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Mustafa Kazanc
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Mustafa KazancModerator
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Filter Concepts - what's your opinion?Blog

Hi everyone!In this blog I want to take you through my thought process regarding the Filter, Sort, and Search functionalities in the Universal GUI. I’m introducing a couple of concepts for which I’m particularly curious to hear your thoughts. IntroductionOver time functionality has been gradually added, each of which has improved the Universal GUI. However, we also notice that it can resulted in a more cluttered and less intuitive user interface where certain elements are hidden or not very user-friendly.Based on my own review, drawing from my experiences and comparing with best practices around Filter, Sort, and Search, I came to the following conclusion:Filters are hidden: The filtering option is not immediately visible and is buried under the … menu. Unclear status of active filters: While filtered results are shown after applying a filter, the positioning of the filter interface is not always intuitive, making it hard to find and unclear whether a filter is currently active. Sort:

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Arjan Sollie
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Arie V
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Arie VCommunity Manager
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🚀 Ideas to be 10X faster - which SF workaround to eliminate?

Compared to other platforms, Thinkwise really excels in productivity. Especially the fact that creating a Data Model immediately results in a working Application is unparalleled! One of the current strategic priorities is to double down on this development speed of the Thinkwise Platform: we strive to make every Developer a mythical 10X Developer!There are a lot of angles we can work in order to achieve that goal. As a first, we want to fix unnecessary limitation in the Software Factory (SF). This means we want to tackle those things for which you as Developer have to create workarounds to get functionality working the way you(r users) need it.There are a lot of great Ideas out there and of course we'll review the existing ones. But I would also like to call upon the Community to highlight which existing Ideas would be your priority and/or to create new Ideas related to eliminating SF workarounds (please keep it to this scope in this topic).Could you please:Reply with Ideas that would

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Creation doesn't add newly added column

When I started with Thinkwise a few years ago our team was not completely using the Creation steps the way I was taught during the training.For completeness: we usually add a column, table or domain to TW and manually add it to the db using SSMS. The problem is that it is easy to forget to add the correct constraints etc… So periodically I would delete my DEV version and rebuild the db from scratch and then compare (using Redgate SQL compare) DEV to TEST, ACC and PROD.I'm trying to correct that but I keep running into situations that I need to manually alter the existing db.I've started out with a newly generated db for branche A and did some development work on this branchIn branch B I've added a new column to a table and did some development that uses that columnNow I’ve merged A and B to MAIN and made a new branch from MAIN which I'll call branch CWhen I load the new combined branch C I can see that the new column from branch B is existing.But when I run Creation > Generate defin

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task parameter "next column" works in Windows GUI but not in Universal GUI

Hi,I finally was able to fully upgrade to 2025.1 and fix all validations that prevented me from using the Universal GUI (only remaining is the Excel style filtering 🤐).I'm currently testing one of our applications in the Universal GUI and I notice that there is a discrepancy between the Windows- and the Universal GUI while displaying, at least one of my, dialogs:Even though I’ve set in the SF that the edit_unloading (Lossen aanpassen) checkbox should be at the top of the next column it is shown not at the top of the next column in the Universal GUI.I suspect that the Universal GUI uses a maximum height for the dialog and because of that moves the  add_remark group to the next column!?Is there anything I can do to prevent this?But that wouldn't account for this similar situation in the same application: The fact that Universal choose to use 4 columns instead of 3 isn't a real big issue, I only added a “Field in next column” for the first “dagplanpartij” so the GUI is free to pick the 3

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Process flow monitor for system flows without developer mode

Hi,Is it possible to use the process flow monitor for system flows in a test, acc, or production environment? I think it only works if you are in developer mode and in all environments except DEV I do not get the option to test a system flow.How can I solve this? I am now missing the option to select a system flow and application when I start the process flow monitor.  

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Geurt
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DevExpress decimal separator remains American

 I have set in DevExpress that the amounts use a Dutch format, I also see this when I do a preview in DevExpress, but when I upload the report in the SF and generate a preview via the application, it uses the American format by default. DevExpress preview:  Universal preview: 

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SQL Database Single user mode error

Hi all,I want to anonymize data on a database. However, I cannot set my database to ‘Single User Mode’.I get the following error: I saw on that I have to set HADR to off, however I get this message: ‘Msg 40517, Level 16, State 1, Line 2Keyword or statement option 'hadr' is not supported in this version of SQL Server.’ The database is hosted on Azure. Is there a setting in Azure I need to alter? Kind regards,Rick

