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Andre te RaaCaptain

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How can I show progress in the execution of a multirow task?

Ahh that explains what’s happening. Once the task returns, the UI assumes that it is completed and stops listening for progress messages. Unfortunately I can’t see a way around this in the current implementation.Perhaps submit this as an idea? I can see progress messages being very useful if sent from process flows.

Andre te RaaCaptain

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How can I show progress in the execution of a multirow task?

Hi André,One reason I can think of why no progress is shown in a regular progress dialog is if the task is asynchronous (wait for result = no). Instead, its progress is shown in the ‘Running tasks’ dialog which is accessible via the arrow-down button next to the help-button in the top right of the screen.Can you confirm whether or not this is the case?

René WSuperhero

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Version control in Developer tab

Hello René, The version checker’s primary purpose is to signal the potential of issues resulting from deployment errors. It used to be the case that people manually deployed a Windows GUI somewhere by overwriting an existing directory, leaving outdated dependencies behind, which could lead to unexpected behavior. Fortunately, this rarely ever happens anymore. Then there’s the .NET dependency resolver which prefers DLL’s in the Global Assembly Cache over those deployed together with the GUI itself, if their versions are similar enough. If memory serves me right, an example of when this goes wrong is when AutoCAD is installed on a system, which shares its DevExpress dependencies with the GUI, but uses a different version. Other than that, the version checker doesn’t contain a lot of knowledge and so it gives some false positives. Some indirect dependencies such as the Infragistics4.Win.UltraWinCalcManager.v18.1.FormulaBuilder DLL are never actually needed, and so we don’t add it to th

Edwin SaanSidekick

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Behaviour suggestion contains difference in mobile GUI en Windows GUI

Hello Edwin, Your observation is accurate that the Windows GUI prefers items that start with ‘IV’ over items which contain the search string in other positions. The query looks something like this: select top 8 <name>from ( <some_look_up_query> )where <name> like '%IV%'order by case when <name> like 'IV%' then 0 else 1 end, <name> I am not aware of particular reasons why this was done differently in the mobile GUI, but I think that (a) the limit was set to 5 because of limited screen space estate, and (b) when this was developed in the mobile GUI, the Indicium predecessor it uses did not expose a sophisticated enough API to handle those kinds of special requests. It is likely that it still doesn’t, as we have focused our development efforts on Indicium instead. Hope that answers your question.

Allow column sort by order in lookup tableCompleted

Hi André, that idea was indeed implemented, in Software Factory 2020.1. See also: https://docs.thinkwisesoftware.com/blog/2020/01/01/2020_1.html#breaking-change-domain-element-sorting

Allow column sort by order in lookup tableCompleted

Hi Roland, would it be possible to move these lookup tables into the model as domain elements instead? Because of this hidden sorting column it appears to me that changes to such tables are rarely made at runtime, if at all. In the latest version of the Software Factory (2020.1) you can specify that columns with domain elements must be sorted by element order number, which kind of works like your hidden sorting column. If for example you need to store extra information for each size, you can still use a lookup table, and use the column with domain elements as primary key, and sorting still works as expected. Hope this helps!

Mark JongelingCommunity manager

Refresh subject after finishing task that runs in the backgroundOpen

I’m really not sure about the usability of such a feature. Asynchronicity was introduced for tasks with a long execution time so the UI would not have to be blocked while running them. The design mirrors that of browsers doing huge downloads. The basic idea here is that the UI cannot make any assumptions about the state it’s in when the task completes: The screen from which the task was started may have been closed. The object model may have been refreshed in the mean time. The user may be in edit mode when the task completes, with unsaved changes, in the middle of a phone call with a customer. A modal dialog may be open. The computer may be locked, temporarily without internet or a connection to the database (non stored-procedure tasks). … (this list goes on for a while) In general, doing anything more than displaying a notification is intrusive, will bother at least one end user, and should therefore be strongly discouraged. One of the most extreme cases I’m aware of is Windows doing

Andre te RaaCaptain

A domain setting to be able to sort by element translation or by database valueCompleted

This feature will become available in the next version of the Software Factory, 2020.1. For each domain with elements, one can choose between lexical ordering (by translation) and order by order number. Dropdowns and sorting in the grid both honor this new setting. This means it will be a breaking change for domains where both orders are different. Best performance will be to match the order of database values with the order as defined by the order number, and then choosing to order by order number. Clients then omit the case statement from generated select SQL queries.

