Release notes

232.3.0

App Studio version 232.3.0 includes U4 Components version 0.0.204 and U4 App Extensions 0.0.41.

New features

• Recovery of unsaved changes is now possible in your App if a session is shutdown unexpectedly.
• New Interactions properties are added to allow a component to be set to hidden, disabled or read-only based on optional rules.
• The ERPx Public API resource is added to allow easier integration with ERPx API endpoints when defining resources.
• Importing and exporting data from Excel files (.xlsx) is added to the Grid component.
• The Grid component can now be set to allow editing. When set, users can add rows and reset the grid to its default state.​
• Validation properties and a Field validation action are added​ to control field validation in your Apps.
• Recommended App Studio service limits are now published.​

Minor maintenance enhancements

• Toast actions now allow long headings and message body text to be displayed by hovering over the heading and expanding the body text.
• Improvements to Select and Typeahead web components. "No option provided" in the Select field is now handled and matching results in the typeahead appear in bold.

Deprecated functionality

• Templating is no longer supported in Plain object resources.
• The App Studio About information is removed from the main menu.

Fixes included in this release

• Logic flow events did not have a Delete button.
• If you published your App from the Canvas toolbar and it contained unsaved changes, the last saved version was published and your changes were lost.
• An App with components appeared as empty the first time it was published.
• It was possible to use the same Template ID in components, which affected the templating references for the components.
• Default format of the Text component generated an error when trying to preview the App.
• Filtering an option array using Liquid in the Options field of the Select component was not possible.
• When the text in a Select with filtering component was deleted. the corresponing component value was not deleted.
• The list of options in the Select with filtering component appeared empty after filtering with a text that returned no matches.

Known issues

None.

231.1.0

New features

• A Logic flow section is added to the main toolbar to allow you to define the logic flow for your app by configuring a Launch event and connecting one or more of the following actions to it:
  • HTTP Request - links REST API operations (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, GET, DELETE) to the Launch event
  • Toast - defines a toast message
  • Modal - allows you to display information modals in cases where you want to show information that requires a response from the users of your app
• A Logic map section is added to the Canvas for the clickable components Button and Icon button. This lets you define the following actions for a Click event for the clickable component:
  • HTTP Request - links REST API operations (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, GET, DELETE) to the Click event
  • Modal - allows you to display information modals in cases where you want to show some information that requires a response from the user
  • Reset - resets the status of the form to the status when it is loaded
  • Toast - defines a toast message
• When changing field Template IDs all references are now automatically updated in all places where Liquid templating is allowed.
• The Export option is now available from the Dashboard.
• Enhancements to Canvas Properties section:
  • Component properties are grouped into logical groupings to provide a clearer distinction between the various properties.
  • The look and feel of the component properties is updated.
  • The available list of Icons is now displayed in the component properties.
  • Properties input field values can now be expanded to allow easier Liquid template scripting. Note that no JSON validation is done in this editor.
  • The Styles tab is renamed to Advanced.
• App Studio tooltips improvements:
  • Styling is improved to provide a better look and feel.
  • Titles are reviewed and updated to ensure language consistency.
• Performance improvements:
  • Support is added for ETag HTTP response headers in Apps for improved caching performance.
  • Displaying large amounts of data in selectors is improved.

Minor maintenance enhancements

• Apps created in previous versions are updated to work with the new Logic map functionality.
• The use of hyphens "-" is now allowed in the URL when publishing an App.
• The App name is now shown in the browser tab when previewing the App and when it is published.
• The session time is now increased from one hour to 24 hours.
• The resource type name is changed from REST to HTTP.
• The login tenant ID is checked when opening an App in the Renderer and the user is redirected to log in to the same tenant if required.​

Fixes included in this release

• Different inputs configured to display data from different resources resulted in data only being displayed in one input.
• Liquid templating was not properly resolved when it originated from a field and was contained within an HTTP resource URL.
• Header functionality did not work such that the headers defined in the Resources section were empty.
• Header functionality did not work if the value originated from a plain object resource.
• LiquidJS tags were not resolved correctly.
• It was possible to modify a published App if the App was published from the editor.
• WordSpecial pattern did not work as expected.
• When adding a Wizard, the Finish button persisted on the added steps and gap on header and spacing issues occurred.
• When you applied the filter row inside the grid it was not shown in the editor, and only appeared when you saved the App and opened it again.
• When you published an App from within the editor and clicked the Go to Dashboard button it redirected to the Extension Kit flows.
• Alignment issues in the editor and with layout margins when previewing an App.
• When trying to select an item from a long list of options, the arrow keys did not move the scrolling window.

224.0.0

New features

• Enabled Drag and Drop components editing in App Studio Canvas.
• Users can now create new Apps selecting a starting Template.
• Added the Preview functionality for all Apps.
• Added the Publish feature. It is now possible to publish Apps both in ERPx or as standalone.
• App Studio now offers Multi-Tenant support.
• App Studio now supports Liquid Template Language.
• App Studio is now secured by Unit4 Identity Services.