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Arie V
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Mark Leunissen
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Download file returns unreadable data

Hi, I am running into an issue with downloading zipped data, since it returns unreadable data.The flow I have created looks as follows: The table task sets some parameters, like the folder which needs to be zipped, for the ZIP file process action. The ZIP file returns the binary data of the zipped files in the folder. The download file action is feeded the binary data from the ZIP file. This return something like the following in my downloads:  PK V´Z«H[Ï!z A¨ 2_ROOS NV_346514_14-05-2025.pdfÔ»y<›k¿.žÎƒªª©¥h«hKX­©5®VMUMÑš‚´UCDdµ„Ô”NæbaaáEÍm 5Dˆ¥¦ªª¤‚¨YH$qž®wÿöÙ¿wŸ?öÞ篓|îOâÉýÜÏ=|ÇëúR¾sÃ|IC[ô°rAaRªèa­Ó¿œF=ô=lh¨y÷éož§5 }==OkÚ£þ}ÅThe download file returns a 0 as successfull as well as the zip file action. As you can see, the data from the download file process action does have some resemblance of the zip_file_content which makes me assume that the zipped file data is actually downloaded. However, this is not usefull for the application user. The downloaded data should be a zipped

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Mark Leunissen
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SVG icons and darkmode Universal GUI

Some time ago (few years now) I replaced all PNG icons by SVG icons because of the future Universal Dark mode that apperently flips the BW colors? At least that is what I was told. During testing of the Universal GUI I notice that when I switch to dark mode some icons are shown white on the dark background, some are partially white and partially black and most of them are just shown black on the almost black dark mode background.I ran the “Decolorize all SVG icons that contain a black fill color” enrichment but that didn't correct the behaviour.The first icon I dug into (The globe with KIN in it) was one altered (originally downloaded from icons8.com) in inkscape resulting in quite a lot of metadata.I used https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ to clean my svg but the end result is still the same: I couldn’t find a task that showed the icon all white but there is one in the menu: I have attached a selection of icons used in the screenshots.

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Visibility of mandatory fields in the Universal GUI

I've just recently upgraded to the 2025.1 version and I'm preparing the switch from the Windows GUI to the Universal GUI.I've noticed that the mandatory fields in the Universal GUi are a lot less visible than they used to be in the Windows GUI.Is there a simple way to make them a different colour like in this screenshot where I used a conditional layout (condition similar to 5 != 6) to force that this field is shown in Gold?Technically I could think of a query that automagically adds the desired conditional layout for every task field where “mandatory” is set to true to easily force this but that fielss like a very dirty hack 🙄Mainly because that is not what the conditional layout is for and it might even conflict with existing ones….

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Harm Horstman
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Unable to upload images in editable grid

We are wondering if this should already work.I found out not, for that reason we have now added a form to the detail screen, while we want a detail that exists out of just a editable grid that also allows inserts.   

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Arie V
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Theo Neeskens
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Suppress "The saved data cannot be displayed" message

My users don't like the “the saved data cannot be shown” message.And in the context of this application I understand that.The search for a Person on a screen with a cardlist and a form.If they don't find the Person they must add it.After adding the Person they get this message.But they want to see the Person they just added.I tried making a task with a process flow that replaces the normal Add button.Very simple, a task without template, then process actions for Clear Filter, Add Row (capture Person ID), Change Filter (to Person ID).Work fine, but I cannot disable the standard Add button without als disabling the Add Row process action.So this is not the solution.Then I tried without a task, starting the process flow with Add Row. But then I cannot do a Clear Filter first.So it is Add Row, Clear Filter, Change Filter.But that gives met the dreaded message “the saved data cannot be shown” again. While it IS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN.How do I accomplish this?(On Universal 2024.3)

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Arie V
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Client Application settings in IAM gives a HTTP Error 500.30 message

Hi,After I created a client application in IAM and restarted IIS I get the error below, what is the cause of this? 

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Store annotated PDF from the viewer

Hi,When viewing a PDF in Universal it is possible to create annotations like marking, drawing and adding text. As far as I can see the only way to obtain the annotated version of the document is to download it (manually) and then to upload it again to store it in a Thinkwise defined storage location.Is it somehow possible to the download the annotated document and then upload it again from within Thinkwise?

