v0.8.12 Release Notes

Release Date: August 30, 2024

🚀 New Features & Template Enhancements

• Space Setting: Space homepage announcement now support markdown and preview in the space setting page with multi-language configuration.
• Automation: Triggers for manual execution are now available, providing flexibility for tasks that don't require automatic server execution.
• AI Integration: Added "OpenAI - Generate Text" Automation Action for text generation using AI.
• OpenAI Integration: Enhanced functionality to save Organization ID in the Integration settings.
• Trigger & Action Test: All automation triggers and actions now support a "Test" button to fetch step data structures for downstream actions.
• New Field Type: "Formula" field type is now available.
• Group Management: Group management module now supports group deletion.
• Template Center Search: Upgraded search functionality with similarity matching for easier template discovery.
• Resource Node Context Menu: Enhanced with more functional options.
• Variable Editor: Added help text at the bottom.

✨ UI/UX Improvements

• Field Type Description: Added more friendly descriptions in the dropdown when adding or editing fields in a database.
• Create Mission Action: Optimized configuration interface to support multi-language prompts.
• Authorization Email Domain: Improved text for authorization email domain titles and button labels.
• Message Input Guide: Added guidelines for using markdown and inserting variables in message content text boxes for Twitter, Slack, Telegram, and WeCom Action.
• Select Integration Placeholder: Added placeholder text for selecting existing integrations.
• AI Template Generation UI: Enhanced the UI for AI template generation.
• Resource Panel: Improved width adjustment (560px - 800px) for the right-side resource editing area.
• Modal Submission Loading: Added loading effect when submitting modals.
• Timezone Sorting: In the "Scheduler Trigger" configuration, "timezone" option list will sorts by continent and city.
• Report Sender Optimization: The "Send Report" action now supports inserting variables.
• Intelligent Formula Field: Syntax highlighting in formula expressions.
• Automation Filters & Actions: Optimized the sequence and added help text for the trigger and action configuration interface.
• Admin Role Permissions: Expanded the set of permissions for admin roles.
• Space Usage Stats: Improved display and tracking of usage statistics.
• Error Prompts: Enhanced error prompts for various operations.
• Automation Action Requirements: Added friendly prompts when missing required fields.
• Form Descriptions: Added default descriptions when creating new databases.
• File Descriptions: Long file descriptions now auto-truncate with "…".
• Hover Text: Changed tooltip text color to black.
• Grid Sorting: Grid view now supports sorting, enhancing data management flexibility.
• Template Center: Tweaked search to reduce page refresh frequency.
• Field Descriptions: Provided better explanations when adding fields in databases.

🐞 Fixes

• Field Filter Control: Fixed an issue where filter conditions were not displaying.
• Email Action Matching: Resolved issues with email data matching for the "Send Email" action in automation.
• Multilingual Error: Fixed misrepresentations in the field panel's multilingual text.
• AI Conversations: Addressed style issues and voice problems in multi-round AI conversations.
• Date Cleanup: Corrected issue where modifying record dates would clear other data.
• Record View: Fixed the problem of not being able to select views in the record search.
• Variable Insertion: Resolved issues with inserting variables in the "Find Record" action.
• More Members Button: Fixed an unresponsive "See More" button in the member selector.
• Permission Table crash: Fixed the crash issue when adding a "date" type field.
• Trigger/Action Refresh: Resolved the need to refresh the page to display new triggers or actions.
• Resource Load Times: Improved resource node loading times.
• Empty Filter Conditions: Fixed disappearing filter conditions in view filter control for currency fields.
• Invalid Trigger/Action Deletion: Fixed the issue of invalid trigger or action deletions in the automation resource editor.
• Anonymous Submission: Corrected unauthorized errors preventing anonymous attachment uploads.
• Option Display in Multi-select: Ensured all selected options display in the multi-select configuration page.
• Record IDs: Records now display their first column name instead of just the ID in the record details.
• Field Default Values: Fixed default value display issues in single-select/multi-select fields.
• Record Linking: Resolved problems with linking records that previously required re-open to display.
• Filter Panel Styling: Fixed the styling issue, enhancing UI consistency and aesthetics.
• Cache Errors: Improved system reliability by fixing crashes and currency label display issues.
• Task Creation: Added "Coming Soon" markers to unprovided task types within executors.

🛠️ Refactors

• AI Wizard: Refactored AI Wizard functionality to resolve various bugs (#5815).
• Website Redirection: Optimized website redirection mechanisms.
• Space Setting Info: Refactored for better maintainability.
• Dashboard and Widget Context: Improved dashboard, widget context, and related settings for better maintainability.

🎁 Miscellaneous

• Twitter, Slack, Telegram, WeCom: Added markdown formatting and insert variable guidelines for message content fields.
• Integration Placeholders: Added placeholder text to the selector for existing integrations.
• Execution Configs: Optimized configuration interface for "Create Record" executor.
• Help Center: Added illustrative guides for "Importing Data".
• Excel Export: Supported Excel export for data backup.
• Bika File Resources: Supported Bika File Resources export for easier app backup.
• Template Fixes: Corrected various template issues including mandatory field input and automatic enumeration fields.

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