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Can a Universal custom component set the selected/current row of its subject?

  • September 1, 2026
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Robin Liu
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I am building a Universal custom component for a ticket subject. The component renders an Impact x Effort matrix from the DataSet received through the documented custom component postMessage context.

 

The next thing I would like to do is make interaction work with regular Thinkwise components. Ideally, when a user clicks a marker in the custom component, I want to set the current/selected row of the same subject to that ticket, so a normal Form component in the same screen type updates automatically.

 

Is there a documented/supported way for a custom component to tell Universal: select row ticket_id = 4535 for the current subject  or to trigger the same behavior as selecting a row in a Grid/Card list?

 

I know that when you have a grid, i f the current Thinkwise row changes, Universal sends updateDataRow and I could highlight a marker in my custom component matrix (Grid → Custom component). But I want to do it the other way around basically (Custom component → Form).

 

I thought about using a Go to row action, but since it is a UI action I don't think it will work if the custom component calls the API to start a process flow.

Best answer by Leroy Witteveen

Hi ​@Robin Liu,

You can kickoff a process flow from a custom component and indeed use e.g. “Go to row”.
Examples of how to do this are included here under “Triggering application logic with process flows”:
 


Kind regards,
Leroy Witteveen

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Leroy Witteveen
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Hi ​@Robin Liu,

You can kickoff a process flow from a custom component and indeed use e.g. “Go to row”.
Examples of how to do this are included here under “Triggering application logic with process flows”:
 


Kind regards,
Leroy Witteveen


Robin Liu
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  • September 2, 2026

Thanks! I am going to try it