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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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Robert Jan de Nie
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Robert Jan de NieThinkwise blogger
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Check constraints using the Software FactoryBlog

In any application it is important to validate a user’s input. Is the value of the order smaller than the maximum order value? Is the start-date earlier than the end-date? Does this action lead to a stock amount smaller than zero? There are a few options how you, as a developer, can implement these checks: Domain (using min/max value) Default Trigger Check constraint A closer look Let’s take the following example and work out if and how we can implement its validation: Is the start-date earlier than the end-date? Domain Validation through a domain is not possible in this case since we need to compare two values Default Clear out the end-date field and send a warning to the user informing that the end-date should occur after the start date Advantage: The user is being informed while the data is being entered. Risk: Business rule is only being enforced on the screens where the default has been implemented. When this data is created through other means, for example a task or external inte

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Hyperlink on the Table fields or hyperlink lookup

Hallo, I’d like to confirm whether the hyperlink lookup feature is included in the 2025.2 release? I had previously asked whether it's possible to add a hyperlink to each field value. I’m working with a table (or entity) displayed using a grid component, and I’d like the values in certain fields to act as hyperlinks that redirect to another table, subject, or subject variant. Those are the functionality I’m referring to. Additionally, is there any documentation or a set of steps available for configuring this feature? Thank you

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Mark Leunissen
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Mark LeunissenCaptain
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Drag & drop files - Unauthorized error

Hi A couple of weeks ago I implemented the following topic to work in my on premise application. When I tested the drag and drop functionality myself, everything worked fine. This week however, the tester ran into an unauthorized error. After some testing myself I found something weird. When I log into my application via: https://my-appl/universal and I try to upload a file I get the following error: However, when I log in via https://my-appl/indicium and then navigate to https://my-appl/universal my file is uploaded successfully: It seems like that logging in via the universal link doesnt give me the rights to upload a file, while logging into the indicium page does. On both pages, I log in with the same account, so there is no difference there. The upload URL that is used in the javescript code is https://my-appl/indicium/iam/appl/(table_refence). I am struggling to find where the problem lies. My guess is that this has something to do with the server settings of the on premise envir

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Mustafa Kazanc
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Smarter Filtering in the Universal UIBlog

With release 2025.2, the filtering experience in the Universal UI has been significantly improved and expanded. The styling of the Default filter has been updated, making it more user friendly, and Advanced filter options have been introduced to support more detailed filtering capabilities. This blog outlines the thought process and design choices behind these updates, and aims to provide insight into how the filtering experience has evolved. Filter pop-up It starts with the updated filter pop-up, which now combines default filtering, detail filtering, and advanced options in one central location. The default filter allows for quick and straightforward filtering, including detail filtering on specific fields. By toggling a switch, users can transition into advanced mode, where more complex and layered conditions can be applied. Each feature is explained individually in the sections below for clarity. Default filter The default filter is designed for speed and simplicity. It lets users

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Mustafa Kazanc
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Blommetje
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Logging of API usage

Hi, We have several apps calling Indicium, and using the data. This works fine, but sometimes clients complain about performance. We have a feeling that someone is calling the endpoint a bit too often.. or requesting a bit too much data. What options do I have to see how often someone (an app) is calling certain endpoints, and at what moment? Thanks! Blommetje

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Trailing zeros in grid display

I need to consistently show 2 decimals, including when the number is a full integer, or only has 1 decimal. Searching the forum I found references to custom_display_format, but I have no idea how/where to implement it. For example, here it should be 2.25, 1.00, 2.00 and 1.50: Example without trailing zeros Alternatively I could use a calculated field, but converting numbers to strings in sql for this purpose would be inefficient (and a lot of extra work and complexity), so I'd like to avoid it.

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Remco Kort
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Remco KortAdministrator
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Create Markers and geographic shapes on your MapBlog

Transport companies always have their eyes on the road—quite literally. With fleets spread across countries or even continents, it’s vital to know where every truck is and whether it has reached its destination. While GPS trackers are now standard in every vehicle, simply knowing it’s position isn’t always enough. That’s where geofencing comes in. By assigning a digital boundary—known as a geofence—to each location, companies can automatically determine whether a vehicle has arrived or left. If it’s within the shape, it’s on site; if it’s outside, it’s not. Simple as that. But managing all that location data can quickly become a challenge. That’s why the latest 2025.2 update to the Thinkwise Platform introduces a powerful, user-friendly way to work with maps. Users can now easily add markers, and draw circles, rectangles, lines, or complex polygons—directly within the application. It’s a major step forward in making geodata management faster, more intuitive, and integrated into your Th

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IAM role sets

IAM includes a task to clean up unused role sets.I've noticed in several projects that this feature is not well known, and the documentation is also quite limited. However, in some cases, cleaning up unused role sets significantly improves end-user login performance. Is there a specific reason why unused role sets are retained?If not, my suggestion would be to automatically remove a role set once it is no longer applicable.

