2023.12 (December 2023)
2023.12 Release Highlights
After a busy month in November, the December 2023 release of the Fuuz platform is heavy in quality of life, stability, and internal engineering process changes, but there are still a few significant features worthy of a highlight. Read on to learn more!
Application Designer Beta
We’re wrapping up the year by releasing into beta a tool we’ve been working on for several months: a unified Fuuz application designer!
The Fuuz platform has a fantastic set of tools for building complex applications: a screen designer for creating user interfaces, a flow designer for business logic and integrations, a schema designer for data modeling, a document designer for printed labels and reports, and more. In their current implementation, however, these tools are accessed and used separately, which means the process of designing a new application from scratch isn’t always clear. That means we have room to improve the platform to fully deliver on the promise of no-code application development!
That problem, along with several others, is what our application designer aims to address. This designer will bring the entire application development process - including all the designers listed above and more - into a single interface. Users will be able to view links between parts of an application, drag and drop between designers, and package and download their completed application, all from one spot!
The initial beta release of this tool doesn’t include all those features yet, but it lays the groundwork by pulling the three most heavily used designers - screens, schema, and flows - into one UI, with a navigator panel allowing users to quickly locate and open any part of the app. We’ll continue adding the features mentioned above to this tool over the coming months, targeting an official release at the end of Q1 2024. In the meantime, please try out the new tool and let us know your thoughts!
Icon Picker Element
The 2023.12 release also includes a small but significant quality of life feature for users of the screen designer: an integrated icon picker! This new input type is activated by clicking the displayed icon in an icon field (for example, on a button or icon element). The dialog that pops up allows you to search for icons by name or keyword, as well as to select and quickly preview colors, variants, and sizes.
Now you can easily find and use the full range of icons available in Fuuz. Don’t have too much fun!
Full Release Notes: 2023.12.0
Data Team
Enterprise Management
Added license field to nightly enterprise sync
Core APIs
Improved update mutation behavior to correct inconsistencies in data returned or logged to data changes
Data Change Capture
Updated object diff library to significantly improve data change diff performance with large data models
DevOps Team
Updated to latest version of monitoring and metric collection packages
Updated base Node image to v20.10.0
Integration Team
Connectors
Improved error handling for network errors without HTTP status codes
Device Gateway
Updated device gateway build to use Node.js Single Executable Applications (SEA) system
Orchestration Team
Scheduler Service
Updated service to gracefully handle tenants with overlapping names
Package Management
Added backwards compatibility with packages built before the addition of saved transform versions and deployments
Removed deprecated Package Builder screens from search bar
User Interface Team
Framework
Added a toggle for theme mode to the avatar menu to quickly switch between light and dark theme
Added Custom Views section to the user profile screen to list all custom table views
Application Designer
Implemented beta version of application designer
Screen Designer
Added breakpoint snapping to element resizing
Corrected an issue causing the field selection tree to miss some fields with large data models
Added several customization options to Tab Bar component, including icon variant, active color, and background color
Added file menu option to edit screen header details (name, description, and active)
Components
Added a new Icon Picker component to support searching for and previewing icons
Added a divider above actions in dialogs
Added smart input support for JSON Schema Builder input component
Reimplemented JSON input to improve performance and schema validation reliability
Updated time inputs to never display a time zone
Corrected an issue causing select inputs in dialog mode to open twice
Calendars
Updated calendar events to display resource colors correctly
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