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Extended properties | Thinkwise DocumentationThe entry CachePath has a neat little entry:A custom path where the Windows GUI stores a cache of the application definition to increase the startup time. My best bet is that this is something you would not like to set, because, well, it increases your time waiting on starting up the app right? Now to my probable problem: We’ve got it set to %temp%\awesomeness_app That location is not restricted for reading, writing etc… Can it be that for some time now this is not working anymore, because it (tries to) write its cache in the same directory as where the executable is stored? 

I try to implement a zip and download functionality that reads out a folder on azure and zips the files inside that folder.There are the following steps : Decision that either selects the next folder to zip or ends the process when there is no folder left to zip. This decision sets a process variable with the name of the folder. (not shown in the picture) This folder name is used as input for the zip process action. One of the output fields of the zip action is the file_data, which is assigned to a process variable that has the var_binary(max) datatype. This var_binary variable is the used as input for the download action that also takes the filename of the eventual file that is downloaded. The download itself seems to be working as in that a ‘save as’ form is shown with the correct filename that can then be saved on the local machine.However, the file that is created is empty. 

Is there standard functionality that allows you to create an xml file of selected data?I have a function that returns an xml variable.This variable contains all the text that I need.Is there an easy way to put that in an xml file and give it back to the user so that he/he can store it locally??   

In the works of creating a whole flow to process users and its user groups in the application to communicate to IAM, I am configuring the Web connections. In setting up all endpoints, I’ve added several GET actions to obtain values from lookups which I later use in the actual POST (ex. Create user).The question now, is there also a way to directly use a Lookup value in the POST instead of needing to find its “id” in intermediate steps?For example I wish to obtain the “write_back_usr_pref_type_id” by just supplying the name of the configuration.

I just had an issue with the scheduled system flow that was perfectly handled with a TCP call by ​@Angelica van der Beek . I thought it would be worthwhile to share it in the community, in case someone else encounters the same issue.  At our customer we had a systemflow scheduled every 5 seconds, in order to treat incoming calls. The system flow did not work, wh in the production environment while in Acceptance it did. We did verify all settings according to documentation: - Configuring pool usershttps://docs.thinkwisesoftware.com/docs/deployment/indicium#configuring-pool-users - Create the web applicationhttps://docs.thinkwisesoftware.com/docs/deployment/indicium#create-the-web-application - Restarting the applicationhttps://docs.thinkwisesoftware.com/docs/deployment/iis#restarting-the-application - application Initialization

Hello!I know in the latest update there should be an option to limit branch access which will be very useful for main branch. I was looking for it, but I think I miss where it is, can you help me?

Hello, We have a very tight security policy within our company. This means we cannot download any files on servers in our DTA environment without explicit consent from our security department.I was discussing with the security department how we could and should download upgrades from TCP and upgrade our environments.This department is now interested in any information about the security of TCP in general and how we could know for sure that the files we download from this portal are safe? For example, they want information about:Security monitoring/checks TCP EncryptionAny information is welcome! Thanks in advance.Best regards,Nick Janssen

Hello,I am looking for some guidance on how to implement a view which is based on the API results of another internal application.To give you some context, we have a Document Management System (DMS) which offers an API layer. Based on a selected record in Universal, a query parameter is filled and the corresponsing documents are returned in the response. I want to show these filenames in a grid as a detail of the selected record.I tried the following:In a tree menu, add a task instead of a table/view This task is a start task of a process flow: Calls the API endpoint and writes the result in a table Opens a document (a view which is based on the most recent call to the endpoint) This method works for my basic example, with a slightly longer loading time than a normal view (because of the API call).However, we would like to implement this solution in the menu where it belongs. This menu

Hi, we currently have some procedures on our project database which we’ve manually added to the database instead of through the Software Factory. We have several reasons for doing this.I thought the Software Factory wouldn’t drop objects in schema’s other than dbo. I think I read some other question which mentioned objects in other schema’s wouldn’t be dropped but I can’t find it now. It’s also mentioned in this documentation:  https://docs.thinkwisesoftware.com/blog/2023.2#deployment---only-dropping-objects-in-dbo-schema Our manual procedures exist in a different schema but the Software Factory still tries to drop them and this causes errors.This is part of the code in execute source code which tries to drop our procedures: /* Drop all procedures */declare @procedure_name varchar(255)declare drop_objects cursor fast_forward forselect quotename(s.name)from sysobjects swhe

Hello,I'm currently trying to embed another internal application into our Thinkwise application via an Iframe.To some extent I have this working, but I'm having some issues with specific functionalities. The other application is a document management system (DMS). Therefore it should be possible to download/print files from this iframe.When attempting this, the following error message pops up in the DMS:Error message in embedded Document Management SystemI understand the security implications of CORS, but in this situation we trust the source. I tried playing with multiple configurations in the web.config and appsettings.json file:Added some properties in the sandbox attribute of the iframe: sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sa

I am upgrading our SF to version 2025.1 (from version 2023.1) and i am running some test upgrades to see how smoothly this will go and what the changes are. We are running on SQL Server 2019.I noticed that when i do an iam synchronisation of a “new” branch to an IAM that this executes faster than before 😀. But when i change some roles and do an IAM synchronisation of an existing branch in the target IAM that the synchronisation process takes forever.  In the example above i stopped the process because it took to long. In Management Studio i see it is working on this query. The role_tab_variant_look_up table has more than 750k lines.Also in general i occasionally experience that me

I have created a table with system versioning turned on. When I try to create an index on the _history table, and Include a column, a create script is generated with an empty include argument: create nonclustered index "some_name"on "some_table_history"( "some_table_id", "some_other_column") include ( )Naturally, this gives an error on execution.Doing the same on the base table gives a correct create script:create nonclustered index "some_name"on "some_table"( "some_table_id", "some_other_column") include ( "some_third_column" )Why is an included column not included in the create script?

