Questions & Conversations

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….

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.   

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. 

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?

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

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.

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.

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?

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!

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?

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!

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?

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.

Currently it is not possible to show an excel file with multiple tabs in the preview screen type.Only one of the tabs is shown and it is for the user not possible to switch between the tabs.  Is there are a way to work around this? Will the preview be improved?  This is an example of an excel file with multiple tabs:      

We try to make one single web service that can output json, xml as well as pdf and xlsx.The system flow works now for a text output (json, xml) or binary (pdf, xlsx) but not for both, because we assigning the 'Response Body’ property can be assigned to only one process flow variable.So what we need is a possibility to respond with a string or a binary body.Would that be possible? Or is there a work around?  

Hi!We have discovered that from a base model (SQLSERVER_MSG_TRANSL_NL) the translations are untranslated even that before they were. We managed to fix that by running a script that filled the translations from the base model GUI_TRANSL_NL.This is strange because as you can see below they were translated.Do you have any suggestion how this can happen to know how we can prevent this in future?Thanks! 

Hello, We were referencing this post for a dynamic language implementation: https://community.thinkwisesoftware.com/questions-conversations-78/translating-model-objects-in-business-logic-1991, but the session context variable SESSION_CONTEXT(N'tsf_appl_lang_id') only returns “eng” as the language, regardless of the language set by the user. It worked until recently and we were wondering if the new SF updates made some changes that might alter this functionality.Thank you!

Hi, How to put the task button inside the form? Below is the image that the task is created on top    Thank you in advance

hi,in our Universal app we have an input field for a descriptive text, now limited on 125 characters in the domain.In the field, it is now possible to enter more than 125 characters. We cannot save the record because the field is invalid, but we only see this when re-entering the field:  How come it is possible to enter more than 125 characters in a limited field?

Testing the Release Candidate of the Univeral GUI (2025.1.13 rc1.0), certain screen seems to break. Before being aware of the actual cause, I had already created a TCP ticket, but is seems this change was the cause:We actually do have certain screens where we claim a little vertical space to show the one Grid record, so the user is more aware what exactly he is working under. Also there is a benefit that the user can change the column order and the option to automatically scale the width of the column depending on the data, does make a nice compact way to show information.A form is in several cases not a viable option for the way they work and the space they need.Consistency is a factor as well in the situation where all (actual) tabs contains grid and only 1-2 are perhaps 1:1 references. Suddenly breaking the patt

Hi!So after we did the platform update we started to see allover the tasks where there were some lookups that instead of showing the value set for the lookup it was showing the id.From our observations:if the value was default there (let's say an edit) the lookup is shown correctly seems to happen on the fields that are used for other lookup filtering and this is prese

How can we arrange the menu in the Universal GUI, having it as set-up in Windows GUI  

Hi, I am trying to write files from a universal application to my C:/. When running to process flow, the logs show a access denied. I am trying to upload a .pdf file, which is also whitelisted in the file system.Any tips would be much appreciated. Kind regards,Mark 

Hi,I am trying to update a file in a document table using stage_edit with Postman. Everything looks to work fine. All the right status codes, but nothing happens. The record remains unchanged. The steps I take to perform the update are:create a stage which returns a 201 Created and a stage_id: POST .../document(document_id=50)/stage_edit then using a PATCH .../staged_document(<STAGE_ID>) I assign the new filename, in our case "storage_location": "xyz.pdf" using a JSON payload which returns a 200 OK and "resource_changed": true in the result body then I upload the physical file (a local PDF) using POST .../staged_document(<STAGE_ID>)/upload_storage_location which results in a 204 No Content and to finish up I commit the stage using POST