ThingWorx Ideas

Hello all,   It would be really nice if some transaction mechanism could be setup in ThingWorx services. This transaction can be commited or rollbacked if developper catch an exception and explicitly rollback the transation.   For instances, as a pseudo algo: Open transaction Insert line in datatable Create Thing1 Insert Value Stream Exception raised Rollback called -> Every previous operation should be reversed.   Such mechanism may bring some more confidence about data integrity inside ThingWorx.   Thanks for reading. Guillaume ... View more

A PDF extension should be available as a basic feature of thingworx in particular it should be possible to save a Mashup as a PDF in a local repository. This could be useful to download data/reports from mashup or send scheduled email with reports attached.   The old PDF extension is not available any more, and it was not compatible with latest TWX versions. Moreover in some cases it was tricky and slow to run  ... and also it creates a raster PDF instead of vectorial ... because it makes a "screenshot" of the mashup at server side and encapsulate it on a PDF.   May be a print-to-pdf ran at server side could be faster and also generate a vectorial PDF ? ... View more

ThingWorx Azure IoT Connector relies on the connection string to connect to the associated storage account. We would like to create a feature request to have the Connector authenticate to the storage account using an identity rather than the connection string. ... View more

Currently the System User can be allowed Visibilty/Runtime(ServiceInvoke) permissions to allow any user to invoke that service from within 'another' service for which the user does have ServiceInvoke permissions. The suggested enhancement would be to be able to specify in the runtime permissions which users/groups could run that service as System User, and/or from within which other [Entity].service(s) that service is allowed to be invoked. ... View more

Currently snippets are not extendable, i.e. users can't provide their own snippets. I suggest to open this up to users can provide their own snippets to their environment.   This would also help to foster their specific coding standards. ... View more

The current ThingWorx 8.5 solution uses non-encoded asterisk (*) in URLs as a part of the composer user interface. The use of non-encoded asterisk (*) in URLs is a security issue that introduces the possibility of CSS attacks. This is an issue for customers that deploy ThingWorx in highly secured environments.   This enhancement request is to have the ThingWorx product updated to either remove the use of asterisk (*) in URLs or to properly encode them.  ... View more

I need a widget to copy data to the clipboard.   This functionality was also requested by another community member: https://community.ptc.com/t5/ThingWorx-Developers/Copy-to-clipboard-feature/td-p/518400 ... View more

I would like to be able to have a user returned to the FormLogin page when their session idle time causes them to automatically log out.    I think it would be a good idea to have one of the following implemented: a checkbox on the either the Organization's page or the User's page to choose whether or not to have Thingworx automatically navigate to the FormLogin page when their session times out the ability to retrieve a user's current idle session time ... View more

Thingworx should provide an API to upload to Thingworx repository a SW package file together with an associated metadata file. Thingworx should verify that each SW package in the repository has a related metadata file and provide feedback to the external system in case of a mismatch or when a file pair with the same file names is already present. ... View more

We would like the ability to select columns to remain stationary while the remaining columns to the right scroll. ... View more

Currently we have to provide the CA/Intermediate Certs explicitly to the Agent in a .pem file, in a completely undocumented fashion.   In a .NET edge environment it would be advantageous for the edge to simply look in the Windows Trust Store to see which CA's are trusted. This would make certificate management far simpler and more secure, rather than duplicating the work that Microsoft already do to push latest Root/CA certs in Windows updates. ... View more

During the current ThingWorx Fundamental Training, a participant was wondering why State Definitions did not propagate inheritance like thing templates?  This is a great question that would follow the Template idea in ThingWorx where all default State Definition properties in a mashup would update if the State Definition updated as well.  Any overridden value would remain the same.. ... View more

When searching for entities in ThingWorx Composer it is currently necessary to type the entire and complete name of the entity or use a regex to find it. This is clunky and not industry standard. I propose the search use a more intelligent algorithm, searching inside names by default. The regex functionality can be moved to an advanced search as to not remove that utility.   For example, if I search for wrench:     I should see these options since they include the word wrench: ... View more

Add description in the Composer UI of propertyNames infotable for GetNamedPropertyValues service. Please see the attachment. The proposed description would be  “Infotable of DataShape EntityList”, so that any developer could see what is the required input format.     ... View more

This is something that should be implemented. The shapes should also have a label property that can be assigned to them, and have the same positioning options as the value display widget (left-center-right, top-center-bottom).   Shapes are used as visual indicators. Visual indicators are nothing without text displayed on them. ... View more

We would like to have a video player extension supported by PTC in order to play videos. The extension should work into a collection; The extension should have a propriety to set if the video should be automatically played or not; The extension should allow video fullscreen; The extension should allow video download; The extension should work on  iPad (both Safari and Chrome) and on Desktop – Mac OS Safari. ... View more

Production downtime for a license update seems unnecessary - suggestion is that this should be updateable without downtime. ... View more

Our company is beginning to use Thingworx to pull data from Windchill and a standalone database. One feature that we would like to implement is the ability to read the relationships between WTUsers and WTGroups. An example follows: 1. Thingworx displays a list of WTGroups from Windchill and the user picks a group from the list. 2. After the user picks a group, a new service fires which queries the users in that group and provides the user with a new list to choose someone from the group.   Unfortunately the relationships between WTGroups and WTUsers are stored in WindchillDS and not in the Windchill database. This means that we are unable to gather this information because Thingworx does not currently support reading data from an LDAP. ... View more

Just like when you create a new file in all IDEs and they show up with a default code snippet (usually printing out "Hello World!"), it is necessary for Thingworx to have the option to insert default code when creating a service. ... View more