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Mustafa Kazanc
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Mustafa KazancModerator
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Filter Concepts - what's your opinion?Blog

Hi everyone! In this blog I want to take you through my thought process regarding the Filter, Sort, and Search functionalities in the Universal GUI. I’m introducing a couple of concepts for which I’m particularly curious to hear your thoughts. Introduction Over time functionality has been gradually added, each of which has improved the Universal GUI. However, we also notice that it can resulted in a more cluttered and less intuitive user interface where certain elements are hidden or not very user-friendly. Based on my own review, drawing from my experiences and comparing with best practices around Filter, Sort, and Search, I came to the following conclusion: Filters are hidden: The filtering option is not immediately visible and is buried under the … menu. Unclear status of active filters: While filtered results are shown after applying a filter, the positioning of the filter interface is not always intuitive, making it hard to find and unclear whether a filter is currently active. So

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Arjan Sollie
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Arie V
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Arie VCommunity Manager
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🚀 Ideas to be 10X faster - which SF workaround to eliminate?

Compared to other platforms, Thinkwise really excels in productivity. Especially the fact that creating a Data Model immediately results in a working Application is unparalleled! One of the current strategic priorities is to double down on this development speed of the Thinkwise Platform: we strive to make every Developer a mythical 10X Developer! There are a lot of angles we can work in order to achieve that goal. As a first, we want to fix unnecessary limitation in the Software Factory (SF). This means we want to tackle those things for which you as Developer have to create workarounds to get functionality working the way you(r users) need it. There are a lot of great Ideas out there and of course we'll review the existing ones. But I would also like to call upon the Community to highlight which existing Ideas would be your priority and/or to create new Ideas related to eliminating SF workarounds (please keep it to this scope in this topic). Could you please: Reply with Ideas that wo

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Store annotated PDF from the viewer

Hi, When viewing a PDF in Universal it is possible to create annotations like marking, drawing and adding text. As far as I can see the only way to obtain the annotated version of the document is to download it (manually) and then to upload it again to store it in a Thinkwise defined storage location. Is it somehow possible to the download the annotated document and then upload it again from within Thinkwise?

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Renée Evertzen
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Can we Use Expression to filter the result

Hallo,, Can we easily applied / use Expression on the column table that will filter the result? Example: Status has Yes/No value, but you want to display only Yes on status column table can we use expression calculated field t1.status = Yes? or create a virtual column to add expression? The result will only display all status that has Yes value. I'm using table not view table. any other way to filter the result without using view table. Thank you in advance

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Renée Evertzen
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Mark Leunissen
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Mark LeunissenWarrior
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Webpage can not find document

Hi, In my application I am trying to download a file that has been stored in a folder in a local file storage location. The file storage location is configured for the environment I am on. However, I am getting the following error when trying to open the file: The column that has the storage location is indeed file_name_queue. But the file_id is null, which would suggest to me that the file is not found. The file is stored in the folder of the storage location. What could be a reason that the file_id is null?

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Mark Leunissen
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Unit test in cp instead_of_trigger

Is it possible to configure a unit test for a control procedure instead_of_trigger? I have a CP which inputs values when a user changes them in a view. The CP does some calculation and then updates values of multiple rows in the database. I'm trying to build a unit test for this without succes.Which unit test type should i use for this case? i've tried with update statement and update handler, but without succes.

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Renée Evertzen
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Print files from Linux platform

I just read the following note in the documentation for the print file connector: PDF files can only be printed on a Windows platform Is this still the case? Because it would be a huge deal braker for platform independence and greatly hamper our efforts to switch to a full Linux platform for running Indicium and Universal services. Of course we could create a tiny application just for print jobs but that would still require a Windows machine.

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Only certain models supported when using Azure OpenAI?

