v0.8.11 Release Notes

Release Date: August 23, 2024

🚀 New Features & Template Enhancements

• Default Space Selection: When installing a template, the first space is now selected by default.
• Markdown Editor: Added markdown editor support for folders and templates.
• Event Exchange Page: New page for oncely event exchanges.
• Form Submission: Forms now support anonymous submissions.
• Variable Editor: The variable editor is now available for some automation actions.

🔧 Fixes

• Automation Triggers and Actions: Fixed the issue where initial Triggers and Actions were missing in the Automation creation interface.
• Email Service: Improved email sending service configuration, enhancing the arrival rate of Bika verification codes.
• Record Creation: Fixed an issue preventing the creation of request records.
• Bgrid Rendering: Resolved the bgrid rerendering problem.
• Record Navigation: Addressed issues with switching between records.
• User Display: Fixed display issues with creator field and member field.
• Third-Party Integrations: Fixed issues where third-party integration links were not responding on the page outside workspace.
• Form Creation from Folder: Fixed an issue preventing forms created from folders with the linking to views.
• Form Nodes: Fixed an issue preventing access to form nodes.
• New User Guide: Fixed missing survey steps in the new user registration guide.
• Automation Start Time: Resolved a mismatch between the start time displayed in automation instance and the tempalte.
• Twitter Integration: Fixed an issue where the Twitter token would expire after two hours, requiring manual authorization.
• Template App Navigation: Fixed an issue where clicking the "+" icon in an installed template would redirect to the first installed template.
• Database Description: Added missing database descriptions.
• Field Name Reset: Fixed an issue where field names were reset when switching fields.
• Attachments in Records: Fixed an issue preventing attachments from being uploaded and displayed in record detail modal.
• Automation Variables: Variables in automation now use API data directly.
• Variable Input: variable selector support getting variables from delays and scheduler actions.
• Mirrored Rendering: Fixed an issue with repeated image rendering.
• Variable Input with JSON: Adapted variable input for JSON string scenarios.
• Send Message To WeCom: supports inserting variables to actionCard JSON object.
• AI Template Fields: Resolved issues where AI request form fields did not automatically translate based on the set language (e.g., showing Chinese when the language is set to Chinese).
• Bidirectional Fields: Fixed a crash after creating bidirectional fields in the resource editor.
• Member Cell Selection: Resolved page crashes after selecting corresponding members in member cells.
• AI Template Data Persistence: Fixed an issue where previous data remained after submitting AI request forms.
• Date Auto-fill: Fixed an issue where date fields set to auto-fill were not showing values in new record details.
• Required Fields: Added tips when required fields are left empty during record creation.
• Attachment Field: Resolved page crashes when adding records containing an attachment field.
• Date Range Column: Added support for the date range column.

🚧 Refactors

• Template Detail Page: Refactored template detail page components for better reliability.
• Database Grid: Decoupled database grid for improved maintainability.
• Node Resource Layout: Refactored node resource layout permissions.
• Formula Refactor: Refactored formulas for better maintainability.
• Form and Field Refactor: Refactored forms and fields for enhanced reliability.

✨ UI/UX Improvements

• Pivot Table Component: Introduced a new pivot table component.
• Text Widget Update: Updated the text widget for a better user experience.
• Variable Editor Styling: Improved the styling of variable tags in the variable editor.
• Mission Creation Design: Updated the Create Mission design to make Reminder and After Action sections more intuitive.
• Mission & Assignment Types: Added descriptions for "Mission Type" and "Assignment Type."

🎁 Chores

• Multilingual Configurations: Supplemented multilingual configurations for the field edit menu.
• Field Label Update: Updated field labels to indicate features "Coming Soon".

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