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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 would

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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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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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Tutorial 101: Hello TestwiseTutorial

  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 pointing to your Test project folder: ​  Setup project dependencies:Run the following

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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 Platfor

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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 t

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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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Universal GUI Editable Grid Performance

Universal GUI Editable Grid Performance IssuesInstalled software:Software Version Universal GUI 2025.1.14.0 Indicium 2025.1.14.0  Problem StatementThe Universal GUI seems to be less performant in various cases, when compared to the same functionality in (older) WebGUI / WindowsGUI.Specifically, the editable grid has significant performance implications, which makes the user interface unreliable. Upon pressing the downward arrow-key 3 times in succession in the editable grid. The UGUI registers only 2 button presses.The problem is not necessarily the delay, it is the discarding user-inputs that makes the UGUI unreliable in use.Possible CausesUniversal GUI version: we are on the latest version. Indicium version: we are on the latest version. Resource capacity: we host UGUI & Indicium on a server dedicated to this environment. Data quantity: this test was performed on an editable grid with 6 columns and 7 rows, without expression fields, nor triggers.This list does not spark

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Arie V
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Update Azure file storage secret using IAM Indicium API

Hi community, We are running multiple tenants (application per tenant) in Azure with a file storage in an Azure Blob container. We have enabled the ‘Encryption used’ option. We are facing a problem that the client secret  expires every 6 months and has to be reset using the ‘Set file storage key values (encrypted)’ (see the attached image)Any idea how we can update the encrypted client secret using the Indicium API of IAM? We are trying to automate the maintenance ;-)

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How to avoid duplicate entry or make column unique

Hello I have below Supplier  data model How can i prevent entering a duplicate value?In the portal, it is designed to add, edit delete but it allows to enter duplicate data I'm not sure how unique constraint works here but  I added an Indexes unique constraint but it doesn't work. Please advice Below is the values on index column, unique is also tickedThanks in advance

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Docker bad gateway

What could be causing a bad gateway message with an Indicium docker container?I've already verified that all containers (including traefik) are on the same Docker network (the default network made by docker compose).This is the line from the traefik log:502 Bad Gateway error="dial tcp 172.18.0.6:8080: connect: connection refused"According to “docker network inspect” 172.18.0.6 is the correct internal IP address for the Indicium container.This weirdly doesn't happen with the Universal container as it serves the login page just fine.Each container uses its own subdomain as the external host.This is my docker-compose.yaml:---services: proxy: image: traefik restart: unless-stopped ports: - 80:80 command: - "--providers.docker=true" - "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false" - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80" - "--accesslog=true" - "--log.level=DEBUG" - "--log.filePath=/logs/traefik.log" volumes: - "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/dock

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Dark mode for custom components in cooperation with the final TW application

Hello everyone,In our application we have a few custom components. Those custom components are integrated well. But there is one point where the integration of these components doesn't work as well: on the topic of the themes (dark mode and light mode). We now have to manually toggle the components to match the theme of the software, which is weird, why would the user need to toggle a component from light to dark mode or from dark to light mode when the software should do that automatically?Is there a way to know in what mode the software is? It would help to automatically switch the theme to the theme the application is already on, otherwise the overly bright component is highly distracting.So in short: is there a way to know whether the software is in dark or light mode, so we can change the components accordingly? 

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Anne Buit
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What replaces TSFReportMailer in Universal?

Users are used to open an email in Outlook, so they can check it or add another attachment, before they send it. In Windows we use the TSFReportMailer for this.   Will the same functionality also be available in Universal? 

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Arie V
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Blommetje
BlommetjePartner
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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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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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Is there a deployment center without required admin rights?

Hi. We have a remote desktop server for our users. And they sometimes need to do an update/upgrade of a client application (over VPN). it's just update of app db and sync IAM. Is there an option to do this without admin rights, which I prefer not to give out. 

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Universal, what is the logic behind showing the spinner (loading) icon?

What is the logic in universal if a spinner (loading) icon is shown or not. On some screens it’s shown while the data is loaded. On others it is not. This makes it very confusing because you are not sure if the data is still loading or if there is no data. Is there a subject setting that influences whether this icon is shown?Not shown: other subject the icon shows:  

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Jeroen van den Belt
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avanderveldenVanguard
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Copy from Word - without saving meta data

When we copy text from Word into our app (Universal GUI), all kind of meta data from Word is copied. This has no additional value, but fills the DB unnecessarily (and result in other issues).  How can we copy text from Word into our app, without losing the formatting and not copying the meta data from Word?

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Harm Horstman
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Harm HorstmanSuperhero
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Optimize scroll bar behavior code field

I try to make a full height code editor as detail tab.Is there any trick not get 2 parallel scroll bars? I tried is to set the height of the ‘Code editor‘ field to 1000. By doing this the most of the time the scroll bar of the text box is not visible, but as side effect the cursor jumps to the bottom of the field when switching to edit mode.See below. 

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Which document to preview

Hi,As I understood a document is previewed when it is the first column found in the table. Although in most situations this would suffice, I wonder if it is possible to have this be the first visible column in the table (i.e. based on the subject and layout procedure)?We already have all our documents (i.e. renditions) in a separate table, but within a document/rendition record we provide the possiblity for different storage options: cloud (Azure) or on premises (fileshare) which are based on different domains referencing their respective store definition. Based on the configuration of the system we want to show the cloud column or the share column. This can even be specified on the rendition type of the document (active documents in de cloud, archived documents on a share or vice versa). In any case, only one of those columns is visible at any time.Any thoughts in how this could be realized?

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Arie V
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Prefilter button

Hallo, Is there a way that the below prefilter buttons can customise the label instead of showing 1 char? example instead of showing 2, i can display 2022?These are the prefilter groups  

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Cube view

Hallo, I would like to check, the chart on my cube view, under the row has a number 2 which is I'm not clear where it comes from or how it derive. Please find below screenshots The volume comes from a Company (only 1 company)39 volume for 2 weeks and each weeks (start of the week) which are 30/06/2025 & 07/07/2025  has 22 and 17 volume.   What does day =2 means?  also how can i remove the 2 if i only require to show the week start date instead  on my Software factory, this is the setup on the cube  The Dimensions setup is below  Thank you in advance.  

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Merge base model into work: editable objects?

“Our philosophy is that Thinkstore solutions are a foundation—something you can build upon and tailor to your specific needs.” ​@Remco Kort  (From Black Box to Clear Logs | Thinkwise Community)How can we build upon Thinkstore solutions?When linking a base model to a work model, everything is read-only in the work model (which I understand). However I would have expected that using the task ‘Merge base models into work model’ would solve this, but this seems not the case. When using this task, ‘generated_by_control_proc_id’ is still filled with ‘Copied from base model’ leaving all objects from the base model still read-only in my work model. Am I missing something or is this a bug?  

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