Experimenting with our options to use AI tooling in the Software Factory, I struggled to even get a basic example working. We already have for other applications (none SF) some models in use on Azure. So for our experiment it would be handy to to use an existing resource and went with o3-mini. It always gave a “ Unsuccessful (invalid request) ” when looking in the Process Flow monitor. So perhaps the Resource Name need to include the whole url including the api-version, but that does not fit the field. Eventually we just tried another model, namely: gpt-4o-mini. Eureka! It seems this works straight away. So the question. Are the Models to choose for use with the Software Factory limited by certain types?

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Account new colleague

Could you please make a new account for a new colleague from our IT department? Her name is Robin Liu. Her e-mail address is [replaced by moderator] Thank you for your effort!

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Support for TIFF files?

Hi, We have customers that (still) scan documents to a TIFF-format. As far as I can see the default Universal viewer doesn't preview files of this type. Is there an option to view these types of documents?

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Hugo Nienhuis
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Indicium API performance - large table transfer

For BI purposes we want to make a call on the Indicium API and retrieve a large table from our application. The table has over 22 million records. We did some testing and the throughput is appr. 1 million records per 12,5 minutes, so we estimate almost 5 hours total transfer time. We want to speed up the process; it is a nightly job. But, we also are looking into transferring the data during office hours, but the gui becomes inresponsive during the process. My questions how can we increase the performance? is it possible to create a second endpoint that will relieve the pressure on the gui endpoint? if we would upload the data to another API, would that be faster or give less strain on indicium?

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Tejo van de Bor
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Tejo van de BorCaptain
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IAM User preferences not visible

hi, We have a Universal application that has a grid which needs specific column widths, for entering both descriptive fields (wide) and hours (small). In the model we set some widths in the subjects, but when the users change this in the application, I cannot find these settings in IAM, Authorization, Users, User preferences. Only when I change the sort order of a column it shows in IAM. I can manually add a user preference in IAM, and after clearing the cache this change is visible in the grid. But it seems that changes in the grid are not saved in IAM. Is there something we have to set for this to work? Thanks!

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Renée Evertzen
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Harm Horstman
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Harm HorstmanSuperhero
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How to return a pdf report via the API

We are looking for a way to make a pdf report, based on real time data, available on the customer's website. The intention is not to show the report in an iframe, but as a download. Something like how the file API works would be great, but then a real time generated file as response. Is there a way to realize this with a GET request?example: https://.../indicium/iam/api/public_vessel_schedule_pdf?route_name=north_europe&duration_weeks=4 Or will this always have to be done via a POST request? We have started setting up a system flow, but we are stuck. What is the recommended approach?

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Form is selected after search

Hi all, In our application, we have a form that is set to ‘Auto-edit’. Whenever the search bar is used and the filtered results are shown in the grid, the cursor is automatically moved to the form. Depending on the type speed, this can result in unintended changes of the values in the form. I have attached a gif of the problem. After I typed ‘Royal’ in the search bar, the result is shown. The cursor moved from the search bar to the form, where I started typing something. Can I adjust a setting somewhere to prevent this from happening? Kind regards, Rick PS: The GIF shows anonymized data.

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Preview of excel file with multiple tabs

Currently it is not possible to show an excel file with multiple tabs in the preview screen type. Only one of the tabs is shown and it is for the user not possible to switch between the tabs. Is there are a way to work around this? Will the preview be improved? This is an example of an excel file with multiple tabs:

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Renée Evertzen
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Harm Horstman
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Harm HorstmanSuperhero
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Protocol-independent system flow with binary or text response body

We try to make one single web service that can output json, xml as well as pdf and xlsx. The system flow works now for a text output (json, xml) or binary (pdf, xlsx) but not for both, because we assigning the 'Response Body’ property can be assigned to only one process flow variable. So what we need is a possibility to respond with a string or a binary body. Would that be possible? Or is there a work around?

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Harm Horstman
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Ionut
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IonutWarrior
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Disappearing translations from base model

Hi! We have discovered that from a base model (SQLSERVER_MSG_TRANSL_NL) the translations are untranslated even that before they were. We managed to fix that by running a script that filled the translations from the base model GUI_TRANSL_NL. This is strange because as you can see below they were translated. Do you have any suggestion how this can happen to know how we can prevent this in future? Thanks!

