Release 2023-Q3
The most important changes made in the third quarter of 2023 are described below.
Data Hub
In the current release in archITekt Studio, the existing database panel, has been expanded to the functionality of Data Hub, a central place where data sources and services with which the application integrates such as:
- databases,
- SOAP services,
- REST services.
For SOAP and REST services, Data Hub verifies the availability of a WSDL / OpenAPI contract description. If it finds one, then it automatically adds the interface configuration for the services provided.
UX changes
- Ability to mass edit advanced properties.
- Adding to the workflow manager a column displaying information about the form that is associated with the state on which the workflow is currently stopped.
- Changing the appearance of the record mapping tree: using multiple columns for annotation presentation and grouping visibility options in the menu.
- Adding to the context menu of the Version server of the web application preview operation.
- Adding to the context menu of the Version server of WSDL preview operations for published elements (algorithms, tables, processes, processing packages).
Other changes
Below is a list of selected minor modifications made in this release:
- Algorithms execution startup simplified. Parameter useNewAppDomain was removed from localFileTableProvider and localFileModelProvider configuration sections.
- Workflow manager: added preview form column.
- Navigation options gathers better names:
- Navigate within ControlNavigator was changed into Standard
- Navigate within the panel under list was changed into Preview control
- Navigate within the popup window was changed into Popup
- Open in a new browser tab was changed into New tab
- Redirect within the current page was changed into Redirect
- Switch within the navigation panel was changed into Switch
- Rich TextBox Editor - limitation on the minimum height of the control was removed
- Static application images stored in ~/Images/UserImages web application folder are no longer supported.
- Added new button to Help menu in Studio which redirects to the documentation on the web
- The AI assistant hints GPT model how to treat table names that are reserved SQL names
- Launcher now allows to easily configure Open AI connection type, credentials and which AI model to use.
- Reorganized records tree in Map in Place block in Packages and Form's Initial mappings. Record's icons have been moved to separate columns and toolbar has been revised to manage columns visibilty and filter records, to make whole tree more readable.
Breaking change: change the way the images handling
- All usages of images installed by archITekt are automatically migrated to images stored in version server (in /System/Images folder).
- All custom images must be uploaded to version server and all their usages must manually be replaced.