We consider using TSF_dotNET.exe instead of TSF_CS.exe from a network share for starting the Windows GUI in a terminal server setup. This way we want to avoid the growth of the App Data folder. Are there any disadvantages to this idea?

Hi,As we develop more and more system flows, it would be handy to have a tool where we can see all of the logging steps of the running system flows for debug purposes.I was checking in IAM and could not see any logs there except the running flows start and end date.Is something I can look for somewhere else? Thanks in advance,Paul

Hiya!We’re interested in using the Thinkwise Insights demo application in our own environment for two main purposes: To gain insight into how new platform features are applied in a real-world model. To provide a solid demo for (potential) customers ajustable to the customer.  Therefore, my question is: Is it possible to download the complete Insights model somewhere?  Best regards,Ruben

At the moment it is not possible to use Model Insights in combination with a form or grid that’s not in edit mode. Even though the table/ row/ column/ cell information is actually available Model Insights doenst trigger (because you cant trigger eventlisteners on read only fields I suppose). Only rarely it works on read columns.I’ve checked if the information is available by using webpage inspector and check components (and parents). I’ve added a gif for reference. 

Hi, before I had a subroutine with a parameter called Units. This would accept value "Units”:["kg”,"cm”].Due to new features I moved this to a process flow, with a web connector. This new process flow now throws an error stating;An invalid value was supplied for process variable 'units'. Only primitive values are allowed.Is it correct that this does not work? I suspect this to be incorrect..oh ohThanks, B

Hi,I have a small question. Have developed a functionality to retrieve user's notebooks from Microsoft (OneNote). The onenote itself has two URL in the response body, the one_note_client_url and the one_note_web_url.Have built a view witht he data I need and for the web_url i ve made a column with the domain type as html with something like this "cast('<a href="'+notebook.one_note_client_url+'">' + notebook.display_name + '</a>' as nvarchar(max))”. This works as intended and I can open the notebook in a different tab in browser.The issue I face is whent I want to use the one_note client url wich in technical terms is the same url except that it contains the word "onenote:” at the beggining of the url. I have tried to make it with 2 different domain types, URL and HTML (same as the web_url) and in both cases I get the action blocked by the SF 

I tried to import an Excel file using the standard import feature. The excel file contained approximately 8000 rows. The functionality (lay, def etc) is minimal and still it took around 30 minutes to import the entire Excel file. We are using platform version 2025.1.This is not the performance we want/need. It comes down to a little over 4 seconds per row.What can I do to increase the performance?

Hello,Based on this post we have found https://community.thinkwisesoftware.com/questions-conversations-78/open-a-universal-gui-document-from-an-externa-application-4200?tid=4200&fid=78, we made a deeplink process flow that simply executes a task, then opens a document filtered on a record with a given id.  We tried triggering this process flow externally with an API call inside a Preview component (iframe), and while it is successful, nothing happens. What could the issue be - are we missing something from the POST API call (we include the mandatory necessary id in the request body) or is thi

The system flows are using the GMT time. But if we want a snapshot of the stock every day at 00:01 we run into a problem on switch over to the Daylight saving (DST) time period. In wintertime it’s 1 hr difference. And in Summertime (DST) we have a 2hr difference which will lead the snapshot of the stock is created at 23:00 hr. (If we put 01:00 in the IAM schedule)  Does someone has a solution for this? 

Hi All, I have a couple of questions regarding the translation of the login screen and the images on the login screen. What am I doing wrong?  Translations:I've put my browser to Portuguese and I can see in the dev-tools that its allowing the portugues langues in the header:accept-language: pt-BR,pt;q=0.9,nl;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.6 It only show the English translation, in a very persistent way.cache deleted, etc, but now changes.  ImagesI saw these options in the general settings: Based on the description and the documentation, my obvious expectation would be that these images would be refle

We have an API that is currently working with an basic authentication. (The call for this API is written in Visual studio (vb.net to be precise)   Using ApiClient As New HttpClient()     Dim URI As Uri = New Uri(RequestURL)     Dim MessageContent As HttpContent     Dim AuthenticationString As String = $"{ApiUserName}:{ApiPassword}"    Dim EncodedAuthenticationString As String =       Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(AuthenticationString))    ApiClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = New        AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", EncodedAuthenticationString)        Dim response As HttpResponseMessage = Await ApiClient.GetAsync(URI)    MessageContent = response.Content    Return Await MessageContent.ReadAsStringAsync()  End Using This is working and I can retrieve data. I ha

Is it possible to change the sequence of items in the Action bar?  We believe that it would be more logical to have the filter section next to the prefilters and not have the Actions/Tasks in between.Can that be achieved already?

In the windows gui the first column in a cube is locked. When scrolling in universal inside a cube the categories will scroll with it making the cube unreadable. Please make the categories fixed.  After scrolling horizontically.