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    Chris Kuip
    AIMMSian
    Chris KuipAIMMSian

    Control over the frequency of the vertical lines in a Gantt ChartImplemented

    On behalf of a customer, I forward the following idea: As a model builder, I would like to control the grid resolution in the Gantt Chart.  For instance, in the image below, I would like to draw a vertical grey line every hour, instead of every 3 hours.WebUI from enclosed AIMMS 4.85 projectThe associated AIMMS 4.85 project is attached. 

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    Madhu Krishnappa
    Forum|Forum|21 days ago
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    AIMMS Partner
    meikedewithAIMMS Partner

    WebUI Gantt chart: showing overlapping tasks on separate linesImplemented

    In several of our planning applications (currently built in AIMMS WinUI, discussion ongoing to rebuild them in WebUI), we have resources which can perform multiple tasks at once, and the planner needs to have a good overview of which tasks those resources are doing. In the WinUI, these tasks are shown on separate ‘lines’ in the Gantt chart (all belonging to the same resource, see first screenshot below) so it is possible to quickly get an overview of them all, read the text in the bar, easily click on or hover over a specific one, and approximately judge how many there are in parallel. In the WebUI, these tasks overlap (see second screenshot below, from the documentation), making the above much harder or even impossible.Would it be possible to change this, or add a setting such that the user can select whether he/she wants the bars to overlap or not?Thanks! WinUI: WebUI: 

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    Madhu Krishnappa
    Forum|Forum|21 days ago
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    AIMMS Partner
    meikedewithAIMMS Partner

    Show week numbers in WebUI Gantt chartImplemented

    Many of our customers, for example in the manufacturing, high-tech or logistics industries, work with and communicate in week numbers instead of dates (so ‘week 41’ instead of ‘August 24’). Unfortunately, in the WebUI Gantt chart currently only dates can be shown (as far as I can see), which makes it very inconvenient to work with for these customers, as users constantly need to convert dates to week numbers and back. Would it be possible to show both dates and week numbers, as is currently possible in WinUI Gantt chart? Or if not, to make this a setting such that one can choose to see week numbers instead of dates? Thanks!

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    Madhu Krishnappa
    Forum|Forum|21 days ago
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    AIMMS Partner
    stijndAIMMS Partner

    Improve webUI download/upload to Excel feature (make it less risky)On Backlog

    Our customers absolutely love (the idea of) the new table upload/download functionality in the webUI.However we're scared to turn it on, because the upload functionality is quite risky as it's easy to lose quite a bit of data quickly.For instance, when a table is filtered and exported (and changed a bit in Excel) and then uploaded again, all values that were filtered before are cleared, because they are not present in the Excel. A proposal to address this from both angles:Make the filtered export explicit and optional: add additional dialogue to give end-user choice to download all data, or just the filtered data (only when filtering is active) Provide an option to make the import more forgiving: create two separate upload actions: in replace mode (clears all values not present in the Excel) and in merge mode (doesn’t change values not present in the Excel). In addition, make it up to the app-developer to provide zero, one or two of these actions per table to the end-user.

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    S
    AIMMS Partner
    Forum|Forum|3 months ago
    Diego Perez-Urruti
    AIMMS Partner
    Diego Perez-UrrutiAIMMS Partner

    Allow Considered Periods Option In Control PanelDiscussion ongoing

    Would be great to allow users in SC Navigator to be able to quickly select/de-select which periods are considered in scope for a run from the UI (similar to selecting ‘Considered Products’ in the Control Panel) without having to manually remove them from the excel template.This would also allow them to create batch runs in the Scenario Navigator module to evaluate performance and results curves based on period selection.

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|4 months ago
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    JGOptExplorer

    Able to build model from python interfaceDiscussion ongoing

    Is there any proposal or plan to extend the functionality of aimmspy so that we can build the entire model directly from Python, similar to a solver’s native Python interface?At present, the interface seems to only provide functionality to interact with an existing model — such as updating or assigning data and running procedures. For example, I am currently unable to add a new variable or parameter from the Python interface.However, it would be extremely useful if the interface were extended to support full model creation in Python. This would provide greater control over the model and help bring more structure to the development process.

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    J
    Forum|Forum|4 months ago
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    Augustine KwwonExplorer

    log and message clearing function in REST API serviceDiscussion ongoing

    As a user of AIMMS applications in a large scale federated energy modeling framework, using AIMMS as endpoint, hundreds of times a night,I would like to manage the logging of AIMMS errors or messages on a per-request basis by clearing errors and messages in the beginning of each request so that a relevent copy of .err and log files produced during a API task can be saved with a particular request.The value of this user story is easier management of persisted logging information,including what logging can be safely cleared, and only relevant information gathering on particular API tasks warrant a root cause analysis can be collected. 

