Questions & Conversations

hi,As an ISV we install our end-user databases on our customer’s servers. That means that we cannot always set the default collation of the server. How can we set the collation for a new Thinkwise database generated with the Thinkwise Deployment Center? Or could it be set in the model?

Hi!I have a task with a input for a file upload, the thing is I setted up the storage to 60MB but when I try to add files larger than 25 I got the following error:Those are the configurations:File upload domainStorage domainTask parameters:Is this limit configurable somewhere else where I am not aware of?Thanks for responses!

I’ve created a new code group called ‘BACKUP’. This code group is placed just before the ‘UPGRADE’ code group to create a back-up of the chosen database (runtime configuration).The new code group should be automatically ON in the ‘Execute source code’ screen, but must be excluded from a deployment package. I expected that the checkbox ‘Show at deployment’ may solve this problem but unchecking it will also remove the code file from the ‘Execute source code’ screen.What does this checkbox do? And what does ‘Fixed file’ do?

Yesterday we updated to the newest version (2024.2) of universal, but now we have unwanted behaviour in the ‘start report’ process action within a process flow. Previously it would just open the PDF file in the browser. However, since the updates it downloads the file instead of opening it. We do not want this.Is this a conscious change? Can we change a setting so it will open instead of download?Thanks in advance!

Hi,I was wondering if it's possible to disable the ‘auto selection’ of a row in Universal. This in part with auto-edit/save enabled can lead to wrongful data entries by accident without even noticing (fat finger mistakes).In the Windows GUI this behavior already exists. Even if auto-edit is enabled the user has to knowingly click on a row to ‘activate’ it for auto-editing. I've looked into the available extender properties but to no avail. Thanks!

On MySQL there is a clear difference between the TIMESTAMP data type and the DateTime datatype.If you want to store when an event in Amsterdam starts, you store the value as DateTime, as a user who wants to go to the event wants to know the time the event starts in Amsterdam.If you want to store when a record changed you do this as TIMESTAMP, as the user wants to know when it happened relative to his local time.Is there a way that can I make sure that Thinkwise handles this correctly? 

Hi ,We have to get the files from the google drive and then process it to get the data from the file.The format of the file is .xml and they are currently zipped.In order to extract the data from these files, I need to unzip them and convert the xml format to JSON format. The data further will be stored in various tables.I learnt from the docs and community that the folder needs to be empty where it needs to be unzipped.The connection to google drive is working and I can get the list of the files in the drive. I tried to unzip these files using the unzip connector (by placing the zip file in the location manually) and connecting the task directly with the unzip file connector, however while testing got error as below :  Process flow: Below are my questions :  How can I store the file into storage location using write file if its still zipped. Is there any document that can guide to create a temporary directory using a GUID and unzip the contents in that directory,as mentioned in below

I am not able to get the process flow monitor to work via SF or IAM. I have indicium via a container and Universal runs on Linux with Nginx and websockets enabled. How do I troubleshoot? 

We have a HTTP connector flow, very simple GET toch check if a code exists. It uses basic authentication. The HTTP connector flow works. I added the same to a web connector with the base URL and basic authentication and the endpoints. The only difference is I get a 401 not authorized via de web connector but not via the HTTP connector. There is no logging to debug further.  How to proceed? 

Hi,For a project we have the acceptance, development environment on the same server.But the performance and speed of the application is very slow. Is it possible to remove the development environment from server and keep only the acceptance env, so that the speed will be improved? Thanks,Rucha

When trying to upload a pdf file to azure blob using write_file_connector, we get the following warning:  The file did get upload to the azure blob. We checked the file storage location in the SF and the max size in MB is empty. It seems to be a problem in the process action. What could be the reason for it?

We have plans to start to use the Universal GUI instead of the Windows GUI. But we are running into an issue regarding screen types. On all our screen types we try to maintain a standard layout for the taskbar, prefilters and the combinded filter. This looks like this: In the Windows GUI it looks like this: But in the Universal GUI it seems to show it in the opposite order, first the combined filter then the prefilters and then we see a action bar and then the tasks. This looks like this:​​​​​​​And user prefilters are also not grouped and all over the place: If we would insert an actionbar screen component in the screen type, we do get the correct order in the Universal GUI:  But then the Windows GUI isn't correct anymore: So it seems the Universal GUI is showing something completely differrent than what has been setup in the SF, or are we missing something?Is there a way to have the same layout in the Windows GUI and the Universal GUI?​​​​​​​

We currently have a screen type with a component tab page containing a grid, prefilter bar, and task bar. Next to this is another component tab page with only a form.In Universal, the prefilter and task bar are displayed on both the grid and form, resulting in prefilters being shown in the form.Is this by design, or is it a bug? Can we expect this to be resolved in the future? In my opinion, showing prefilters in a form is a waste of space, especially when space is limited on phones or tablets.

