign a short-key to it. That way I can open the desired screen easily. Something like:

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Frank Wijnhout
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

User interface control for similar recordsOpen

Just as on the community, I'd like a UI control that searches for similar records. For example: if I enter an issue title and there are records with similar data in that specific field, let me see those records to prevent me from entering a duplicate record. On the community this works perfectly: All credits to @Bas van den Hooff for this idea!

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Jasper
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
htimmermans
Captain
htimmermansCaptain

Add specification notes to specification textCompleted

For those who use Design specifications in the SF (2018.3), for each specification line one or more notes can be added. I'd like to see them notes merged in the "Specification text" form like shown below. Print the notes in a different color and/or font to see the difference between a specification line and notes made on that particular line. Perhaps also the posibility to show or not show the notes (checkbox). Finally, why not using the full width of the form?

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Anne Buit
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to set the time it takes the Combined filter to start filteringDeclined

EDIT: I now see that there's an application specific extended property, only available for applications running via IAM. But I would like this to be screen specific. At one screen I want to be able to enable it and at other ones not. And also working for application run via SF. Currently the Combined filter starts filtering after one second and in a is this changeable. In some cases for let's say typing in productcodes or other types of codes that are somewhat difficult, an user would like to have a while before the Combined filter does it's job. Probably even want to prevent the Combined filter from automatically searching unless the 'Enter'-key has been pressed. I would like to be able to set the time it takes for the Combined filter to start filtering the rows in the list and also have the option to disable the automatic filtering per screen.

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Frank Wijnhout
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Separate color for detail tilesOpen

Often I have white tiles in my application, because my backplate has a lot of color. But I want to use detail tiles in my (mostly) white screens, but detail tiles have the same color as regular tiles. I'd like to be able to set a divergent color for detail tiles.

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Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Forum|Forum|6 years ago

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