Newsletter 39: Guest Login & Signup, Error Message Handling, Date/Time Picker & Environment-based Plugin Settings

Feb 10, 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!

👨‍💻 Guest Login and Signup Feature (Anonymous User)

What's this Feature All About?

This feature allows users to create an account without providing their details like email, username or password. You can create an anonymous user, behind-the-scene, so that the guest user can continue without providing their details.

Benefits:

It allows the user to continue as a guest without providing their details.
It allows users quickly and easily access the application in the initial stages of the process.
It provides users enhanced security and privacy, helping to protect sensitive user data. Besides, giving the guest user the full functionality of a signed-up user. For instance, guest users can check-in in an online store without having to create a full account and check-out the same way.

Try It Out →

💬 Error Message Handling for different JSON Keys

What's this Feature All About?

In case of multiple fields the error message for each field validation can come from a separate JSON key.

Benefits:

It helps to configure the key and display all error messages related to it. For instance, if the address is small then its value comes as 'address.min' and if the address is big its value comes as 'address.max'. This feature lets you give a high level key to display all error messages.

Try It Out →

📅 Date/Time Picker in Data Search Form

What's this Feature All About?

When any data is created with a date and time field and if you want to search the items using the data search form on the basis of their date and time both, then this feature allows you to do that. You can fetch the data between two different dates and times such as 12-03-2000 05:30 AM to 15-03-2000 08:30 PM, etc from a calendar-picker. This can be useful in a data search form when you need to specify a date or time range for their search.

Benefits:

Easily search data/records on the basis of date and time.
Generate precise reports on the basis of date and time.
Apply micro-filtering to generate granular data.

Try It Out →

🔐 Environment-based Settings in Plugins

What's this Feature All About?

Now you can configure your plugins on the basis of the application Environment such as Preview, Staging/Sandbox or Production. While testing you can use the Sandbox settings and use live /production settings for actual users.

Benefits:

Sensitive information such as API keys and passwords can be stored securely in the environment and not in the codebase.
Different environment-specific settings can be defined, such as development, production, and staging, allowing for easier switch between them.
Environment-based settings allow multiple developers to work on the same project without interfering with each other's configurations.
For instance, Stripe plugin can be configured to Sandbox settings while testing/development so that you do not need to use an actual card to run the payment flow. While for end users, they can still view the actual Stripe flow with the actual card.

Try It Out →

🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements

Fixed bug for JSON keys to not auto-populate in case of external API response mapping.
Fixed a bug for the link not working in custom segment.
Fixed a bug to not able to create Data Source from Events.
Fixed a bug for Airtable not being able to store data on refreshing in Preview Environment.
Fixed a bug in case of user ID not being able to propagate to the next step in Signup Event.
Fixed a bug for nomenclature mismatch between Save and Retrieve in session data.
Enhancement UI/UX changes in the External API Request Mapping section.

🎦 Video Tutorials

Watch and learn all about the Builder!

Display All Records via External API Ignoring Pagination

In this video you will understand how to download all records from the Data Table via External APIs and ignore pagination. Let's say, there are 200 records matching the filters but only 10 are displayed on the data table at any point of time, and you want to download all 100 of them in the CSV in a single go. In such cases this video can be of great help. 😃😃

Check It Out

Step-by-Step Tutorial to Create a Project Management - Multi-Tenant SaaS Web App

In this video you will understand how to create a Project Management web app like Jira or Asana where there are many organisations (tenants), team members, projects, tasks etc. and each team member will only see the projects and the tasks that are part of that particular organisation.😃😃

Check It Out

Upcoming Features

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

🖥 AWS KMS Integration for Encryption of Data

This feature lets you securely encrypt data within your applications and control access to the keys needed to decrypt the data.

📱External API Response Support in Data Group

The feature lets you fetch data from external REST APIs and then display the data in the form of cards or groups. The data gets displayed directly from the API without getting stored in the DrapCode database.

Blogs & Insights 😀😀

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