We released 3.0.1 earlier this week, with the usual bugs fixes, and a few new features introduced, mostly around improving the form/actions experience:
Linked Drop Down
You can now link the multiple-values drop downs so that selection in one menu filters the other(s). The filtering supports parameters from project configurations (e.g. projectId) and values from other fields in the row(s) being edited or the form. This allows you to configure linked fields like category and subcategory, and since you can link any number of menus together, you can represent all hierarchical data in general.
While this is supported for all data sources, we have implemented it on the SQL source to start with, looking for your input on how you’d want this configured with other sources type like Excel.
Actions Configuration
We added many new settings for customising the look and feel of your Actions, available via the Action configuration dialogue under Display Options, and for each individual field from the extra menu ‘…‘ in the fields grid.
- Actions can be standalone in the tool bar or in their own menus
- Actions fields can be grouped under tabs to create shorter forms with more of a flow feeling. If you miss out a mandatory field in one of the tab, you’ll be taken there automatically when validating the action to fill in the missing input
- Multiple-values fields support a new type of editing control, the Toggle. It displays the values side by side to choose from just with one click, and supports the same colour filtering as the data grid. Head to your Layout configuration dialogue to enable the Toggle control instead of the drop down. This is not limited to Actions, and is also supported for form edits.
- You can customize actions buttons, hiding the repeat/next if not relevant, and change the text of the validation button from the default ‘Create/Delete/Run’.
- Finally, you can also hide fields, particularly useful for Locked fields that are used for internal purposes (e.g. database primary keys) where you already have Reference fields showing human-readable names.
We’ve fixed a few minor bugs too and have addressed quite a few of your requests so if your feature is not listed here, you can still head down to our ‘what’s new page‘ to see all the changes we’ve made. One in particular you may appreciate, is BIMWatcher integration now supporting special characters in column names.
Coming Next
We have big plans to improve data visualisation in the grid with progress bar and other display tricks coming soon and a data source to connect to a publish BIMWatcher site.
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