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Hi there!I have a tab task that opens a floating model document via a process flow. The tab task is triggered by a keyboard shortcut.After closing the model document, the shortcut no longer works. Pressing the key combination does nothing. Running the tab task through the ribbon still works fine, so it looks like focus is not returned to the original document.Two things restore the shortcut:Opening a detail or another screen and navigating back. Adding an open document action at the end of the process flow.The second one isn't usable for me. I reuse the same process flow across multiple variants of the same table, and open document opens the default subject instead of the variant the user came from. Activate document would fit better, but the tab task doesn't pass a document id into the process flow, so I have nothing to target.Two questions:Is this the intended behaviour, or a bug in the focus handling? If intended, how should I return focus to the original document in a flow that run

I recently came across a task that would take a very long time to execute when performed on 1000+ rows at once, not because of the task itself, but because the context was being performed for each row and taking some time. Luckily I could find a way to improve the context, so the wait time is down from minutes to a couple of seconds, but still I think in those couple of seconds to users it might appear that the application is unresponsive and it would be good to show a process is running when a task is being staged.

Hi all,Following our upgrade from Thinkwise 2025.3 to 2026.2, we need to update the community solution: 'Logging data available in the GUI'.To pull the latest solution files from the Thinkstore, we attempted to configure the Personal Access Token (PAT) under Applications > General settings > Web connections (thinkstore_connection) in IAM. However, when entering/saving the token, we receive the following error in IAM:"This environment has not been configured to allow data encryption. Detailed information about configuring data encryption prerequisites can be found in the online documentation."What we already configured in appsettings.json (Indicium): We added the DataSecuritySettings configuration and verified that the IIS Application Pool user has full permissions on the folder:JSON "DataSecuritySettings": { "Storage": { "Mode": "LocalSystem", "LocalSystem": { "StorageLocation": "C:\\Thinkwise\\DataProtectionKeys" } }, "DataProtection": { "Active": true, "E

I am working on a custom component that receives a payload from Thinkwise containing an ApplicationUrl.The custom component uses this ApplicationUrl to fetch data from Thinkwise. However, the ApplicationUrl that is provided in the payload currently points to the IAM metasource by default, while my custom component needs to fetch data from the SF metasource in my development environment.For example, the payload contains something like:ApplicationUrl: https://.../indicium/iam/...but for my custom component I need:ApplicationUrl: https://.../indicium/sf/...I don't want to hardcode or manually replace /iam/ with /sf/ in the custom component, because the component should be reusable across different environments.Is there a Thinkwise configuration or setting that determines which metasource (sf or iam) is used when generating the ApplicationUrl in the payload?If so, what would be the recommended way to configure this so that the custom component receives the correct ApplicationUrl for the en

Hi,I wanted to know if it is still the case as mentioned in Harm’s post that while deep hyperlinks to process flows work in Grid, they do not work in Forms. I have tried it myself and it only works in form if I hold CTRL and click it, but then it also opens a new tab. (Universal GUI  2026.2.12.0.0 )He created a TCP ticket. What is the status of this?We are using it to replace the “open folder” functionality. By changing the browser policy we have made it possible to open links to folders in your file explorer. So, we are close to recreating the folder link exactly as before. The only thing left is that deep hyperlinks do not seem to work in Forms. So then users would have to change to using a task button.

In 2025.3 some smoke tests for a unique primary key on a view could be very slow (timeout). When I leave out the TOP 1 in the statement it performs much better.Is this a known issue?    

I vaguely remember seeing something about that it was possible to have a drop down in the action bar with grouped filters or task. Kind of like the overflow menu.Can’t find anything about this, so did I remember this wrong or dream this up? Or is something like this actually available in one of the newer SF/Universal GUI versions?

Hi, Within DEV express I have built a document that generates an Excel file with multiple tabs. The DEV express report looks like this:The problem I am running into is that in no way I am able to change the names of the tabs in the Excel file. The name is stays OHW overzicht(number) for each tab. I have changed the SheetName and Name of the subreport but the name doesn't change.I have tried adding a script to the Report, but that doesn't work either. My gut says that in some way the tab names are blocked or written over. How do I change the tabs names to the names that I need? Kind regards,Mark

Hi,I’m in the process of testing our Windows GUI apps in the Universal GUI and I noticed that messages seem to display differently: The text is done thru the translation: How can I fix this?

We are running SF 2026.1.11  Recently I started using Copy to clipboard (form) on certain domain entities. I only now encounter the issue that when I want to edit in a grid, the column is not available for new or existing rows. It works fine on tasks and forms, but can't change data in a grid edit?

I am confused: why does a look up most of the times appear as a link, but sometimes as a button on the right of the field?I am looking at the settings of these two columns, but can’t find what would determine this.Another difference is that the link pop up is filtered on the specific record, but the button pop up goes to the row. Since it is not filtered on the row the second can be much slower to load.Is it maybe because of the look up screen type? If it has the grid and form on in one container will it go for the button option instead of the link+filter option?