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Renée Evertzen
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Can we Use Expression to filter the result

Hallo,, Can we easily applied / use Expression on the column table that will filter the result?Example:       Status has Yes/No value, but you want to display only Yeson status column table can we use expression calculated field  t1.status = Yes?or create a virtual column to add expression? The result will only display all status that has Yes value.I'm using table not view table. any other way to filter the result without using view table.  Thank you in advance

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Renée Evertzen
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Mark Leunissen
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Mark LeunissenWarrior
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Webpage can not find document

Hi, In my application I am trying to download a file that has been stored in a folder in a local file storage location. The file storage location is configured for the environment I am on.However, I am getting the following error when trying to open the file:The column that has the storage location is indeed file_name_queue. But the file_id is null, which would suggest to me that the file is not found. The file is stored in the folder of the storage location. What could be a reason that the file_id is null? 

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Mark Leunissen
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Unit test in cp instead_of_trigger

Is it possible to configure a unit test for a control procedure instead_of_trigger?I have a CP which inputs values when a user changes them in a view. The CP does some calculation and then updates values of multiple rows in the database. I'm trying to build a unit test for this without succes.Which unit test type should i use for this case? i've tried with update statement and update handler, but without succes.

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Renée Evertzen
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Print files from Linux platform

I just read the following note in the documentation for the print file connector:PDF files can only be printed on a Windows platformIs this still the case? Because it would be a huge deal braker for platform independence and greatly hamper our efforts to switch to a full Linux platform for running Indicium and Universal services.Of course we could create a tiny application just for print jobs but that would still require a Windows machine.

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Only certain models supported when using Azure OpenAI?

Experimenting with our options to use AI tooling in the Software Factory, I struggled to even get a basic example working.We already have for other applications (none SF) some models in use on Azure. So for our experiment it would be handy to to use an existing resource and went with o3-mini.It always gave a “Unsuccessful (invalid request)” when looking in the Process Flow monitor. So perhaps the Resource Name need to include the whole url including the api-version, but that does not fit the field.Eventually we just tried another model, namely: gpt-4o-mini.Eureka! It seems this works straight away.So the question. Are the Models to choose for use with the Software Factory limited by certain types?

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Account new colleague

Could you please make a new account for a new colleague from our IT department? Her name is Robin Liu. Her e-mail address is [replaced by moderator]Thank you for your effort!

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Support for TIFF files?

Hi,We have customers that (still) scan documents to a TIFF-format. As far as I can see the default Universal viewer doesn't preview files of this type. Is there an option to view these types of documents?

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Hugo Nienhuis
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Indicium API performance - large table transfer

For BI purposes we want to make a call on the Indicium API and retrieve a large table from our application. The table has over 22 million records. We did some testing and the throughput is appr. 1 million records per 12,5 minutes, so we estimate almost 5 hours total transfer time. We want to speed up the process; it is a nightly job. But, we also are looking into transferring the data during office hours, but the gui becomes inresponsive during the process. My questionshow can we increase the performance? is it possible to create a second endpoint that will relieve the pressure on the gui endpoint? if we would upload the data to another API, would that be faster or give less strain on indicium?   

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Tejo van de Bor
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IAM User preferences not visible

hi,We have a Universal application that has a grid which needs specific column widths, for entering both descriptive fields (wide) and hours (small). In the model we set some widths in the subjects, but when the users change this in the application, I cannot find these settings in IAM, Authorization, Users, User preferences.Only when I change the sort order of a column it shows in IAM.I can manually add a user preference in IAM, and after clearing the cache this change is visible in the grid. But it seems that changes in the grid are not saved in IAM.Is there something we have to set for this to work?Thanks!

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Renée Evertzen
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Harm Horstman
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How to return a pdf report via the API

We are looking for a way to make a pdf report, based on real time data, available on the customer's website. The intention is not to show the report in an iframe, but as a download.Something like how the file API works would be great, but then a real time generated file as response.Is there a way to realize this with a GET request?example: https://.../indicium/iam/api/public_vessel_schedule_pdf?route_name=north_europe&duration_weeks=4Or will this always have to be done via a POST request?We have started setting up a system flow, but we are stuck.What is the recommended approach?

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Form is selected after search

Hi all,In our application, we have a form that is set to ‘Auto-edit’. Whenever the search bar is used and the filtered results are shown in the grid, the cursor is automatically moved to the form.Depending on the type speed, this can result in unintended changes of the values in the form. I have attached a gif of the problem. After I typed ‘Royal’ in the search bar, the result is shown. The cursor moved from the search bar to the form, where I started typing something. Can I adjust a setting somewhere to prevent this from happening? Kind regards,Rick PS: The GIF shows anonymized data.

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