EDELOG 6.1

Major New Features

Unified Support for 3rd-Party Apps

Edelog 6.1 introduces a unified service to register and execute third-party apps. Right now Edelog supports two ways to integrate apps into Edelog:

• As dedicated app that can be launched from the new "All Apps" section

• As database extension which can be added to enhance the functionality of Edelog's database system.

For our customers and partners this opens up the opportunity to implement use case specific features or enahnce/replace existing Edelog functions with custom functions.

Third-party apps can be integrated via iframes or as link to an external application. We're looking forward to providing an SDK that will allow third-party apps to be executed as native Edelog applications.

Automations for Classic Forms

Automations have been added to Classic Forms. With Automations users can execute automated actions after a Form has been completed or when a new Form has been started.

For Edelog customers on Dedicated Hosting or Hosting On-Premises custom Automation actions can be defined.

This is the first Automation feature we've ported over from the previous Cuse system. We're planning to indroduce Automations for databases in an upcoming release.

Unified Data Sync Layer

With Edelog 6.1 we're introducing a new unified API layer for data sync services. This will allow 3rd-party services ( like CRM or ERP systems) to selectively sync data with Edelog.

You can register mulitple data sync services per database and one sync service can access multiple databases at once.

Data sync services can be configured from database settings.

Administrators can choose if users can still write records per database by hand, create new records or delete existing records.

The new unified Data Sync Layer builds on top of a service-oriented microservice architecture. Therefore, each sync service has to be hosted and deployed separately. Conclurer offers matching hosting options to deploy and manage those microservices in Conclurer Cloud.

Later this year, Conclurer will release a Data Sync Service SDK that will allow Conclurer customers and partners to create data sync services by themselves.

New Features and Non-Breaking Changes

App Layer

• A new section "All Apps" has been added to Edelog. This will allow users to launche apps that have been added to their organization.

• Administrators can use the new "Manage Apps" section to install, uninstall and configure first or third-party apps and also create custom apps within their organizations.

• Changes for previous Cuse users:

  • Sidebar apps and OAuth clients have been merged into apps

  • Apps can provide one or more views that can be accessed using OAuth

  • Views can be configured as "App Link" which will then show up in the "All Apps" section or as "Database Extension" which will then be accessible through each database's settings.

Classic Forms / Edelog Classic

• Edelog Classic has been removed from a dedicated section in the sidebar and moved into four custom apps, that can be accessed using the new "All Apps" section:

  • Classic Forms

  • Classic Documents

  • Activities

  • Jobs

• Classic Documents and Activities are now marked as legacy features and are intended to be removed with the next major version of Edelog. Both Classic Documents as well as Activities will be migrated properly.

Other new Features

• New database extension "References": You can attach this extension as view to a database to render a table with specific fields of all data records associated to a given data record.

• Database settings "Create and Edit" have been split up:

  • The new page "Views" contains all information about how data records are rendered

  • Email settings have been relocated to the "Advanced" page

• Table view now renders the first column as link to the data column if the first column is a text column. This is done to be more consistent with other data tables across the system.

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a problem that causes calendar tooltips to have a transparent background which resulted in a non-readable text.

• Fixes a problem that causes the "Show More" button within the calendar view to align incorrectly.

• Fixes a problem that causes a linked record's title to be rendered as JSON value in the "Network" view if the linked record's title field is set to be a link or users/groups field.

• Fixes a problem that causes the user to be redirected to the wrong data field after a new data field has been created.

• Fixes a problem that causes a 404 error page to be displayed when the user created a new data field after deleting an existing data field.

• Fixes a problem that causes timeline and calendar view not to render data records if the start date was before the currently selected date range and/or the end date was after the currently selected date range.

• Fixes a problen that causes the logout button to not be visible if the user's full name or the organization's name is too long.

Notices

• The indicator whether or not a data field is visible within any view is temporary unavailable.

Developer Notices

• Apps cannot create technical users and/or app-specific databases. The corresponding APIs will be released with the next minor update of Edelog.

• The ability to create apps usinge OAuth Client Credentials Grant or Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant is temporary unavailable.

• The following APIv1 routes have been removed: /authentication/logout, /authentication/prolong