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Harm Horstman
Superhero
Harm HorstmanSuperhero

Overview of hotfixes in Docs or TCPClosed

Could a page with an overview of all hotfixes be added to the documentation portal or TCP? Now the only way to determine if hotfixes are all installed is to download the complete set from TCP and compare it with the records of the table hotfix.

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Jasper
6 years ago
Thinkwiser
JordyBaasThinkwiser

Using the functionality weaver for expression fieldsDeclined

The functionality weaver offers a lot of benefits for writing and maintaining code:Offering dynamic weaving. Code history. Code review and managing who wrote which code. Validation while executing the query on the database. Changing code without syncing to IAM.These benefits do not apply for expression fields. Expression fields are widely used but the support for maintaining them is very limited.My idea for expression fields 2.0 is as follows:New codegroup and program object type: EXPRESSIONS. New type of program object: EXPRESSION. Naming: exp_<table_name)_<col_name>. For every program object of type EXPRESSION a function is generated. PK colums are given as parameters to this function. Templates are used with these parameters to return a value.  The GUI executes the function instead of the expression query specified on the column. The expression field query on table “col” is no longer needed and can be discarded since calculated_field_type = expression generates a program object.Let me know what you guys think.  

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Jasper
6 years ago
Kevin Horst
Thinkwise blogger
Kevin HorstThinkwise blogger

'Create project version' could be more user friendlyCompleted

A new Thinkwise developer was creating his first project, using the e-learning. After deploying his datamodel and making a few changes in the User interface he wanted to create a new project version. Sadly here it went wrong.  He used the Task ‘Create project version’ instead of ‘Copy project version’, expecting it to create a new version of his project. After a while he found out that all his work was gone and didn't knew what caused it. Maybe we should rename the task or make it a bit more clear that it is used for creating a new empty project version. This is not something you are not going to do many times, during development.  Any suggestions?

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Jeroen van den Belt
6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Ability to assign parameter text to Task confirmation messageClosed

I use a confirmation message on a delete task in my application to inform the user that the delete will delete every underlying record of the record that the user tries to delete. When validation my application I see the validation 'Task confirmation message without parameters’ and tell me the following:  ‘The user does not get any indication what the task will do when he is asked to confirm or decline the task. Add a message (with parameters in the translation).’ The only problem is that I can't select any value for the parameter if I would use one, so I'm left with approving this validation to make it go away. If I could select a column in the Task screen in the Software Factory that would be given to the message as parameter, that would make me able to make the message more specific and more informative to the user. Then I could change 'Do you want to delete this record and all underlying records’ to 'Do you want to delete  and all underlying records’ with being the value of the column selected in the Software Factory.

3
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Refresh subject after finishing task that runs in the backgroundOpen

Either with use of the process flow or standard functionality I would like to be see my subject refreshed after a background task (task with Await result = No) has been finished. Currently I have no other option than to refresh the screen myself or put in an automatic refresh; both not ideal. The task is updating statuses and I would like to be able to see the progress in real-time without user interaction. Maybe introduce even a tsf_send_refresh function?   

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
6 years ago
Robbert van Tongeren
Thinkwise blogger
Robbert van TongerenThinkwise blogger

Indicium empty columnCompleted

When you request something from indicium (ie a table or subroutine) and a column is empty, then indicium will not send the column with the respond. It would be nice if there is a setting per request if you want the empty columns to be sent or to be hidden.

1
6 years ago
Moderator
Erwin Ekkel

Change the Prefilter column filter condition standard to equal toCompleted

Currently when creating a prefilter the standard filter condition for a prefilter column is contains. I think it makes more sense to make the standard equal to. Since most times you want to filter based off a domain value. And also the contains has bigger implications on performance and should therefor not be the standard.

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Jeroen van den Belt
6 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Ability to change splashscreen progress bar colorCompleted

I would like to be able to change the color of the progressbar. Currently it's always Thinkwise-blue, but when designing a custom splash screen for a customer this blue isn't always the best option. Being able to adjust this color from within the IAM would be a nice improvement!

2
Jasper
6 years ago
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
Arjan SollieThinkwise blogger

Filter in tree componentMerged

Currently when user uses a filter within our tree component, the GUI will only display rows matching the filter value. I would like to tree component to display all the parents of the row matching the filter value and the rows matching the filter value, instead of only displaying the rows matching the filter value.

2
Jeroen van den Belt
6 years ago
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
Mark JongelingSoftware Architect

Connect conditional layout condition & prefilters to domain elementsOpen

Currently I use conditional layout on a Status column and if for some reason I change my domain element database values, I have to change the conditional layout conditions too.   So I got the thought, why can’t we connect it straight to a domain element? My column import_message_status has a same-called domain with elements for each status. If I could select an element of this column's domain, that would mean any changes in the domain will also affect the conditional layout condition.  Example: Let say if I change the Done status from value 5 to 6, I only need to change it at the domain elements and the conditional layout condition will read that value over there instead of I need to change it at all places where I name the status column in conditional layouts.  Implementation suggestion: Column determines which domain. Type of value: (Domain) Element Value: Lookup to select which element of the column's domain In code, a join/a subquery is used to get the right db value of the chosen element

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Mark Jongeling
Administrator
6 years ago
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
Jop ter HorstThinkwiser

Process flow code functionality visible in designerMerged

We can use functionality to influence decisions in a proces flow, but from the designer it is not visible that a code template is assigned to a process step. I'd like it if a symbol was there to indicate an assigned code template. Generated symbol in a process step (quick and dirty mock-up) 

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Jeroen van den Belt
6 years ago
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.

4
Ester
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 

2
Mark Jongeling
Administrator
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.

2
Jeroen van den Belt
6 years ago
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. 

2
Moderator
6 years ago
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
6 years ago
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

0
Warrior
6 years ago
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.

1
Jasper
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

0
Mark van den Berg
Moderator
7 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.

0
Arjan Sollie
Thinkwise blogger
7 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.

1
Henk Nicolai
7 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.

4
Marjolein Verstraten
7 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.

1
Tom van Druten
7 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.

0
Jop ter Horst
Thinkwiser
7 years ago
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
7 years ago
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