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Since launch less than 2 years ago, the Model Context Protocol has become the de facto standard for integrating systems with LLM chat interfaces or AI Agents. MCP Servers are popping up everywhere, in varying quality when it comes to capabilities, security and governance. Either software vendors offer an officially supported MCP server, or else unofficial (often vibe-coded) MCP Servers pop up.As with any runtime component, an MCP Server for the Thinkwise Platform should work for all customers and all applications. Developing such a dynamic component takes a bit more time, but in return a Thinkwise-provided MCP Server works for all customers, all Application models and all future changes to your Application out-of-the-box. And since we develop the Software Factory and Intelligent Application Manager (IAM) with the Thinkwise Platform as well, we can implement MCP for the Software Factory and the Intelligent Application Manager in a similarly fast fashion as you can for your applications.
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
With Thinkwise Platform STS 2026.2.12, MCP support lands as a beta feature. Connect Claude, or any other MCP-compatible AI tool straight to the applications you build on the Thinkwise Platform: your data, your logic, your rules, with your application roles and IAM doing the security work.If you have never touched MCP before, you are in good company, and you will not be figuring it out on your own. This guide assumes zero prior knowledge and walks you, step by step, from what MCP is through your first authorized chat with your own application's data.Grab a coffee. In about twenty minutes your AI assistant will be able to query live data straight from your own application, and only the data your IAM roles allow. Once you get there, tell us what you built. We are learning what works best from the same use cases you are. What is MCPMCP stands for Model Context Protocol: an open standard that lets an AI assistant call out to external tools and data sources in a structured, predictable way.
The Universal GUI used to have a performance problem with ‘Combo’ lookup control so we defaulted to ‘Suggestions’. In the recent GUI’s the performance increased and also the functionality improved so that ‘starts with’ is shown before ‘contains’ in the result. So we are changing most look-ups to ‘Combo’.So I am wondering, is there still any reason left to use anything else than ‘Combo’ as a lookup control since it has the ‘Suggestions’ functionality included?
After entering a value in the filter form for a specific cube field, the cube does not seem to refresh. Pressing the refresh button on the action bar also results in no activity.I can only get the cube to refresh when I swap to a different tab (chart in this case) and back to the pivotgrid.What am I missing here?
Hi,I have a main grid (complaints) and a detail grid (complaint actions).This detail grid in my test shows 3 records: Scrolling thru the community I discovered that instead of double clicking on the row (as we used to in the Windows GUI) we need to double click on the tab!?When I do that I always get to see the contents of the first row, not the contents of the selected row!?I suspect that this isn't what it is supposed to do?Might it be that this is caused by the fact that we are still on platform version 2025.1 and universal gui version 2026.2.11.1.0 ? Or is this something else? Any ideas?
Struggling to even get a tree to shape no matter the options I set, I hope someone could advice me how to get this test scenario to work.I have a view that has the following columns:parent_id child_id grand_child_idAll columns make the PK.In an example this is the data (with lookups): I want to see something like (structure example, formatting is just for clarity):Parent A--Child A----Grand child A----Grand child B--Child C----Grand child CParent B--Child D----Grand child D----Grand child EI have changed the “Tree” settings under “Subject”. I have tried all combinations at “Tree” under “Component”. Chose different options for “Sort” with and without “Group until”.The screen type has the “Tree” as its component.All it ever shows is: Platform 2026.2I have compared it to an older product that still has the Windows GUI where a tree does work, but to no avail.What do I need to set to get the result as desired?
I have some changes in a DEVELOPMENT branch that I want to merge to the RELEASE branch. After creating the merge I exclude a particular line from being merged. What seems to happen after the merge is completed is that the excluded part is overwritten by the code from the RELEASE branch, so my original code is gone. Is this intentional? It looks like the merge is bi-directional.
We have a form with settings for customers that is used for 2 types of customer, where one of those is basically a parent to the other. For a lot of fields the rule is that the setting of the parent is valid as long as the field is empty in the form of the child.This works fine, but we would like to be able to show the value that is used for the parent in the form of the child so it is clear which settings are used for the child.I think this basically means we would like to use an expression as the default for the childs form. That way we can show the parent's value without actually having to copy and store the value to the field on the form of the child.
