Newsletter 32:Confirmation Pop-up Event, Event To Reset Form Fields, Raw JSON In External API & Timeout Support

Nov 21, 2022

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We are back in your inbox with some fascinating updates this week. 😀😀

The updates lined up for you are New Features - to spice up your app, Upcoming Features - to take your app to the next level with Video Tutorials and Blog Posts - to help you at every step of the process.

Get over any roadblocks in your app-building journey, upgrade your app and let it stand out.

So, try them out today to build the app you always wanted.

Till we roll out the next update stay inspired and have fun building your app!😀😀

📰What's New?

New features, latest developments & Updates!

📈 Confirmation Pop-up Event

What's this Feature All About?

You can create a confirmation pop-up for an event. This event can be used in a workflow that requires a confirmation message before executing the action.

Benefits:

Can be used wherever a confirmation message is required to display before executing the next Event action. For eg., a confirmation message before user signup, before sending an External API request or before saving collection data.
Avoid unnecessary errors
Prevents accidental clicks

Try It Out →

🖥 Event To Reset Form Fields

What's this Feature All About?

This feature is needed when you want to reset the form. It will erase the existing data and let you refill it as preferred.

Benefits:

Default form reset doesn’t reset the Select Dropdown values but this dedicated Reset Form field action does support resetting to Select Dropdown values.
Can add a step in-between to reset form fields before execution of the next action step (that loads form fields values from DB or browser section) and ensures values are up-to-date.

Try It Out →

🔠 Raw JSON as a Request Body Parameter in External APIs

What's this Feature All About?

Raw JSON as a request body parameter in External APIs and then replace any dynamic value using {{value_key}} using the persisted or non-persisted collection.

Benefits:

This feature allows them to send a custom JSON be it a complex or simple format in a request body.
The JSON can have Static/Constant values which will be sent as is in the request body of an API or, it can have Dynamic values in a format of {{value_key}} that gets replaced based on a provided request mapping before making an API call.

Try It Out →

⏳ Support for Timeout in External APIs

What's this Feature All About?

You can handle the success and failure of external APIs manually. It will give you better control of success and failure of fetching or sending data via external API.

Benefits:

Can either set this timeout limit (in seconds) at the project level or can set it as each External API level.
Helps navigate further to the next step if the API is not working or down for some reason and avoid bad experience.

Try It Out →

🎦Video Tutorials

Watch and learn all about the Builder!

Create and Edit Flow in Modal Popup

From this video tutorial you can learn how to implement the Create and Edit flow for any collection using Modal Popups. There are scenarios where you do not want your users to navigate to other pages to create new items, edit or update the same page but these can be easily performed in DrapCode in a modal popup. 😃😃

Check It Out

Update Collection Field Values without Collection Form

This video will help you learn how to update collection fields without the use of a Collection Form. There are several scenarios where you may want to update the status of a record, set/unset the value of a boolean field or want to set some predefined field value. 😃😃

Check It Out

Upcoming Features

Here are some of the upcoming features that are in pipeline!

📱 Role-Based Snippets

While configuring the external APIs, you can pass the API parameters based on the environment such as preview (staging), build (production), beta (sandbox) and alpha (pre-pod). You can segregate actual and testing data that is meant for the specific user.

📶 Environment Based External API Configuration

You have the option to create a different environment (preview, build, beta and alpha) based JSON Token.

Blogs & Insights 😀😀

Read & learn about no code & low code in depth.

What Problems Does No Code Solve?

How No Code Technology is enabling users to take a visual approach to software development instead of writing lines of code? Read more

Will No Code Development Ever Rule The Tech World?

Want to know how no code development can help solve your business problems and help it grow? Read more

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