I am trying to change a file link control, because it is deprecated, to a file upload control.However, the file link opened a folder on the disk. With file upload that does not seem to work.Is it possible to open a folder on the disk from a control?If not, is it possible to open a folder on a disk with the process action open link?From this community post is it correct that there is no option yet to open a folder?https://community.thinkwisesoftware.com/ideas/file-link-and-universal-open-files-directly-6473

Hi,We are currently transitioning a client from the Windows GUI to the Universal GUI.In the existing situation, reports are generated via tsfreportmailer (gui_code), which is not supported in the Universal GUI. During the transition phase, both GUIs are active, so we need to support both approaches.At the moment, we are experimenting with a process flow that calls Indicium for report generation.What we would like to achieve is a where we can decide, based on the client type, whether to:execute the exesting Windows-specific reporting task, or execute a Universal/Indicium-based reporting taskSo effectively, detect the active GUI..For testing, we tried select app_name(); This returns:Thinkwise Software Factory in the Windows GUI Indicium in the Universal GUIThis seems to work, but it feels a bit implicit.Questions:Is using app_name() the recommended way to distinguish between Windows and Universal GUI? Is there a more robust or supported method (e.g. via session_context or another mechani

Hallo, I have a question regarding database schemas in Thinkwise. Is it possible to use tables from a custom database schema (for example, a schema other than dbo) within a Thinkwise application? If yes, are there any considerations or limitations when using a different schema?What is the recommended approach when using tables from a schema other than dbo ?  Thank youJheng

Is it possible to send a WCF web service request in the MSBIN1 format using the Thinkwise Platform?I have tested a standard Web Connection, but it is unclear whether the MSBIN1 format is supported. Could you please clarify if there is a way to send requests to a WCF service that requires MSBIN1-encoded messages?

Hi everyone,When I try to fetch the application structure using the PAT via Bearer authentication, I get a 403 error GET /indicium/iam/appl/ii/$metadataHowever, the exact same call works perfectly fine when I switch to Basic Authentication (username/password of the service account).Furthermore, I have no issues at all when fetching actual data from tables (like /employee) using the PAT. It seems to fail on the /$metadata endpoint.The service account has Available for Webservices enabled and full Fetch rights in IAM.Does anyone know why the PAT is being rejected specifically on the metadata endpoint while working fine everywhere else?

Hello,We are experiencing an issue with the following process flow, see attachment. As you can see, it is a very large process flow, but in general it does return the correct results and performs the expected actions.However, when I quickly click through the process, open and close the task, etc., basically when I interact with it a bit faster, it starts to behave unexpectedly. For example, an intermediate screen sometimes no longer opens. In addition, cancelling also takes quite a long time, around 10 seconds.Could this behavior be caused by the process flow being too large, for example because the flow has not fully completed yet before a new start is triggered? Or is there likely something else going on?Our preference would be not to split up the process flow, as this would require a lot of work and would also introduce additional risks. Therefore, we would first like to understand whether there is another way to make this process more stable.

How do you set up a process flow as an API where a request_body and response_body can be realized?At the moment, I have managed to do this by using Deep Link with the request_body parameter,but then it is not possible to return a response_body.

Hello everyone,I run into an issue regarding roles and rights. We have a few key roles that need to be restricted a little more, so I set the details of a certain table as the following: And this is how it is in the IAM on the user group in question after a sync to IAM:The rights are fully open, while I set it quite differently in the SF part. Now a user gets to see tables they shouldn't see. Is there something I am overlooking or is there something wrong?

Hi, I have a process flow that is started by a table task. The second step is another 'Start table task’. This task has several parameters (read-only, set by default proc), and yes/no buttons. This works fine in Win gui, but in Uni this flow stops in endless loop, since this table task parms/button doesn't popup. Is this expected behavior? We have quite a lot PF with table tasks in the middle of the flow.. and now moving to uni gui it's causing problems. Let me knowThanks, Blommetje  Second table task - in win gui - with parms/buttons. The process flow causing a lot of trouble.I could show a screenshot of an endless spinner in UNI gui, but I don't it will add any value.   

What can we do to show (pdf) documents which is stored in Azure Blob storage in the previewer component?Now it shows a download link (see below), while it worked for files that are stored in Azure File Storage 

Hi,In the past we managed to create a very nice form list grid in the Windows GUI: Every line in the invoice is shown here with dynamic labels.It is build using a VIEW and for most fields the label width is set to 0. The shown labels are fields in the VIEW which we can manipulate. For example the ‘Totaal (€)` could have been `Totaal ($)` if that specific row had prcies in dollars. This way we were able to use dynamic field labels (I think that is a native option in Universal?) and by setting the exact sizes in pixels we were able to get it all nicely positioned.The exact same screens looks wildly different in the Universal gui: In the universal gui, as it is a web interface I guess, it doesn’t adhere to the pixel sizes but uses the Max. form-col space (%) which makes it virtually impossible to position the fields at the exact location I need them to be. It’s already way better than it originally was but for example the fields which I filled with “NULL” to make them visible are complete

I have a few smoke tests that seem to be weird.I have a prefilter like:t1.sales_manager_user_id = (select top (1) u.user_id from dbo.users as u where u.tsf_user = dbo.tsf_user() and u.sales_manager = 1)My dev user isn't setup in dbo.users so dbo.tsf_user() won’t find me.The smoke test tests:-- Prefilter appointment_list.i_am_sales_managerselect top 1 * from ( select 0 as tsf_dummy from "appointment_list" t1) t1where sales_manager_user_id = (select top (1) u.user_id from dbo.users as u where u.tsf_user = dbo.tsf_user() and u.sales_manager = 1)and gives:Invalid column name 'sales_manager_user_id'.But the colum does exist in dbo.appointment_list but it doesn't in the subquery that is used by the smoketest generator (what is tsf_dummy doing here?):select 0 as tsf_dummy from "appointment_list" t1In my perception the prefilter query is added in runtime as a simple where clause:SELECT *FROM "appointment_list" t1WHERE sales_manager_user_id = (

Hi, we noticed that in the universal gui we cannot change the filter behaviour anymore: At the top in the windows gui we can still switch between equals, between, empty etc…The bottom screenshot shows the exact same filter form in the universal gui and we can only use the one filter option selected in subjects.Am  missing something here or is this something we need to get used to?