Latest Release Note
November, 2023
Aurachain v3.20
Here’s What’s New in Aurachain v3.20
In this latest release, we’re excited to introduce game-changing features designed to elevate your experience with Aurachain. At the heart of these enhancements is our innovative AI Assistant, a new feature poised to revolutionize how you create applications.
Furthermore, our commitment to delivering excellence is evident in the enhanced Help Center Panel, which offers comprehensive guidance at your fingertips. The upgraded diagram components bring a new level of clarity to your workflows, while the improved design for User Interfaces will give your users an even more seamless and intuitive experience.
Adding another layer of sophistication, we’ve introduced versioning for documents, empowering you with better control and organization. These updates and some other improvements described below collectively enhance our capabilities, providing you with a refined, efficient, and flexible environment for app creation and management. Get ready to experience a new era of ease and empowerment with Aurachain.
AI Assistant
The AI Assistant, utilizing ChatGPT trained on the Aurachain Documentation enables the conversion of written instructions into functional scripts. It’s embedded into our script editor and offers a seamless UX when users are building their interfaces. This tool is designed to assist with writing new scripts and refining existing ones, ensuring the code is correct.
Benefits
Enhanced Speed for User Interface Builder.
Enhanced learning tools for mastery of Aurachain’s custom code features.
Streamlined error checking for more dependable code creation.
Use Cases
Enhanced guidance for custom functions: The platform now recommends the most suitable among the nearly 50 custom JavaScript methods for specific functionalities.
Intuitive function authoring: Users can now easily create functions that integrate with other UI elements, no deep coding knowledge required.
Enhanced debugging tools: The tool has been updated to aid in pinpointing and correcting issues in existing code.
Enhanced Help-Center Panel
Navigating our platform just became easier with the latest enhancement to our Help-Center Panel. Designed with your convenience in mind, the panel now features direct links to both the Help Center and the Aurachain Academy, alongside a curated selection of articles. These recommendations are smartly tailored to the specific module or section you’re working in, ensuring the help you need is always just one click away.
Benefits:
Enhanced accessibility to Aurachain learning resources.
Facilitates quick access to relevant and related information for users.
Versioning – Document Templates
Seamless Template Management:
Our Document Template builder now boasts a comprehensive version history, capturing every save you make. Whether you’re refining a template or revamping it entirely, each iteration is recorded for easy preview and retrieval. Need to note what changed? Add a note to each save for a clear revision history.
Historical Insight Across Your Templates:
The Document Templates feature doesn’t just track your saves; it maintains a detailed log of every action, from creation and modification to deletion and renaming of any Document Template. Should you need to backtrack, rest assured that even deleted templates can be resurrected with a click.
Benefits
Ensure transparency and traceability in the Document Template building process.
Have the capability to undo modifications to Document Templates, whether they are accidental or intentional.
Use cases
Quickly restore Document Templates after disruptive changes.
Keep up with the latest updates in Document Templates.
Easily identify who made changes to any Document Template.
Compare Document Template versions effortlessly.
Refreshed UI Components
The latest update introduces a suite of graphical enhancements along with functional improvements, particularly to the date-time component for better usability. All components have been refined for a consistent appearance.
Benefits
Upgraded to a more modern and clean task interface design.
Improved readability across task forms, aiding in user workflow.
Design consistency achieved with Aurachain’s signature style.
Note: Due to User Interface style changes, you may notice some alignment discrepancies in your existing interfaces. While we’ve taken every precaution to minimize disruptions, individual setups may require adjustments
PDF & Image Preview Component
The “Preview” component is a pop-up feature activated when a user interacts with the “Upload” button. It facilitates the inspection of PDF files and images by enabling browsing, zooming, and full-screen viewing without the need for downloading.
Benefits
Seamlessly access PDF contents from the task interface without the need for downloads.
Controlled PDF viewing allows content sharing while restricting file downloads.
Submission Improvements
The task submission experience is now more intuitive, allowing for granular configuration. Changes can include the order of task outcomes, visibility of the comments section, and presetting outcomes to align with your process needs.
Benefits
Enhanced organization of process diagrams for better operational clarity.
Cleaner diagrams for improved ease of understanding and use.
Use cases
Streamlined task submission is achieved for instances with only one potential outcome.
Task outcomes are structured to present a clear sequence of business-driven options during submission.
Visibility of the comments section during task submission is now conditional, based on specific configuration settings.
Improved Diagram Usability
The diagramming functionality has been upgraded with three essential enhancements to enrich diagram interaction and clarity. Users are now equipped with the capability to modify the origin and destination ports, the flexibility to reroute connectors through intuitive drag-and-drop actions, and a clear depiction of overlapping connectors to ensure precise diagram interpretation.
Benefits
Improved management and organization of process diagrams.
Cleaner, more intelligible diagrams with advanced visualization of connector pathways.
Permissions improvements
Individual permissions can now be set for each resource panel within a task interface, offering refined control over access and visibility.
Benefits
Enhanced security with granular permission settings.
Allows specific access control for process information and resource panels, ensuring tailored data visibility.
Use cases
Access to the “Documents” area is now exclusively available to users with the necessary clearance to view process instance documents, ensuring sensitive information remains confidential.
Dynamic table column & row reordering
With the introduction of our new functionality, document editors are now equipped to interchange the positions of columns or rows in a table with just a single button click. This feature extends to both static and dynamic tables which are based on data-model variables, enhancing flexibility and efficiency in data management.
Benefits
Table data is easily organized with a simple click.
Data remains intact during column and row repositioning.
Use cases
Sort rows by number or letter to order your data neatly.
Move columns and rows to arrange your data better for looking at and analyzing it.
Group similar data by moving columns and rows closer to each other.
Table Column & Row Transposing
With a simple click, static tables gain the ability to transpose effortlessly, allowing rows to become columns and vice versa.
Benefits
Table data is easily organized with a simple click.
Optimized page layout by displaying table data in a vertical format for improved space utilization.
Use cases
Simplifying document template formatting processes for efficient document generation.
Streamlining data cleaning by converting wide-format data into a more manageable long format.
Enhancing the presentation of financial statements, typically stored in a wide format.
API and Security Logs
Administrators now have the capability to download comprehensive audits of all API calls made by the application and all security events. These audits are conveniently exported as CSV files for a period of 30 days.
Benefits
Simplified access to API and security logs.
Empowerment to export and retain thorough audit records of API calls and security events.
No need for DevOps involvement.
Ensured data integrity with tamper-proof records.
Use cases
Identify API calls to paid services that lead to excessive costs
Examine malicious API calls.
Investigate cyber-attacks.
Identify compromised user accounts (incl admins).
Platform Improvements
- Implement the search functionality in the following areas:
- Process Live View
- Statistics
- Email Templates page
- System API page
- “Start a process” side panel
- Redirect all invalid tenant names to “Page not found“ instead of being redirected to the default tenant .
- A new scripting event has been added for the “Generate Document” UI Builder component: onClick. As the name suggests, it allows custom JavaScript code to be automatically triggered when the button is clicked.
- For scripts on “Generate document” and “initiate process” buttons now have the ability to wait for the script to finish before the document is generated.
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