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I’d like to configure the system to read the LDAP list of users (Name and SamAccountName). I have perused the documentation on creating an LDAP path, and defining ‘entities’ to allow for data retrieval. However, I am utterly lost, as I have no knowledge whatsoever if the underlying structure to be able to make out the definition of the ‘entity’. This seems to be untestable in a step by step way, you have to have the server, organisation, etc all in place to do a test, and I don’t know if my selected answers for any of them are in the right ballpark so I can’t configure a baseline test. Has anyone got a simple ‘person’ entity for LDAP I can ‘borrow’? Regards, Iain

We recently observed that fields with vertical scrollbars were behaving oddly.  If you clicked in the field, you lost the text.  Once you clicked somewhere else, the text came back. We narrowed it down to our INI setting for NoEditBox for Transparency=T.  Once we removed this setting the vertical scrollbar fields worked as expected.  Of course, now we had to go modify any NoEditBox fields where that transparency=T was no longer inherent.Has anyone else seen this behavior?  

Is there a parameter which can be applied to the installer which does NOT attempt to install the urouter, and/or tomcat and the relevant users and groups? When we install clients we don’t need any of these, and it is sometimes giving us permissions issues trying to create users we won’t use, preventing installation. After a successful install we delete the services, so as not to leave listeners on ports which aren’t going to be used. But I’d much rather not configure this stuff in the first place (the user(s) are still created which is a potential back door to logging on to the machine….) Also a parameter which allows us to control where the installer is ‘unzipped’ to, as certain client installs are failing because the unzipped files cannot be accessed. Regards, Iain

Rocket® Uniface Pulse | August 2026  Welcome BackHi, Uniface Community! Welcome to Rocket® Uniface Pulse, the refreshed newsletter experience for the Uniface community—created to bring you timely product insights, customer resources, and community updates in one place. Whether you've been part of the Uniface community for years or recently joined us, our goal is to help you get more value from your investment and stay informed about what's ahead. This year's customer conversations have focused on modernization, upgrades, observability, AI, and future application development strategies. We look forward to continuing those discussions through upcoming events and educational sessions.  Symposium Highlights and Resources We're continuing to build on the momentum from the Uniface Symposium, including discussions around:  AI and application development  OpenTelemetry and observability  Version control  Product roadmap priorities  Future platform innovation You’ll see additional resources

As part of our slow migration from CS to DSP, I have a form with an HTML widget, (the only field painted).  On the loaded DSP I have an attributes only field (button) with a call to unifaceTriggers in the onClick. This is supposed to call another instance which runs crystal reports and produces a print. The first click on this field performs the actions as appropriate. After which, none of the fields in the DSP are responsive. I can't type in text areas, I can (apparently) click one radio group, but the onChange is not fired, clicking the 'button' which just worked does nothing.  To try and find the issue, the uniface trigger in the form is now  askmess "Printing" return 0 But the issue persists.  The onclick trigger I am clicking is  webtrigger onClick javascript p=this.getParent(); f=p.getField("PPV_PREP_ID"); id=f.getValue(); rpt=p.getInstance().getEntity("FILTERS.NOMODEL").getOccurrence(0).getField("D_REPORT_FILE").getValue() if (typeof window.unifaceTriggers === "function") {

We have had a problem since updating uniface to ‘recent’ patches (16, 32, and now 42). The Global Search from the ADDITIONAL.uar appears to lock up and never come back. There is no progress indicator on the latest version (I’m sure it used to tell you where it was looking in U9...) Is anyone else encountering this? Or do you not use it because XXX. Please let me know if it’s working for you. I did try replacing the uar file with the latest from the downloads, no change in behaviour. Hey Unifacers, any chance of making the source more ‘open’ so I could have a hack at it? Regards, Iain

