EDELOG 6.2
Major New Features
Portal Builder
With Edelog 6.2 we're introducing the new built-in app Portal Builder. Portal Builder enables organizations to selectively share information from Edelog's database system with external companies and users. For this purpose, you can create custom portals with Portal Builder within minutes.
Portal Builder can be added to your organization from the "Manage Apps" page.
The portals can be completely configured and white-labelled using Portal Builder and automatically deployed and hosted by Conclurer or – as an alternative – using our Edelog Portal Server SDK which we're planning to release later this year. The automatically deployed portals are hosted for free for the first 60 days.
Portal Builder incorporates the following features:
You can create multiple portals for distinct business cases using Conclurer's automated deployment or a custom deployment using Edelog Portal Server SDK
Portals can be customized by specifying a white-labelled app name, branding color, logo and navbar logo. If you're deploying the portal manually, deeper adjustments can be done.
Portals currently have the following features, that can be enabled or disabled per portal:
App Launcher: Displays apps that are shared with the portal's users
Profile Settings: Allows the portal users to change their profile information (like first and last name, profile picture)
Portals can contain multiple content blocks that are completely configurable by the user. Portal Builder currently supports creating database or text content blocks. The support for custom apps is planned and will be added in a future update of Portal Builder.
You can configure a portal’s navigation elements and elements displayed in the portal’s App Launcher.
You can selectively share databases per portal with defined access permissions per portal user by specifying access permissions and/or filter statements to define which records can be accessed by which user.
You can register multiple companies per portal. To a company one or more users can be assigned (both portal users and any Edelog user).
You can register dedicated portal users within each portal. Portal users can only access Edelog through the portal.
Improved Database View "Columns"
The new database view columns adds some features to improve your workflow.
You can resize the width per column to see more or less cards per column.
You can collapse individual columns if you're not interested in them.
Improved Database View "Hierarchy"
The new database view hierarchy is visually improved to help you navigate through complex data structures.
Hierarchical objects are now visually displayed in a tree structure
You can expand and collapse any part of the hierarchy tree.
Filters are only applied to the root level of the hierarchy tree to prevent unintended side effects when filtering for data records.
New Features and Non-Breaking Changes
Improved Database Index Page
The currently selected database view is now shared within the browsers address. This allows you to share a specific view with another user by URL.
The previous database view settings dialog has been replaced by a new clean and simplified dialog.
The previous database filter dialog has been replaced by a new clean and simplified dialog. The new filter dialog supports both logical "and" and logical "or" statements.
The database view "tiles" has been improved in a minor way.
The database views "calendar" and "timeline" now allow to specify a label field to be used to specify a record's color. With this you can identify different records of the same database based on category.
The database views "calendar" and "timeline" now correctly apply the current user's locale settings (e. g. in regards of date and time format settings).
The database view "timeline" has been improved to be more space efficient.
Inline Help
The "Help" button on the bottom left will now display a help page that will display help topics matching the currently open page.
From within the help page the user can also search for any help topic
The help topics will be curated and translated over time
Other Changes
The data record view "Meta Information" now displays a QR code which can be scanned using our current Edelog app for iOS and Android as well as the upcoming Edelog Data Explorer app for iOS and Android
The data record view "Meta Information" now displays the database record's email address for quickly adding contents via email.
Many legacy dialogs have been replaced with a new modern dialog style.
Fields of type integer can now be configured to automatically increase for every new record.
Bug Fixes
Fixes an issue that causes apps or databases that have been marked as favorite to show up multiple times in the sidebar.
Fixes an issue that causes search to be unresponsive and slow.
Fixes an issue that prevents sidebar from staying in collapsed state after reloading.
Developer Notices
Improved the handling of database extensions that are written as native Edelog apps.
Added support for complex filter statements. Currently, support for complex filter statements is added as addition to the simple filter statement API. We're deprecating the simple filter statement API with Edelog 7 and having breaking changes with the simple filter statement API with Edelog 8.
Added support for defining "IS NULL" or "IS NOT NULL" statement using Edelog's simple filter statement API.
You can now create technical users via the
/api/v4/technical_usersAPI.Creating restricted users, technical users and groups via third-party apps is now supported.
OAuth client credentials grant is now supported.
Profile pictures can now be accessed without authentication.
Added an API to access memberships of a user or a group.
Major parts of Edelog have been componentized which will be released with a full documentation in the future:
@conclurer/edelog-http-service@conclurer/edelog-api-interfaces@conclurer/edelog-core-services@conclurer/edel-ui
The following changes have been done to Edel UI:
New card component
New container toolbar logo component
Container toolbar can now be rendered using the accent color as background
Grid auto layout can now have a dynamic targeted element width