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Mark Jongeling
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Theo Neeskens
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Suppress "The saved data cannot be displayed" message

My users don't like the “the saved data cannot be shown” message.And in the context of this application I understand that.The search for a Person on a screen with a cardlist and a form.If they don't find the Person they must add it.After adding the Person they get this message.But they want to see the Person they just added. I tried making a task with a process flow that replaces the normal Add button.Very simple, a task without template, then process actions for Clear Filter, Add Row (capture Person ID), Change Filter (to Person ID).Work fine, but I cannot disable the standard Add button without als disabling the Add Row process action.So this is not the solution. Then I tried without a task, starting the process flow with Add Row. But then I cannot do a Clear Filter first.So it is Add Row, Clear Filter, Change Filter.But that gives met the dreaded message “the saved data cannot be shown” again. While it IS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN. How do I accomplish this?(On Universal 2024.3)

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Renée Evertzen
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Valentin
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ValentinApprentice
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Translation issue with dynamic language implementation

Hello, We were referencing this post for a dynamic language implementation: https://community.thinkwisesoftware.com/questions-conversations-78/translating-model-objects-in-business-logic-1991, but the session context variable SESSION_CONTEXT(N'tsf_appl_lang_id') only returns “eng” as the language, regardless of the language set by the user. It worked until recently and we were wondering if the new SF updates made some changes that might alter this functionality. Thank you!

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How to put a task button inside the form

Hi, How to put the task button inside the form? Below is the image that the task is created on top Thank you in advance

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Arie V
Community Manager
Tejo van de Bor
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Tejo van de BorCaptain
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Universal input field length not working in grid

hi, in our Universal app we have an input field for a descriptive text, now limited on 125 characters in the domain. In the field, it is now possible to enter more than 125 characters. We cannot save the record because the field is invalid, but we only see this when re-entering the field: How come it is possible to enter more than 125 characters in a limited field?

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Arie V
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Please give back the option on 1:1 references to still use grid (cardlist, tree)

Testing the Release Candidate of the Univeral GUI (2025.1.13 rc1.0), certain screen seems to break. Before being aware of the actual cause, I had already created a TCP ticket, but is seems this change was the cause: We actually do have certain screens where we claim a little vertical space to show the one Grid record, so the user is more aware what exactly he is working under. Also there is a benefit that the user can change the column order and the option to automatically scale the width of the column depending on the data, does make a nice compact way to show information. A form is in several cases not a viable option for the way they work and the space they need. Consistency is a factor as well in the situation where all (actual) tabs contains grid and only 1-2 are perhaps 1:1 references. Suddenly breaking the pattern to grid add/edit your data is not desirable. In our situation it is only grid at the moment, but the idea to have a cardist popup with some fancy formatting for certai

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Ionut
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IonutWarrior
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Lookup value shown in dropdown but not in field after selection

Hi! So after we did the platform update we started to see allover the tasks where there were some lookups that instead of showing the value set for the lookup it was showing the id. From our observations: if the value was default there (let's say an edit) the lookup is shown correctly seems to happen on the fields that are used for other lookup filtering and this is present only when the applications are run based on sf database, for IAM applications it works goods Can you help us identify what's going wrong? Is this a known issue and we might need to to an update? Thanks!

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Ionut
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Aggregation Sum on checkbox in Universal GUI

In Windows it is possible to do a sum on a “checkbox”, where the domain is INT In the Universal GUI, this doesn't work Would be very nice if this option will also work in Universal GUI ….ef_evnt_event_staff_planning?$apply=aggregate(count_using_dinner%20with%20sum%20as%20count_using_dinner_sum) Results in 500 error :-(. Is there a way to make that work?

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Menu order in Universal GUI

How can we arrange the menu in the Universal GUI, having it as set-up in Windows GUI

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