Questions & Conversations

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)

Hi, In my applications that I've build so far in my training, i've struggle finding a way to change the format of dates shown in my pages. At the moment it's like this: mm/dd/yyyy But what I want is this: dd-mm-yyyy What is the proper way to achieve this?

hi, We use a view in a detail tab where we combine two tables, a record can be added in the row. We use an instead of trigger to insert the records in het underlying tables. After adding the record, the message “saved data can not be displayed on this screen”, but surprise, the new record is shown! Because of the two tables, two primary keys are added in this view, can this be the problem? Should I create a dummy primary key for this view? Anybody an idea how to fix this?

For our application we want to embed a viewer for all kinds of 3D CAD files (both native, and neutral format. The idea is to look for a stand alone viewer that is embedded as iframe. I am wondering if there is already created something like that in a thinkwise application, and hope that some experience can be shared. Thanks in advance!

I tried to upgrade the upcycler from 2023.3 to 2024.1 from the deployment package.. It gave the following error: 2024-05-14 14:24:03.302 -03:00 [Error] Graph does not contain the provided target vertex. (Parameter 'target')System.ArgumentException: Graph does not contain the provided target vertex. (Parameter 'target')

Since we upgraded the indicium to the latest version, we have the following scenario: We perform the same API-call: {{BASE_URL}}/api_call_a?$expand=detail_ref_api_call_a_api_call_b,detail_ref_api_call_a_api_call_c,api_call_a_api_call_d If we perform this API-call using “Basic Auth” it is working as expectedif we perform this API-call using “Bearer token” it is not working (error 502) If I remove the latest 2 expands, it works with the “Bearer token” again. The error-logs are clean and this case is reproducable in Postman. Bearer token is a token based on the same user as the basic-auth login. Prefilters are used in these API's 502 error: <html> <head> <title>502 Bad Gateway</title> </head> <body> <center> <h1>502 Bad Gateway</h1> </center> <hr> <center>nginx/1.22.1</center> </body> </html>

I am pretty sure that before the last .13 GUI release the target of deep-links where not overruled by a default _blank. I really want this to be a setting or ignored. We use quite some deep links to get from pieces of HTML to the next functionality in the Universal GUI. Now they all end up opening new tabs/windows. This is not wanted.

Hello, we want to print a certain label from the web gui. We have a report setup with the report action set to Print. We have a working printer attached to it, but it is not printing anything when the button is clicked. Instead it generates the label and shows it to us in the browser. Here is how we've set up the task: I have also made the report_action manually changeable in the screen when the button to print the report is clicked, but the screen doesn't open and it just opens the document in a new browser tab.

Hello, we have a report where we show some dates. In the report configuration I am forcing the "dd-MM-yyyy” format, and with SQL I am getting the dates in this format as well. However, the dates are still being displayed as "MM/dd/yyyy” on the report. Has anybody else encountered this and solved it?

I have a challenge when it comes to automatically starting the indicium application. We're working with the Software Factory Version 2021.3 where the Indicium layer is used in the generation process. Correct me if I'm wrong but the message We stopped hearing from Indicium is given when Indicium does not pick up new system flows for at least 60 seconds. This usually means that Indicium is not running anymore and should be reactivated. Scheduled every 30 seconds This is explainable behavior after rebooting the web server, when the IIS manage server is stopped or when the application pool is stopped or recycled. For all these examples IIS is not automatically starting the indicium application. We should always start Indicium manually by accessing the URL. Indicium will always be accessed by https based on a IIS redirect rule. When Indicium is running the SF will continue his Generate definition job IIS || Application Pool | Advanced Settings | Start Mode "AlwaysRunnings” | Regular Time In

Maybe i'm overlooking it, but after i add a check constraint i'm not able to edit / delete it anymore? How can i remove / edit my just created check constraint?

Hi, We have in DEV and TEST different Windows GUI theme with different title bar color to make clear that it is not the PROD environment.Where can we change this also for the Universal GUI to have different title bar color for the TEST environment?Is that in the custom.css or can this be done from within the Software Factory?(we are using the 2014.1.14 Universal release)Thanks in advance!

We have a function in our project where the end user can add their own users (as in people who come to work for them) to their application. We have a link to the IAM via an HTTP connector in a process flow. We use the following link: /indicium/open/iam/iam/usr. And this gives the following error when the call is made via the HTTP connector: The /open/iam/iam/x endpoint can only be used to start message protocol independent process flows. The entity 'usr' is not a process flow. I have found this error when testing the call with Postman after noticing something was wrong. This has always worked in versions prior to 2024.1. We could always add users via our end application to the IAM using our task made for adding users. Same goes for editing. We have no idea what possibly could cause this sudden error.

Yesterday I updated the Windows GUI from GUI_2023.3.12.0 to GUI_2024.1.12.0Today a user complained that his process flow is no longer sending out an email and issues this error: Any ideas?In the meanwhile I'll try to see if it is reproducable in an earlier version of the GUI.

Is it possible to make a task popup a little bit wider? For example i have 2 fields next to eachother and i set the field width to 400 pixels for both fields. I expect the popup to be 800 pixels but that is not happening. For now the popup is like 430 pixels wide, but i want it to be like 600 pixels or even 800 pixels wide because of the long label names. I know there is a setting which is called “No. of columns in form” but that setting is making columns of the field groups and thats not what i want really

Every time I log into Universal, I receive the following authorization request. How can I set this up so that I only have to provide this once? If left empty, the server decides. This offers a seamless login if a user is logged in already.

According to the documentation it’s possible to store files in the database. I understand this takes two columns: one to store the filename and the other to store the file contents. So far so good. But how do I get to set the storage column as mentioned in the manual? I tried a bunch of combinations between datatypes and controls but so far the field hasn't popped up.

Is there any link, documentation or whatsoever to help a non microsoft person to get the email provider using graph working. I just don't get it to work, and there are no logs with error messages to get me started. Where do I make the client, and how I see if it works. I added as a test a graph client/secret (made it via de azure identity > Applications), made a notification template and send myself a notification via email. I just see status 'failed to send' but cannot find anything in any logs.

I’ve already found a related topic on the platform but it seems that and still lacks some documentation regarding how to configure it. Firstly, you indicate that the role as Developer mode, for completeness perhaps nicely complementing the remark that main administrators are exception to the rule? But this is for you guys to judge. For main administrators, developer mode is enabled by default. ✔ Indicium is running; ✔ The WebSocket Protocol feature of IIS is installed; ✖ What does properly configured mean? ✖ Are there any specific firewall settings that need to be configured? I would love to hear how to proceed with the configuration from here.