Release 35

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Get ready for a visually refreshed experience! Release 35 introduces a significant update to the user interface, delivering a modern and streamlined look and feel throughout the platform. While the core functionality remains consistent, you’ll immediately notice changes designed to enhance usability and provide a more contemporary experience.

These visual updates impact key areas such as the Login Page, where the positioning of elements like the logo, background image, and release information has been refined, along with a new appearance for input fields and error messages. The Landing Page now features redesigned ItemType tiles, a revised header, search field, and button styling, as well as a refreshed navigation sidebar and table of contents. On the Search Page, you’ll find an enhanced search toolbar with button labels and new icons. The data grid also boasts a cleaner look with updated header row colors, subtle styling for the search row, and refined colors for data row interactions. Navigating to Item Pages (like CAD or Part items) reveals a modernized item toolbar, relationship toolbars, tree grid view toolbars, and item sidebars. Finally, you’ll see a contemporary style applied to accordions, tabs, form fields, and common modal dialog elements, contributing to a more cohesive and intuitive user experience.

This UI refresh isn’t just about looks; it’s about making your daily tasks more enjoyable and efficient, allowing you to focus on what truly matters – your data.

Unleash the power of visual data insights with our new conditional formatting tool for grids! This release introduces a no-code interface that empowers administrators to define rules for dynamically formatting data within tabular grids. Now, you can easily color-code critical information based on specific conditions. Highlight life cycle state values, flag numerical data exceeding defined thresholds, or apply sophisticated styling based on complex combinations of properties – all without writing a single line of code.

These formatting “Rules,” which combine your specified conditions with the desired color behaviors, offer remarkable flexibility and reusability. Imagine defining a rule to highlight overdue tasks in red and then applying that same rule across multiple ItemType grids. Furthermore, these Rules are designed for broad applicability, seamlessly integrating with Responsive Form configurations as well. To get you started, we’ve included several out-of-the-box sample Rules showcasing the diverse ways this feature can be leveraged.

While this initial release focuses on powerful formatting capabilities, the underlying architecture is designed for future expansion. You’ll notice an option to show or hide data based on conditions within the configuration tool; however, please note that this functionality is not yet active and will be enabled in a future update. For now, dive into the world of visual data cues and experience a new level of clarity within your grids!

Personalize your platform experience with the new UI color configuration feature! This release introduces the ability for administrators to tailor the visual appearance of key UI elements to align with your organization’s branding or preferences. Within the “global” Presentation Configuration, you’ll now find options to modify three color variables: Theme Primary, Theme Secondary, and Theme Brand.

The Theme Primary color allows you to define the hue for primary interactive elements, including the main action buttons like “Search” and “Edit”, the visual indicator for selected rows in grids, the labels of relationship tabs, and even the loading spinner. Theme Secondary provides control over the color of negative or cautionary actions, such as the “Discard” button on item view toolbars and the “Cancel” button within various modal dialogs. Finally, the Theme Brand color lets you customize the navigation sidebar, providing a distinct identity to your workspace, and subtly tints the overall client background for a cohesive look.

Applying your custom color scheme is simple. Just enter your desired color values and save. To see your new theme in action, simply log out and log back into the platform. Should you ever wish to revert to the original color settings, you can easily do so by applying the following default values: Theme Primary = #0F66CB, Theme Secondary = #303444, and Theme Brand = #1E212B. Embrace a more personalized and branded platform environment with this exciting new customization capability!

Say goodbye to UI ambiguity! This release introduces helpful placeholders to provide clear feedback in scenarios where content is not yet displayed. Previously, encountering a blank screen could leave you wondering about the system’s status. Now, we’ve implemented intuitive messages and graphics to guide you and clarify why content might be absent.

For example, when no search results are found, you’ll now see a clear indicator informing you of this, eliminating any uncertainty about loading or errors. Similarly, on a search page where no search has been initiated, a helpful message will prompt you to enter your criteria and begin searching. When activating splitscreen view, the empty side will now display a message guiding you to open a tab to view content side-by-side.

We’ve also addressed cases where content availability depends on configuration or user actions. If no form is defined for your user context, a “locked” icon along with an informative message will now appear. For tree grid views where no data exists or the view is misconfigured, a specific indicator will explain the situation. Finally, if you haven’t yet added any favorites for a particular ItemType, the favorites panel will now display a friendly message indicating this. These enhancements ensure a more intuitive and informative user experience, providing clarity at every step.

Experience a streamlined and intuitive promotion process with the redesigned Promote dialog! We’ve completely reimagined this key interaction to enhance usability and clarity. The selection of available lifecycle states has transitioned from a traditional grid to a more visually appealing and easily navigable series of selectable “chips.” This new format allows for quicker identification of target states.

In addition, we’ve relocated the confirmation buttons to the bottom right of the dialog, aligning them with standard dialog conventions for a more familiar interaction. The list of available states is now intelligently sorted alphabetically by their labels, making it easier to find the desired next state. Furthermore, each state now prominently displays the unique icon configured within the lifecycle definition, providing an additional visual cue for quick recognition. This update ensures a more efficient and user-friendly experience when advancing items through their lifecycle.

Boost your productivity when managing relationships with type-ahead for adding related items! We’ve improved the way you connect existing items to relationship tables, significantly streamlining the process and saving you valuable time.

Say goodbye to navigating through modal search dialogs for items you already know. The traditional “Add {Item}" button has been replaced with an intelligent input field featuring a dynamic type-ahead suggestion list. Simply begin typing the name of the item you wish to relate to, and a dropdown of matching records will appear in real-time. Press Enter or click on the desired item from the list, and it’s instantly added to the relationship table.

For those situations requiring more advanced search capabilities, the new input field conveniently includes a familiar search button on the right. Clicking this button will open the traditional search dialog, providing the same powerful filtering and selection options you’re accustomed to. This hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds: lightning-fast addition for known items and robust search functionality when needed. This enhancement will noticeably accelerate your daily tasks, especially when working with numerous related items.