The Edit in Grid mode, as we knew it from previous versions, no longer seems to be available. Is there any plan to bring this functionality back?We would very much like to see it return, allowing end users to enable Edit in Grid for specific datasets. The ability to navigate from record to record and modify field values directly within the grid, without having to repeatedly click Save and Edit for each change, was very powerful.This functionality is also missed in the Software Factory, where it provided a much more efficient editing experience.Could you share whether this feature is on the roadmap?
Next Wednesday, 30 September, hundreds of customers, partners and IT professionals will come together at the Thinkwise Summit.Here’s some of what you can expect:See MCP in action Discover how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) connects AI with the Thinkwise Platform. Dive deeper during the sessions and see MCP in action in the Software Factory during live demos in the foyer. Explore what’s next for the Thinkwise Platform Get a closer look at the latest developments around AI, MCP, MQTT and the AI-Upcycler – and what they could mean for your applications and development process. Learn from other Thinkwise users Hear how organizations including Syngenta Flowers, Antea Group, Huuskes and the European Association of Urology use the Thinkwise Platform to develop their business-critical software. Meet the people behind the platform Have a question, want to discuss a specific topic or simply curious about what’s coming next? Use the Summit app to schedule a meeting with a Thinkwise specialist a
We have two different applications in one iam environment having two different urls for the custom component having two different url’s not in the same proxy.Is it possible to fill in a expression (sql) in the location (subject) setting for translation the url when the application is running? The solution of two different branches is not a nice one for maintenance. What could be a good solution?
Title: Azure SQL Serverless – Database does not auto-pause despite no activityHi,I have recently migrated my development environment to AZURE.The Thinkwise environment is running on Azure, and the SQL database is configured using the Azure SQL Serverless tier, with auto-pause enabled.I have scheduled all IAM/SF System Flows / IAM-related processes so that they only run during working hours, approximately 08:00–18:00.However, when I check the Azure SQL metrics, I can see that the database never seems to enter auto-pause, including during the night when there should be no SF/IAM activity.Is there anything in SF/IAM, or any specific setting/configuration, that I should check to make sure that no background process, connection, health check, or other activity is keeping the SQL database active?Any advice on how to identify what is preventing the auto-pause would be appreciated.Thanks!
As you probably noticed, we have launched MCP support for our Platform as a beta feature with release 2026.2.12! The initial communication has been about using MCP on customer applications. And because the Software Factory and IAM are built with the Thinkwise Platform itself, MCP is technically available for those applications too!Given the eagerness to work via MCP on the Software Factory, we invite you to start using it now. Keep the known limitations below in mind. Specifically, double-check that you are applying the best practice of setting your MAIN branch to Read only.Knowledge Session & WorkshopsBefore you start, we strongly recommend watching the recording of our Knowledge Session MCP on the Software Factory: application development with prompts:We are happy to help you get started with MCP on the Software Factory and have organized a bunch of Workshops. Make sure to enrol via the Community Events if you are interested!Known limitationsThe main reasons for not advertising t
For an image-upload control, is it possible to disable the hyperlink/download feature in the form (read mode)? It is annoying that clicking anywhere on the field opens a new browser tab with the image while the user is never interested in downloading the image in this case.In the example below, the image field is the full width of the page, so clicking anywhere right of the actual image opens a browser tab with the image.We already tried setting the ‘Show action button’ to ‘When editable’, but this doesn’t seem to have effect.
I have a question regarding refresh token lifetime configuration for OpenID Connect authentication.Is the refresh token lifetime configurable, and if so, what are the available options for extending it?Thanks!
The checkbox Available checks if all the process actions are available within a process flow. Now I have the challenge that I have different Table Tasks. Different roles for the table tasks but the processflow is the same for all of them. I want to keep it in one processflow but in order to have the process "available” they all need, in theorie, to have all the table tasks assigned to the role? Is it always necessary to have all the table tasks assigned to the role in order to have access to the processflow or is it possible to have the processflow available but not all the table tasks that trigger the processflow?It is not desirable to have all table tasks available to all roles that access the processflow, but to be sure it will work for the roles it seems necessary. Thanks in advance.