We like to execute a windows command from inside a system flowExample:DIR "\\sharename\queue" /b /s >”\\sharename\cmd\queue.txt"What is de best approach?

Hi,In Universal I would like to have Auto-edit in grid on, and have multi-select - so a user can execute the tasks. However, it appears it's on or the other. Is this correct?Thanks, Blommetje

In Universal I now use card lists more and more. These work well in many cases, especially on smaller devices.Users are now asking if it is possible to sort the list.Any idea this option is available to end users?

Context: Ive created a task that creates agreements. A few fields are mandatory and some are not.Mandatory: Supplier, Description, Year, Startdate, Enddate, type and managers.There's functionality written in order to automaticly determine the startdate and enddate. For instance. when inserting 2023, startdate becomes 1-1-2023 and endate becomes 31-12-2023. There's also functionality written to determine the managers based on the first selected supplier. Problems: Can't close my task popup if execute is clicked but the mandatory fields are not supplied.Year functionality stopped working on start and enddate, now I need to select dates manually.Gif of the behavior below.Steps to reproduce:Create bonus agreement Fill in Supplier 1, no multiple suppliers (category and assistant category manager will be filled in) Fill in Description Click Execute (all error messages for fields that are not filled in will appear here) Fill in Year Click Cancel - this does not work Fill in start and end date

Sometimes when I am working on a dynamic model for example, it is difficult to figure out which database value for a domain in the SF database translates to a particular translation in the GUI. For example, figuring out the database value in the table col for column 'calculated_field_type' when it is an expression or when it is a calculated column can be quite tedious. I usually then look for a column in the UI with the particular value I am looking for, and then query the database to find out what database value is associated with this. What is the easiest way to figure this out? Is there a data dictionary somewhere I can refer to?

As a junior developer I find it really cool how much power you have with the Thinkwise platform. I've been able to deliver a tool to our customer in one month, with database, integration etc.As a Thinkwise partner, however, I think that's a pity that the learning curve is so steep. I have some experience with other no-code platforms that are so rich in feedback, that's you learn so much quicker. And probably, the growth of the Thinkwise platform will be highly limited by this learning curve. What I found is that the way to learn is to really f*^k up you branch (if your lucky to know how that works), and you'll need a senior to fix it. That's a really hard situation if there is no senior around. Ive broken versions because I changed a domain, or made a field mandatory and it broke de upgrade. After that, feedback is extremely poor, and thebwaybtondig yourself deeper into problems is way easier than finding the solution. You can create domains that do not exist and I will remember other

We have a task defined, which is not linked to any subject. We are developing a separate API which needs to execute this task, but Indicium Universal keeps throwing a 404.Is there a way to execute a task through Indicium Universal which is not linked to a subject?Thanks in advance!

After upgrading the SF to 2024.2 it comes up with the following messages when generating the definition, how to solve this? Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.indx'.

Hello, It is there a possibility to recognize which tab is active from a screen? I want to create a context to show me the detail tab A when the detail tab B is active.

When accessing the development environment (without the intervention of an IAM) directly through the SF, I get the following error message when opening the log in URL.The error message is not given when I access the URL directly from the server running IIS.How can we get the “Invalid OData URL. The path '“//i_ui_usr”' is invalid” message? This problem seems to have arisen after the 2024.2 upgrade, possibly this is still related?   Error - Invalid OData URL. The path '"//i_ui_usr"' is invalid.  { "defaultApplication": "", "loginOptionsDisabled": true, "loginOptionsHidden": false, "installNotificationDisabled": false, "installNotificationExpirationInDays": 10, "useFormFieldBackgroundColor": true, "serviceUrl": "https://office-dev.niverplast.com/indicium/iam/sf", "defaultPlatform": 3}Universal - config.json

Looking at ways to increase the performance of search options being used by users, the index option “full-text” crossed my eyes. Reading up on what it does and how it works, I am not entirely sure what the intended purpose is in the Thinkwise product.I was hoping I could use it for the combined filter, but those make “LIKE” statements on the view/tabel it is used on and for full-text it needs “CONTAINS”.Could someone enlighten me?I am also open to hear about cases where someone has used the full-text in his/her functionality to get an idea of how it might benefit.

In the Universal GUI there is a build-in animation in the form edit-mode: A label of an empty field has a bigger font and is positioned more in the center, when you click on the field the label becomes smaller and moves to the top (see example images below). The same thing happens for lookup-fields when starting the edit-mode. The GUI seems to start the lookup fields empty field and put in the values a little bit later which seem to trigger the animation. Our users find the animation distracting and sometimes even confusing for distinguishing the label from a value. Thus we would like to turn off the animation so that empty field labels have the same position/size as non-empty fields.(How) would this be possible?  Unit field is empty (label is big and centered)Unit field is selected (label is small and at the top)