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Should Filter - Multiple levels listen to extended property "DisableFilterOnDetails" with backwards compatibility?

As the latest Universal GUI (2025.2.10.0) is backwards compatible with 2025.1, we can already use this so enjoy some new features and a couple of bugfixes. Noting the option for the Filter form to also support filtering in Detail tabs and the older platform not having the settings for them yet (As far as I could find), should perhaps the Filter form listen to the extended property “DisableFilterOnDetails”? Especially considering the possible performance impact, I probably would want to disable detail filtering all together for now until we are on 2025.2 and can decide for certain details what we want to support.

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Arie V
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SanderAdam
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The maps component, when drawing a route on it, puts a dot on Null Island

Hello everyone, When we plot a route with the Maps component in our software, it plots the route correctly, it doesn't have any weird data in it and the route is generated satisfactorily. But there is a strange phenomenon: for every route it plots, it alwasy sets a dot on the coordinates (0, 0). That causes it to always zoom in on Null Island in the Atlantic Ocean. What could be going wrong? The screen when I open it with a dot on Null Island (long: 0, lat: 0): These coordinates cannot be found in the configuration of the route. The actual route it plots and should zoom into:

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Barcode font universal

We use barcode labels with the barcode font free 3 of 9 extended.In the windows GUI this works fine.With the thinkwise reporting service this works fine as well. Both this methods will become obsolete so I’m re-develop these reports to the Universal GUI.On which places do we need to install the barcode font we need in the report.Should it exists on each device running the Universal GUI?Should it exists on the webserver where Indicium is running.Till now the labels are coming out the Zebra Printer but not with a barcode. In the place of the barcode is now a human readable number, which means the ‘place’ where the report is generated doesn’t recognize the barcode font. Can someone help me out this puzzle?

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Modify process step

In previous releases you could modify the type of process step (always, successful, not successful) by double click the arrow in the process flow and change the type. This is not possible anymore (2025.1). I could not find something related to this in the release docs. Is this a known issue or is there a reason for?

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Has anyone tried Azure OpenAI with Copilot in SSMS?

I’m curious to hear about experiences with Azure OpenAI with Copilot in SSMS. Has anyone tried it and what is your opinion in comparison with Azure data studio with github copilot for example? For reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/ssms/copilot/use-azure-openai-with-copilot-in-ssms Brent Ozar review: Review: SSMS Copilot vs Other AI Tools - Brent Ozar Unlimited®

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Mark Jongeling
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Cube Chart

Hallo, I'd like to ask for any suggestions. We're creating a cube chart to represent Company, Volume/Number of Shipments, and Year. Is it possible not to display all values by default when the page loads? We'd like to add filters, such as by Company or Year, instead of showing everything at once. Right now, the chart displays all company values, and it looks cluttered. If there's a way to apply filters, that would really help with clarity. This chart will be one of the key items on our dashboard, so we need it to provide statistical insights into shipment volume.

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Tutorial 101: Hello TestwiseTutorial

This is a follow-up to the Testwise introduction blog, read that first for the necessary context: Disclaimers: While a Record & Playback approach is a great way to start from having no automated tests, it does have a couple of disadvantages, some of which can be mitigated by replacing recorded steps with Testwise-provided reusable logic and helpers. Some of below steps are going to change when we automate steps that are currently being performed manually Depending on the versions you install; steps might differ Prerequisites: Install Visual Studio Code on Windows Install Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere In your File explorer, create a folder on your local device → this will be your test project name ​ Go into the folder, select the navigation, replace with cmd and hit Enter ​ This will open up your terminal in the right folder. Type code . and hit Enter. This will open up Visual Studio Code. In there press Ctrl + ~ which will open up the Terminal within Visual Studio Code, already p

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Arie V
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How can I display a dropdown list for a field that's defined as an expression

Hallo, I have a module in my web portal under that allows adding, editing, and deleting data. In this model, I'm working with two fields: Company and Liners. Both values are derived from the same table called Company. To differentiate them, I created expressions where: company_name includes companies starting with "NL" liners includes companies starting with "L" My goal is to display these as two separate dropdown lists—one for Company and one for Liners—even though the data comes from the same table. I initially tried using a company_id lookup from the Company table, but that displays all records, which isn't what I need. So my question is: Is using expressions the correct approach for filtering the dropdown values? If not, what is the best practice for achieving separate dropdowns for Company and Liners from the same table based on different filter conditions? Below is the webportal page and the current data model table. web portal data model

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Mark Jongeling
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Expand cube fields in Universal vs Windows for an editable cube

I have a cube view with expanded cube fields (row and column). The behavior in Universal seems different from Windows. In Windows columns are expanded (year → month). In Universal the year is collapsed and shows year totals. What could be the reason for this behavior?