JordyBaasRookie

Using the functionality weaver for expression fieldsDeclined

Would like to include SQL prefilters as well. Same reasoning.

K.BakkenesCaptain

Show info of the conflicting records when deleting a row is not possibleClosed

The GUI cannot do this with 100% accuracy as it has no knowledge of what constraints are applied on the database. It may do predictions based on what it does know about references of the model, but cannot guarantee that once suggested records have been removed, the ‘master’ record can be removed as well. It also cannot guarantee that removing the suggested records is necessary at all, i.e. if they really were what caused the error message. And, it cannot rule out the effects of triggers.It depends on how much of this is acceptable, what kind of solutions we could offer for this issue.For background, what happens is that the error message returned from the database is matched against a regular expression and then converted into a more user friendly representation. The message in the screenshot is generated like this:Receive error message from database. Error code == 547, matches regular expression The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "(?<constraint>.+)"\.

Marco KleiwegSidekick

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Can anyone help me with double backslash in domain username

Hmm... what happens internally is that the Windows GUI uses the authentication method only for the connection string, like in this example: Data Source=myserver;Initial Catalog=MY_DATABASE;[b]Integrated Security=True[/b];Pooling=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=False;Application Name="Thinkwise Software Factory";Current Language=English I don't know how SQL server handles this exactly, but if I look at Security -> Logins in SQL Server Management Studio all domain names there have one backslash only. Is it possible to change the login name of affected users by adding a backslash, or somehow refresh their properties? And would that fix the problem?

Marco KleiwegSidekick

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Can anyone help me with double backslash in domain username

Hi Marco, could you somehow add a screenshot of the error message? This may help with the analysis. Thanks in advance.

Andre te RaaCaptain

A domain setting to be able to sort by element translation or by database valueCompleted

If anything, from a usability standpoint the order of items in the dropdown should match how items are ordered in the grid. This is clearly not the case, which in my opinion is a bug. However, without some kind of model setting I'm reluctant to fix this because we'd have to decide what ordering is 'correct'. Lexical ordering is the obvious choice, but as stated above this breaks expected behavior in some dropdowns in existing models. I've created issue 71878 for this in TCP.

Dennis van LeeuwenHero

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ReportMailer not compatible with Microsoft Office 2019

Hi Dennis, a colleague of mine just came up with a new hypothesis for what could cause the problem. Some DLL's will fail to load if the GUI is run under a set of permissions which is different from the Office installer. This can happen for example if you run a GUI as Administrator. Is this something that is worth further investigation? Henk

Dennis van LeeuwenHero

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ReportMailer not compatible with Microsoft Office 2019

Ah, in that case it is likely that the problem is not that the GUI cannot find the proper DLL as I assumed, but rather that no .NET program at all would be able to load it. At this point I don't have enough information to know why this is the case unfortunately. Would you be so kind to report an issue in TCP (https://office.thinkwisesoftware.com/tcp/) and add that particular DLL as an attachment? Thanks in advance. Henk

Dennis van LeeuwenHero

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ReportMailer not compatible with Microsoft Office 2019

Hi Dennis, At the moment we're looking into setting up a test machine, and this time we'll have to be sure that the installed Microsoft Office version is the correct one. The next 2 weeks though we're focusing on releasing the next SF version (2019.2) so any kind of fix will be released no earlier than October 8th. In the meantime, as a workaround, you could copy the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll from your C:\Windows\assembly directory to the Components\Office subfolder of the Windows GUI. Please make sure to backup the existing dll before overwriting it with anything else. cmd.exe works for copying, see screenshot below: [img]https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/thinkwise-en/attachment/86ccd6a1-a1f4-4056-bec2-ebdd7027ce2d.png[/img] The copy command would look like this: `copy C:\Windows\assembly\...\Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.dll C:\...\MyGUIFolder\Components\Office` Hope this helps. Henk

Hauke Albertsen

Extend Excel-style filtering by search fieldOn the backlog

Hi Hauke, I can safely say that no such feature has been available yet. That third party component Jop refers to exposes a similar feature but it doesn't look like the screenshot shown above. However, an extra 'contains' field which is not hidden in a filter dialog but instead available directly in the column filter menu is definitely worth further research.

