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Changelog

This page lists the major public-facing updates to Bobuild. It does not mention the huge amount of work we do continously to improve the experience and make the infrastructure more reliable.

If you have any suggestion or request just reach out to us! We're all ears.

December 2024​

  • Login
  • Form
    • Raise number of items listed in comboboxes to 200
    • Allow autologin also for update forms
  • Grid
    • Ability to disable individual tasks in grids using display rules
    • Improved performance of the fulltext search
    • Links from grid and detail widgets can now target any other page
  • Auto fields and tasks
    • Add Markdown dotted list as possible separators for auto fields that concatenate linked records
    • Allow to reference other objects in task formulas
  • API:
    • Allow user filtering in List API endpoints
    • API can now be called from JavaScript in a browser thanks to more open CORS settings
    • Support file upload via API
    • Added setting to limit the items returned by a List API endpoint
    • Change: date/time is now always returned in ISO8601 format in CSV and API output, regardless of the configured display format
    • Support insertion of multiple records using a single API call

November 2024​

  • Auto fields and tasks
    • More flexible date/time conversions
    • Show a preview of the number of records an object task will run on
    • Added ability to run a task action only for the last processed record
    • Added ability to schedule another asynchronous task from a task
  • E-mail
    • Support e-mail submission through Microsoft Office365/Graph
  • Login
    • Support login with the Italian Electronic Identity Card (CIE)
    • Allow to configure the subject and message of magic link messages
  • Grid
    • Add option to disable table reordering based on display rule
    • Allow user sorting in grids

October 2024​

  • Grid
    • Added ability to order rows using drag & drop and store the order in a field
    • Added option for selecting all records by default (for tasks)
  • Importer
    • Added follow-up page configuration for importer widgets
  • Auto fields and tasks
    • Added ROUND(), MIN_TO_HOURMIN() functions
  • Document generation
    • Added PDF file generation

September 2024​

  • Document generation
    • Added Docx file generation
  • Menu
    • Improved the look & feel of the cards menu thanks to icons and colors
  • Detail
    • Added option to render detail widgets with a vertical layout

August 2024​

  • New automated helper to import data from a third-party MSSQL database

June 2024​

  • Tasks
    • Added ability to delete other records from a task
  • Auto fields
    • Add ability to count the distinct values of connected records
  • Builder
    • Ability to search for a page (useful in very large apps)
  • Pivot tables
    • Added configuration of column labels
    • Allow grouping pivot tables also by unique fields
  • Login
    • Added Login with SPID

May 2024​

  • Login
    • Added Login with Microsoft/Office365
  • Auto fields and tasks
    • Added MIN(), MAX() functions
    • Allow setting a multichoice field to the value of a single text field
  • Added an option to show a "Print" button in pages
  • Menu
    • Added an option to open a menu item a new window
    • Added an option to hide a menu item but leave it accessible with an URL
    • Added configurable descriptions to cards menu
    • Added accordion menu

April 2024​

  • Detail
    • Added a "Set color" display action also for detail widgets
  • Form
    • Added ability to set a max length for text fields
    • Added ability to set an entire for to read-only using a display rule
  • Grid
    • Automatically add extra columns to grid widgets for fields used in user filters (except when it would be redundant)
  • Builder
    • Added command to duplicate a field (and its data)

November 2023​

  • Auto fields and tasks
    • Added ability to set fields to a formula from a task
    • Added LEFT(), RIGHT() functions
    • More powerful function parsing, now supporting multiple fields in a single function call

### October 2023

  • API
    • Added ability to attach tasks to API endpoints

April 2023​

  • Login
    • Added magic link authentication

February 2023​

  • Pivot tables
    • Added abilityto link rows of pivot tables

January 2023​

  • Objects
    • Allow to configure an action to run on connected objects when a record is deleted
  • Auto fields and tasks
    • Added TO_SECONDS(), ADD_YEARS() functions
  • Form
    • More flexible layout with multiple fields on one row

January 2021​

  • Started updating a changelog
  • E-mail
    • Ability to see a rendered preview of e-mail body