During my validations I got:Process variable has incorrect datatypeOutput returned by the process action may not be converted correctly into the process variable.Change the datatype of the process variable to the correct datatype or use a different process variable as output parameter. An overview of all supported process actions and their datatypes can be found in the documentation. The problem is that it is about the variables that are used as output for the FTP connector (non-file storage). And apperently those expect a certain datatype but I cannot figure out in de docs what datatypes these output parameters expect.Or I’m completely wrong in my assumption that that is what this validation tries to tell me….
We would like to have the option to hide the built-in action bar of a modal document in the process flow setup. This would be useful in scenarios where the modal document serves a specific task and closing or completing the modal is already handled in the process flow.Example use case: A modal document contains its advanced task for saving, completing, or closing a process. In such cases, the standard action bar does not add value, costs space and confuse users. We didn’t find a way to get this done by adding code to custom.css
Somehow there is a user that doesn't have access to modelrefresh and the Debugger window. I checked the settings but I am not able to find what is missing. The User has developer rights added (both sf_developer rightsgroup) If I simulate the user I can see it The User has cleared the cash and restarted the browserIs there anyone who might have an idea what this could be or what I am missing?It is the following functionality: I see thisUser sees this:
Just updated Indicium to 2026.2.13.1 and this message appears in the log:“No RDBMSType was specified in the "MetaSourceConnection" configuration. It will default to 'SQLServer'. Providing a value will become mandatory in the future.”This did not exists in the .12 version, so it seems to be added. I however cannot find a mention of it in the release notes or the documentation.What are the possible values here and is correct “SQLServer” the casing to use?Please also update the documentation accordingly, so one can find such information even if it is not a mandatory value yet.
Since our upgrade to 2026.2, we have encountered a critical issue with label printing. Labels are unexpectedly printed in Portrait instead of the configured Landscape orientation, causing the output to be cut off.After verifying the report layout, Software Factory settings, and printer driver configurations, we isolated the root cause to Indicium: 2026.2.10: Prints correctly in Landscape 2026.2.11: Incorrectly prints in Portrait 2026.2.12: Incorrectly prints in Portrait As a temporary workaround, we have rolled back to Indicium 2026.2.10. Given that this is an essential continuous production process, could this regression please be investigated so we can safely adopt upcoming Indicium releases?(See attached photo for the cut-off print result)
I am developing a Thinkwise Custom Component that uses the @thatopen/components package to load IFC files.The package uses web-ifc, which requires WebAssembly to load and process IFC files.The web-ifc.wasm file is successfully requested, but the browser blocks the WebAssembly module from being compiled/instantiated because of the Content Security Policy applied to the Thinkwise application.The following errors occur:wasm streaming compile failed: CompileError: WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(): Compiling or instantiating WebAssembly module violates the following Content Security Policy directive because 'unsafe-eval' is not an allowed source of script in the following Content Security Policy directive: "default-src 'self'".The package then falls back to ArrayBuffer instantiation:falling back to ArrayBuffer instantiationHowever, this is also blocked:WebAssembly.instantiate(): Compiling or instantiating WebAssembly module violates the following Content Security Policy directive.As a res
Hello, guys. We are migrating from the Web GUI to the Universal GUI. We are making the necessary tests for this and already upgraded the SF from 2024.2 to version 2025.3 and Universal and Indicium to version 2026.2.12.According to the release notes of version 2026.2.11 the filtering on a lookup display column with a data type other than VARCHAR should be working but in our case it is not.The look up display field domain is BIGINT and the field that is being looked up is INT , also the look up is on a table variant.Table variant:Column where the look up is configured:Look up configuration:The issue is: OData query is created with a single quote (‘) and this results in a bad request. If we try the same request but without the single quotes it works properly.Universal/Indicium generated OData query: Self-made query removing the quotes
Hello,We have a detail table (called “WIP”) that stops displaying because its name is automatically converted to lowercase, possibly after deployments, which breaks the existing reference.Deleting and recreating the reference fixes the issue temporarily.Do you know what could be causing the table name casing to change, and how can we prevent this so the reference remains valid? Is there an alternative solution besides renaming the table to lowercase? Thank you!
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