Dennis van LeeuwenHero

posted in Questions & Conversations

ReportMailer not compatible with Microsoft Office 2019

Next Tuesday this fix is planned for release. Please let us know if you experience any problems. Thanks. Henk

gariensVanguard

Add support for using environment variables in process flow connectors.Completed

This feature has become available in release 2019.1.15 of both Windows and Web GUIs: [url=http://office.thinkwisesoftware.com/TCP/DeepLinkHandler.ashx?deepLink=eyJFbnRpdHlJRCI6ImtsYW50X3Byb2R1Y3QiLCJFbnRpdHlWaWV3SUQiOiJrbGFudF9wcm9kdWN0X3RoaW5rd2lzZSIsIkNoaWxkUmVmIjp7IlJlZklEIjoicmVmX2tsYW50X3Byb2R1Y3Rfa2xhbnRfcHJvZHVjdF92ZXJzaWUiLCJOZXh0Q2hpbGRSZWYiOm51bGwsIlJvd1ZhbHVlcyI6eyJrbGFudF9pZCI6MiwicHJvZHVjdF9pZCI6OTE5LCJrbGFudF9wcm9kdWN0X3ZlcnNpZV9pZCI6MzExNn19LCJHdWlBcHBsQWxpYXMiOiJ0Y3AiLCJSb3dWYWx1ZXMiOnsia2xhbnRfaWQiOjIsInByb2R1Y3RfaWQiOjkxOX19]Windows GUI 2019.1.15[/url] [url=http://office.thinkwisesoftware.com/TCP/DeepLinkHandler.ashx?deepLink=eyJFbnRpdHlJRCI6ImtsYW50X3Byb2R1Y3QiLCJFbnRpdHlWaWV3SUQiOiJrbGFudF9wcm9kdWN0X3RoaW5rd2lzZSIsIkNoaWxkUmVmIjp7IlJlZklEIjoicmVmX2tsYW50X3Byb2R1Y3Rfa2xhbnRfcHJvZHVjdF92ZXJzaWUiLCJOZXh0Q2hpbGRSZWYiOm51bGwsIlJvd1ZhbHVlcyI6eyJrbGFudF9pZCI6MiwicHJvZHVjdF9pZCI6OTIyLCJrbGFudF9wcm9kdWN0X3ZlcnNpZV9pZCI6MzExN319LCJHdWlBcHBsQWxpYXMiOiJ0Y3AiLCJSb3dWYWx1ZXMiOns

eurbanVanguard

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Badge

Hi eurban, The '[i]planning_monteur[/i]' badge stored procedure is called to check if a badge must be shown at the menu item, even before the item is actually selected. Unfortunately we don't currently have an option in the model to disable the badge in the menu item while showing it in the subject screen. You can however prevent it from being called more than once if you set its badge interval to 0. Hope that helps.

Dennis van LeeuwenHero

posted in Questions & Conversations

ReportMailer not compatible with Microsoft Office 2019

I have submitted a fix for review. I will let you know when it becomes available in a GUI release.

Dennis van LeeuwenHero

posted in Questions & Conversations

ReportMailer not compatible with Microsoft Office 2019

Hi Dennis, could you go to your Windows directory, then to the '[i]assembly[/i]' subdirectory, and tell me what version Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook has? See screenshot below. With that information I may be able to implement a fix for you. [img]https://uploads-eu-west-1.insided.com/thinkwise-en/attachment/ffc73676-65f9-4891-b795-90a13d9af873.png[/img]

eurbanVanguard

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Badge

Hi eurban, I'm surprised that whether or not a badge stored procedure is called seems to depend on whether or not the subject is activated. The expected behavior is that badges are called for items in a menu. As all menu items are collapsed in the tree menu in the screenshot, I cannot confirm if this is the case, but can I safely assume that '[i]planning_monteur[/i]' can be chosen from the menu in the screenshot? I can think of two reasons why the '[i]klacht[/i]' badge does not repeat. One is that it has a badge interval of 0, which prevents it from repeating. The other is that the subject cannot be chosen directly from the menu on the left, but shows up somewhere else, like in a detail. If the '[i]planning_monteur[/i]' subject can be chosen from the menu, could you try setting its badge interval to 0, and tell me what happens? Thank you.

eurbanVanguard

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Badge

Hi eurban, does the second badge appear in a menu or a tile somewhere?

Harm HorstmanSuperhero

New line in memo fields without pressing the ALT buttonOpen

Also please keep in mind that the Enter key automatically activates the tab page of a form which contains the next field (possibly determined by cursor_to_col_id). Because the TAB key should never give focus to a hidden control, there is no straightforward way to go to a different tab page by using the keyboard. Standard web forms do not have this problem because they are scrollable, and so their fields are technically visible, even when they're not scrolled into view. We'll need a workaround before we can implement this at all.

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