I have written a simple ‘login’ form as a DSP. When run in chrome focus is placed in the ‘username’ field. When run using $widgetoperation("LoadURL",v_url) in a uniface form, with the only visible field being the html widget, (mapped top, bottom, left. right) no field has focus, and tab is required to get focus on the username field. I have tried setting $prompt to the html field just before the edit command. And using the .focus() property of the name field in a webactivate of javascript at the very end of the exec trigger in the dsp. Putting an alert in the javascript indicates the focus is set before the ‘placeholder’ values are removed from the data (and the labels etc assigned) so I think that is too early. Is there a trigger fired when uniface has done all it’s work on populating the fields and labels using ux- or can someone tell me why the behaviour is likely to be different between cefrender and chrome for gettinf the focus in the first place? Regards, Iain 

Our IT services have employed a company to test vulnerabilities. They are reporting an out of date Oracle Java version on our machine, which is patched to patch 10.4.3.042What do people know about updating the Java version independently? Is it ‘safe’ to do so? Or will bits of the uniface environment stop working?  Where is the installation folder to overwrite, or is that automatic?  (afterthought) WHat happens when we patch uniface, does it reset, or is it smart enough to not update a later version? Regards, Iain

Before you get carried away I don’t mean you can do any coding in uniface.  In fact, you can ask about the $hits and it may suggest you have a dodgy stomach. 🤣 What I did which is something I have found needed in many companies but with no easy solution.  How do I get an ERM for my project.  The problem is it either takes too long and is unusable, or it simply can not be done as we hold relationships in uniface and not in the database. So, I tasked it to AI.I gave AI the DICT data for fields, tables (± 1000 of tables), subtypes, relations, keys… so 5 files of data. I thien started chatting with AI. The result is a stand alone .html file.  You can zoom, wildcard the tables, see the relationships, correct any overlaps.  For more features I would suggest chatting a bit more. The source code is easily readable but seems to consist of lots of drawing lines.  You probably would not want to modify the code manually. So, the easy bit is to give it the data, then you need to chat until it give

Good afternoon, I would like to ask about the E-Learning that appears in the “Road Map”, for us in very important. You can inform us how we can review the courses and when all of them will be ready to use.Thank you

Hi all? I installed the latest Patch  (044) in my development.After transfering a form to test, I get an error .[] User action failed to complete. Unexpected exception. [error=-100003] Repository data found, of which the K-version is too high. The form is imported but I can’t open the IDE in test and prod any more :  

Hi all,I am trying to trace down an annoying issue related to opening files in Uniface Runtime but unfortunately I am not able to identify an origin and a solution.Here it is the scenario:    - A centralized server (Windows 2019 Datacenter) sharing a disk    - All users (normally 120 but up to 150 concurrent) refers to this server to startup a Uniface application in C/S mode    - Log is activated for all sessions ($ioprint = 1)The system is up’n running 24x7 and issues I am going to list are happening mainly from 8:00 to 20:00 when most users are at work but there are cases also outside this timeframe like in the evening (20:00 to 24:00)  and also in the middle of the night (00:00 to 06:00).Issues:    - 20% (extimated) = daily Uniface sessions terminating without any signal or message or other… nothing!    - 79% = Session unable to write log file on shared disk (message:    ULOG Error: Failed to write to .\log\[NETWORK_NODE_NAME]_[PROCESS_PID].log) in this case a UNIxxxxx.log file is c

The ISO 7-Layer model was the starting point for interpretation of the model. The diversity of platforms and technologies spanned both the network layer and the language set utilized by the operating system AND database. These inter-complexities were a hardy challenge to debug and further implement.I’ll not list all platforms and operating systems or databases. These still live in the PAM today.AppleTalk, NetWare, Microsoft, IBM, Novell all had different TCP stacks for network communication.DB3, TXT, ORA, SYB, INF, MSS - all databases with their own functional peculiarities and implicit value to the growing information technology business-scape.The ability to write in one place and run on soo many devices. Do I dare mention other runtimes still around today?The Refresh’ing-erSeeing UNIFACE today these concepts evolved very nicely. Containerizations, purpose-built runtimes, security-enforcement, platform-independent integration capabilities, Wow! In UTF8/16-Unicode;→Inside automation ha