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    MarcelRoelofs
    Forum|Forum|4 months ago
    sandervlot
    AIMMS Partner
    sandervlotAIMMS Partner

    Add security measures to Azure Data Lake StorageOn Backlog

    Hi, With the new Azure Data Lake Storage being available to AIMMS Cloud users, it will be used more and more for storing and exchanging (sensitive) business data. It would be nice to have some more control over who can access the ADLS. Concepts like IP whitelisting would be very nice (or maybe even a must) to have. Could you consider adding that? Microsoft has a documentation page available with their recommendations: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/security-recommendations.  Best regards,Sander

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    Jan-Willem
    Forum|Forum|4 months ago
    sandervlot
    AIMMS Partner
    sandervlotAIMMS Partner

    Provide proper place to store secrets & configurationOn Backlog

    Hi, there are quite some environment-dependent configurations and secrets (database passwords, API keys) that are required for running AIMMS apps. Currently, I see modelers:Storing those secrets unencrypted in the AIMMS Central Storage. This is obviously not very secure.   Including those secrets in their AIMMSpack. This has the downside that you need to create separate AIMMSpacks for test & production environments, which I would consider a bad practice. Furthermore, in this situation you cannot create an AIMMSpack based on your git repo: you also need files outside of that repo (since secrets shouldn't be in git). This is risky and might (at some point) also hinder CI/CD practices.It would be nice to have a proper way to store secrets and configurations. For example, with Azure Key Vault (or something similar).

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    Jan-Willem
    Forum|Forum|4 months ago
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    m.dwiantoExplorer

    Delete widget from page tabImplemented

    Sometimes we need to delete widget. But it is only possible from “App” tab, not from “Page” tab. While in “App” we cannot see which one is unassigned. Good to have option to delete widget from “Page” tab. Or maybe just give marks in App tab to identify which widgets are not used. 

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|4 months ago
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    gorkemAce

    Support for Invoking Constraints by Library Scope (e.g., A:Constraints)Implemented

    Suppose A is my library/module.  It would be very useful if AIMMS allowed modelers to programmatically reference or collect constraints/variables defined within a specific library/module e.g., A::Constraints or A.getAllConstraints()” which would return the set of constraints that are in A. This would enable better modularization, selective model construction, and more scalable large-model development.I know there are workarounds this, like choosing constraints by a binary parameter, defining a set for the constraints you want to include, etc. but they all require manual overhead and careful maintenance effort. Best,Gorkem

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|6 months ago
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    AIMMS Partner
    rodrigo.mAIMMS Partner

    WebUI pages defined in librariesImplemented

    Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to create a WebUI page and save it in a library module.  My goal was to update an old WinUI page that we use in a library, transform it to a WebUI page, and distribute the library to other projects so they can also use the WebUI page. If there isn’t a way, I think this is a great feature to add. “As a developer (role) I need to be able to define WebUI pages in libraries (functionality), so I can distribute WebUI pages to other projects, the same way WinUI pages work currently (goal).”

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    Madhu Krishnappa
    Forum|Forum|7 months ago
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    AIMMS Partner
    RichardAIMMS Partner

    Can we make pages inactive (but visible in the menu)?Implemented

    I often use the first page as sort of "section header" to indicate the common topic of its child pages. Usually, this "header page" contains nothing, but can be opened. This is confusing. Could we make this page visible, yet unclickable?

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|7 months ago
    Chris Kuip
    AIMMSian
    Chris KuipAIMMSian

    Feature request: queue and wall clock timeouts on tasksDiscussion ongoing

    As an AIMMS application developer, moving from using AIMMS PRO solver sessions and AIMMS PRO solver license leases to AIMMS PRO API tasks on the AIMMS Cloud, I would like to be able to specify timeouts for the task created on wallclock execution time and on queueing time before task start.For instance as parameters wallclockTimeout and queueTimeout on a POST to the endpoints/tasks/{appName}/{appVersion}/{serviceName} /tasks/{appName}/{serviceName}Remarks:pro::DelegateToServer has argument timeout, defaulting to 1 hour (3.600.000 milliseconds). See also: https://documentation.aimms.com/pro/pro-delegate-adv.html#timing-out-requests pro::solverlease::solveModel, acquireTimeout argument, see https://documentation.aimms.com/pro/solver-lease.html#solver-lease-concepts workaround: within the procedure(s) that are called to execute a task, you can specify: a timeout on a solve, for instance using the option time limit, or the function GMP::Instance::SetTimeLimit measuring the wall clock time since the start of the task, for instance using the stopwatch library, see https://how-to.aimms.com/Articles/574/574-stopwatch-library.html

