Release notes

2024.3 Release

March 2024. 35 changes across the platform.

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Release
Mar 15, 2024
Changes
35

Screens and User Experience

Screen Designer Panel Restructuring

The 2024.3.0 release features a significant update to the way one of our flagship designers is laid out. With this release, the Screen Designer has been reorganized to group all "panel" elements into a consistent tabbed layout on the right-hand side of the screen. This means the Toolbox panel, previously located on the left side of the screen, is now found in the Elements tab in the right-hand panel. Panels with sect…

New panel navigation to access Screen Designer elements, properties, and other configuration
New panel navigation to access Screen Designer elements, properties, and other configuration

Screens and User Experience

New Button Elements

The March release includes two new button elements, supporting more complex arrangements of flow and action buttons in screens. The first of these is a new "Button Group" Layout element. The Button Group acts like a container, but only allows flow or action buttons to be placed inside it. These buttons will be visually grouped together on the screen, allowing related actions to be tied together to clarify the interfa…

Add, Update, and Delete buttons placed in a Button Group
Add, Update, and Delete buttons placed in a Button Group
Add, Update, and Delete buttons placed in a Split Button
Add, Update, and Delete buttons placed in a Split Button

Screens and User Experience

Resizable Panel Element

This month's release includes another new space-saving Layout element: a Resizable Panel. This element behaves very similarly to the panels in our own designers - in fact, it's the same underlying code! Resizable Panels allow screen designer users to drop in a container that can be resized by the end user to fit their needs, allowing those end users to decide how much or how little space to devote to the content. Thi…

Resizable Panel element used to make the filter section on a table screen resizable
Resizable Panel element used to make the filter section on a table screen resizable

Screens and User Experience

New Element Configuration Properties

The March 2024 release also includes a number of new element configuration properties, making existing elements more versatile. Text Display Element: First up, the Text Display element has five new properties to configure layout, font size, and font color for the label and data. Table Element: Next up, Table elements have several new properties to further disable interactivity for tables, which is useful in some scre…

A Text element with new size, color, and layout properties set
A Text element with new size, color, and layout properties set
A container with different borders configured for each edge
A container with different borders configured for each edge

Screens and User Experience

Login Error Debugging Information

In addition to the new and improved screen elements, the 2024.3.0 release also includes an improvement to the login screen and process specifically aimed at helping administrators when their users encounter issues while logging in. When a user fails to successfully log in, that user can now hover over a question mark next to the error message to view more information. In addition to some error-specific information, t…

Login page with additional error information
Login page with additional error information

Edge and Gateway

New

  • Added additional error handling around status update calls to catch edge case crashesIntegration Team › Edge Gateway

Orchestration and Data Flows

New

  • Added "Module Not In List" filter to Data Flows tableOrchestration Team › Data Flow Designer

Improved

  • Updated to verify message size to prevent attempts to write excessively large log messages to the databaseOrchestration Team › Log Capture
  • Updated Input Schema and Output Schema sections in Saved Transform Editor to use new Schema Builder inputOrchestration Team › Scripting Language

Security and Administration

New

  • Added help icon tooltip to communicate additional login error information, such as authentication event ID, to help administrators debug potential issuesData Team › Security
  • Added Application Development tenant type to build environmentsData Team › Security

Improved

  • Temporarily reverted change preventing access control policy modifications on custom tenantsData Team › Security
  • Updated error message for administrative actions to clarify that users need to switch to the administration tenantData Team › Security

Fixed

  • Fixed several edge case bugs causing incorrect error messages to return during authenticationData Team › Security

Data Models and API

New

  • Added integration tests for default sequence values, required fields, unique fields, and unique required fieldsData Team › Schema Designer

Improved

  • Updated service state rehydration to more efficiently filter models to reduce startup memory consumptionData Team › Data Change Capture

App Building and Packages

New

  • Added a skeleton loading UI while navigation panel is loadingUser Interface Team › Application Designer

Screens and User Experience

New

  • Added a Button Group screen element which visually groups buttons togetherUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added a Split Button screen element, supporting a hybrid button/action menuUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added Resizable Panel screen element which creates a user-resizable panel in screensUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added Disable Dragging To Reorder Columns property to tables to prevent dragging to reorder columnsUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added Disable Dragging To Hide Columns property to tables to prevent dragging to hide columnsUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added Hide Table Header property to tables to hide column headersUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added border configuration properties to container elementsUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added Justify Content , Label Font Size , Label Font Color , Data Font Size , and Data Font Color properties to display text elementUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added Disable Hover Effect and Disable Ripple Effect properties to Action Button elementUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Added "required" validation error message and visual display to icon picker inputUser Interface Team › Components

Improved

  • Updated to latest favicons library versionUser Interface Team › Framework
  • Updated scroll behavior to ensure consistent padding around screen contentsUser Interface Team › Framework
  • Updated role menu behavior to correctly utilize menu icon and title properties in the sidebarUser Interface Team › Framework
  • Restructured layout to group all designer panels under tabs on the right hand side of the screenUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Updated auto-save feature to not save when screen is deployed, and to display a green checkmark on the save icon instead of snackbar on successful saveUser Interface Team › Screen Designer

Fixed

  • Corrected a bug causing data transforms on form inputs to behave inconsistently after initial form data loadUser Interface Team › Framework
  • Corrected a bug that could cause inconsistent tab width for vertical tab bar elementsUser Interface Team › Screen Designer
  • Fixed a bug causing the cron visual builder to not output a cron stringUser Interface Team › Components