I've had a careful look (as opposed to a man look) on the wishes list screen, and I can't see a method of adding a new one any more (ISTR it used to be a 'fly-in' button on the right-hand side). I've gotten through to Jira direct, and there's a Create button, but that only allows for the support desk project, (USL?) not the wishes (UNP). Please let us know when we can add wishes again. Regards, Iain

I'm having trouble adding blank lines, for example to create a new trigger; I can only do it by pasting lines and writing over them. Also, I haven't been able to use the GOLD Key.

I am trying to look at changing to using the new UX widgets. The ux-button documentation states there’s a property “Icon” which Defines the name of the icon as it exists in the ui-fabric-core library. If name is not specified, no icon is displayed. The default is no icon.  I can find no other references to ui-fabric-core by searching in the documentation, nor does it apparently show up sensibly in my webapps folder(s). How can we find out the name of the icons available?  How can we add new icons so they are available to the ux-button (or others)?  RegardsIain

Good evening, I am testing the programmes following the upgrade to Uniface 10.4.3 and am encountering issues when calling a service located in another repository.For example, from application A, I call it using `newinstance "MY_SERVICE", LV_HANDLE` and get error code -58.MY_SERVICE is referenced in the ASN in the [FILES] section as MY_SERVICE.SVC          \\server\qxsrv10\PROJECT\SVC\MY_SERVICE.SVCI can’t find a solution.Has this happened to anyone else? Anna Lisa

 Practically every solution needs unique identifiers. It’s a simple concept—but an essential one—used in almost every system, past, present, and future.While there are many approaches to generating unique IDs, choosing the right one matters.This short video demonstrates a quick and elegant way to generate unique ID values with minimal effort.

Our environmentUniface 10.4.03.014. MsSql driver U5.2 connection pooling:off procs : on The stored procs for INS/DEL/UPD/FET are re-created for all entities used in our application.Our problem:           - we see following statements when tracing our application.                          create procedure dbo.[log_buffer_INS]  and othersOur questiondoes this harm the performance why does uniface needs to create these procs if they are existing?One special remarkwe do use different drivers that refer to other databases

Hi FreaksWe have an archive system (not written with Uniface) consisting of a server and clients. The server and clients communicate via HTTPS. The server also allows a third-party system (in this case, a Uniface application) to communicate with it via HTTPS/REST.That works so far.Now I have some very large files that I want to download from the server. When I use the archive client, a PDF file over 400 MB in size appears in seconds.But when I try to download the file in Uniface, it takes over twenty minutes!What is slowing Uniface down so much here? (It can’t be the server, the HTTP interface, or the network.)Does anyone have any idea which parameters I need to pass to DUMP_FILE_CONTENTS so that it also downloads in seconds here?TIAIngo

 Nobody likes maintenance downtime, missed SLAs, or broken communication in a live application.But what happens when you need to reconfigure your production uRouter—deploy an additional solution, repartition an existing one, or enable a debug path—all without disrupting the running estate?This short video shows you exactly how to do it.

Microservices with Uniface in DockerAuthors: Tony Rusinovic, Jonke Korzelius and Jorge Núñez-OrellanaBackgroundIn our article '5 Reasons to put microservices on your To-Do list in 2021 ' we presented the benefits of deploying applications as Microservices. As follow-up we want to share our thoughts on Microservices deployment with Uniface, the role of containerization, and planned product enhancements that will help you to deploy Uniface applications as Microservices. It is also a topic of the Uniface Universe webinar on June 10th.                                 Do you want to know our thoughts on how to assist you in deploying Uniface Microservices?IntroductionAt Uniface, we always try to enable you to embrace technological trends to serve your business. With the arrival, and hype, of Microservices, we want to explore in which area we can help you most.We hypothesize that if w