Newsletter-38: Session Data in Text Based Components, API Response in Custom JSON Key & User Reference Fields in API

Jan 27, 2023

Hi There!👋

We are here this week with fascinating updates for you. 😀😀

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 roadblocks and upgrade your app in exciting new ways.

Try them today and let your app stand out.

Till we bring the next update, stay inspired and have fun building your app! 😀😀

📰 What's New?

New features, Latest developments & Updates!

🔠 Display Browser Session Data in Text Based Components

What's this Feature All About?

This feature lets you display the browser session data in Text, Heading and Paragraph Components on the web page UI.

Benefits:

It allows you to display the data that is stored in the browser session on the text based components like Header, Paragraph and Text.
Information can be picked at once from the browser session in ready-to-print format.
It offers an enhanced UI experience for the user.

Try It Out →

🔖 Save External API Response in User Defined JSON Key

What's this Feature All About?

This feature allows you to store the External API Response in the User Defined JSON key in the browser session. It helps in mitigating the key conflicts if the two separate External API responses have similar key-value pairs.

Benefits:

Storing the API response in User Defined JSON keys helps to clearly identify and differentiate between the response data for each External API. For instance, Suppose you call two Rest APIs named: User API and Product API. Now, you can store the response data for each API in user defined JSON keys as API Response 1 and API Response 2, respectively.
Avoid conflicting overriding values if JSON keys are the same in two or more APIs.

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👨‍💻 Support of Sending User Collection Reference Fields in External APIs

What's this Feature All About?

If the user has references of other collections and you want to send the data of those collections in external apis then you can use this feature. For eg., Say the user has a reference to a bank account and you want to send the account number in the Rest APIs then you can choose the users and send their bank account and numbers.

Benefits:

Access nested fields that are coming from the user collection.
Access all data of logged-in users to be passed through Rest APIs.

Try It Out →

🔼 Avoid loading of actual Data or Content in Snippets while Developing

What's this Feature All About?

There are scenarios when snippets has complex UIs that interfere with the page while building the app in your builder. In this case you can disable the actual UI or design of the snippet. When it is checked then it shows dummy content (snippet name) that makes it easy to design.When application is viewed in the preview/production the snippet gets replaced.

Benefits:

This will help to move things that have multiple HTML layers into snippets as it can be hard to work with themes.

Try It Out →

🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements

Fixed bug to download full data in CSV from Rest API and ignore pagination but include Search query.
Fixed a bug of Data Table not working without pagination.
Fixed a bug to not be able to pick error message from the given path in External APIs.
Fixed a bug for Custom Sentence derived field showing inner characters.
Fixed a bug for External API non-persisted collection - Item details page that was not working in case of data coming in nested JSON.
Fixed a bug image from the reference collection that is rendered in the Data Group but not in the Data Table.
Fixed a bug for Empty File Upload in collection form that was not working while using external API.
You can now persist pagination on page load in case of table coming from External APIs.
You can delete collection field record from database when field is deleted from configuration.
You can change Snippet type dropdown to radio button.

🎦 Video Tutorials

Watch and learn all about the Builder!

Display Browser Session Data in Text, Heading and Paragraph Components

In this video you will understand how to display browser session data in Text, Heading and Paragraph Components on the web page UI.😃😃

Check It Out

Save External API Response in User Defined JSON Key

In this video you will understand how to store the External API (REST API) Response JSON data in user defined/custom JSON key. Use cases could be that a JSON response comes from an API and the same type of data comes in another API and you want to save both the responses in the browser session in the custom key of their own so that they don't end up overwriting each other's data.😃😃

Check It Out

Upcoming Features

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

📝 External API UI/UX Enhancements

Prioritising the feedback of our users we are making some significant UI/UX enhancements to the External API dashboard to help configure it as easily as possible. We will be adding support for JSON Templates in the Request Data Mapping section.

🔆 Global Typography and Styling

This feature will allow you to define custom fonts and Bootstrap Class property values at the Project level once (one-time configuration) that you can apply on the project components.

Blogs & Insights 😀😀

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