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Remco Kort
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Remco KortAdministrator
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Interact with the Enhanced SchedulerBlog

This is the second installment in our blog series on the Scheduler. In Part 1 , we walked through the initial setup of the Scheduler. Now, in Part 2, we’ll explore how to effectively interact with the Scheduler to enhance usability and user experience. The Thinkwise Scheduler supports a variety of interaction methods, such as creating activities by clicking on empty time slots, editing them through double-click actions, and assigning external resources via drag-and-drop. In this blog, we’ll demonstrate each interaction technique and show you how to integrate them into the Scheduler we configured in the previous part. Interaction Methods Click to create a new Activity This feature allows users to click a time cell to initiate a task for quick data entry directly in the scheduler. Start by creating a new task ‘project_planning_scheduler_add_activity’. Add task parameters for all fields that are needed to create a new activity: Assign this task as a table task to the scheduler view. To ma

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Remco Kort
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Remco Kort
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Remco KortAdministrator
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Discover the Enhanced SchedulerBlog

Planning lies at the heart of every successful organization. Whether you're allocating resources, managing personnel, or scheduling production, having the right tools in place can make all the difference. With the release of Thinkwise Platform 2025.2, we’re excited to introduce a powerful set of enhancements to our Scheduler component—designed to help you plan faster than ever. This update brings hierarchical resource grouping, external drag & drop, and the ability to apply conditional layouts to both resources and time cells. These features give you much more flexibility and control over your Scheduler. In this blog, I’ll guide you through the essentials of setting up a Scheduler in Thinkwise, exploring each new feature along the way. This blog is the first part in a series on using the Scheduler. This first part is focused on setting up the scheduler. The second part focuses on interacting with the scheduler, and can be found here. Scheduler setup guide In this blog, we’ll create a p

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Remco Kort
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NathanCommunity Manager
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Introducing Testwise: A Playwright support library for the Thinkwise PlatformBlog

As a QA team within our Product Innovation department, we understand the need for efficient, reliable ways to test applications that are built to last forever. Quality is an essential pillar of our brand promise; we want you to trust our technology and enable you to develop your functionality 10X faster. See this old blog for some background reading on our role: We place a strong emphasis on end-to-end, user-focused testing—a shift-right approach—because it provides the level of confidence that we need to say we're delivering a quality product. For a system as complex as ours, investing in test automation is essential. It allows us to rely on consistent, repeatable checks, so that any manual testing efforts can be focused on where they’re most valuable: ensuring that new features and ongoing development meet our quality standards. Since we are shipping a low-code Platform -with which all of you build amazing Applications-quality is a shared responsibility. Both the quality of the Platf

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Styling of custom components in Light and Dark mode

Hi everyone, In our application (using Universal GUI), we have some custom components. We experience some problems when we want to style the custom components depending on choosen mode (dark / light) in the user preferences by the user. The custom component is presented in an <iframe> in the browser, however, within the <iframe> the css class ‘dark’ is not applied, causing the custom components not to be adjusted to the selected mode (dark/light). This makes UI/UX of application not as good as we want to. Any ideas how to solve this?

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Users cannot save cube views in Windows GUI

We are using the Windows GUI (2 tier). Recently users reported a problem that they cannot save their own created or changed cube views. Users can make the changes and save their cube views with no errors or messages showing, but afterwards the change has not been applied or saved to the IAM database (MS SQL server). As a admin user myself i can save the cube views with no problems as i have more rights on the database itself. We also recently upgraded our environment from 2023.1 to 2025.1. I suspect this has to do with the change in cube view preferences where cube views are split into cube views and cube view classic preferences. Also a change has been done in the upgrade where public rights have been revoked and assigned to specific roles. Our users have the end_user role. I have checked execute rights have been granted on below procedures and the task_delete_usr_pref_classic_cube_view. This is the case. Also the rights on the underlying tabels i have set to inserted, update, delete

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Mark Jongeling
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Mark Leunissen
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Mark LeunissenCaptain
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Uploading multiple files via drag and drop - Universal

Hi, I have been using the topic: Upload multiple files using the Universal GUI for drag and dropping files in my test environment. The test environment is hosted on Azure and uploaded the files to an azure storage. However, the Production environment is hosted on premise, therefore I wanted to test the drag and drop functionality on the acceptance environment (also hosted on premise). However, I can't get the drag and drop to work. I have changed the URL in the html to the right url. The HTML file is saved on the universal folder, same as the test environment. However, I just keep seeing the 'no preview available’. The file name column has a file upload control type to a file system storage location. Uploading and opening the files from the local storage works. Kind regards, Mark

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Process flow task loop universal 5 sucessfull executes means 5 times to cancel

Hi, We have a very basic, simple flow. In Windows GUI there is no problem, but in Universal GUI 2025.1.15.0.0, if i run the task succesfull 4 times i need to hit cancel 4 times, if i run it succesfull 6 times i need to hit cancel 6 times, and so on. Am I missing something obvious? is it a bug? You are meant to enter a palletnumber and click execute, and continue entering palletnumbers until you cancel the task.

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