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
    Mstislav Simonenkov
    AIMMS Champ
    Mstislav SimonenkovAIMMS Champ

    Dark theme for AIMMS DeveloperDeclined

    As a Developer (role) I need the ability to switch to the dark theme in the AIMMS Developer (functionality), so I can minimize eye strain then working with the model (goal). I personally prefer to use dark theme In all applications there it is available, it would be great if such a theme appears in AIMMS Developer.List of software in which I work with dark themes :Notepad ++ https://draculatheme.com/notepad-plus-plus/ArcGIS PRO FME WorkbenchPyCharm

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
    davidmoolenaar
    AIMMS Partner
    davidmoolenaarAIMMS Partner

    VIM motion supportDeclined

    In order to increase efficiency while navigating around code, AIMMS introduced keyboard shortcuts. In combination with the os specific keybindings you can edit code using just the keyboard as well. This enables users to edit code without switching between mouse and keyboard all the time. VIM motions enable developers to increase code navigation and editing efficiency even more. (If you are not familiar with VIM motions see this article). While these motions were originally designed for the code editor VIM (Wikipedia), many popular IDE’s now support VIM motions through plugins (Like vscodevim for VS Code and ideaVim for Jetbrains products). Would it be possible for AIMMS to implement VIM emulation in order to use VIM motions to navigate around and edit code faster? Any ideas how this may be implemented by the community if no official support can be arranged? David

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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    AIMMS Partner
    Casper van DijkAIMMS Partner

    Highlighting occurrences of identifiersDeclined

    If I select an identifier in a procedure I'd like it if the other occurrences of that identifier are highlighted in a custom color.

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
    Diego Perez-Urruti
    AIMMS Partner
    Diego Perez-UrrutiAIMMS Partner

    AIMMS Spell-CheckerDeclined

    Developers could really use an AIMMS Spell-Checker. It’s annoying when someone submits a Pull Request and you only find small spelling mistakes in the comments thorughtout the code, and you then have to request these small changes and review them again after. Having an automatic spell-checker, at leats for the code (no identifer names) would be great! Is there anything on the roadmap?

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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    AIMMS Partner
    Tijn van den HoogenbandAIMMS Partner

    PRO API latest version numberDeclined

    When using the AIMMS PRO API documentation to implement a procedure call by means of a web request, the ProjectVersion property of JobConfig defines the version number of the application that the API has to use.It is not possible yet to always use the latest version of an application from within a PRO API call. On the cloud it is possible to open the latest version of an application with the ‘tag/latest’ attribute, setting ProjectVersion as ‘tag/latest’ or ‘latest’ in the PRO API would be a nice addition. As of now, the API script needs to be changed with each new version of an application.

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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    tjokes1Enthusiast

    Enhanced Search to include WebUIImplemented

    The global search (<ctrl>+<shift>+<f>) searches the aimms project, but does not search the webui json file. This means I usually end up searching in aimms and then searching the same thing in a text editor with the json file open. It would be much more convenient if both could be searched within aimms.

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
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    m.dwiantoExplorer

    Search bar in Webui 'Page' configuratorDiscussion ongoing

    create a search bar to easily go to webui page by typing the name

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
    gdiepen
    AIMMS Champ
    gdiepenAIMMS Champ

    Allow for customizing gantt chart tooltip when changing a jobDiscussion ongoing

    See discussion in thread:  Right now, you can have a tooltip/hovertext for each of the jobs in a gantt chart. However, when you modify a job (modifying start/end-time) there is only a fixed tooltip: Would be nice if we could customize this tooltip also and provide some more feedback to the user while the job is being changed

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
    Pieter
    AIMMS Partner
    PieterAIMMS Partner

    SCN: Lane color by volumeDeclined

    As an end user I need a different lane color based on volume (e.g. green – orange – red), so that I can easier see what the large lanes are.I know there is the option to show Lanes by volume, and then the thickness changes.

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
    Pieter
    AIMMS Partner
    PieterAIMMS Partner

    SCN: Clear descriptions of outputDeclined

    As an end user, I need more clear descriptions of the output tables and columns (especially in Results tab ‘Production’), so it is clear what is meant by Capacity, Volume, BOM Capacity Consumed (is it in tons, hours, etc.?).

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago
    Pieter
    AIMMS Partner
    PieterAIMMS Partner

    SCN: Always show input columnsImplemented

    As an end user I need the input columns always being shown, so I can easier change data and run scenarios.If you have not put any data in some columns (like Minimum Capacity) in the template, these columns are not shown in the input tables.

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    gabiservidone
    Forum|Forum|8 months ago

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