v0.8.17 Release Notes

Release Date: September 26, 2024

🚀 New Features and Template Enhancements

• Intelligent Search: Space homepage redesigned, now using a launcher for intelligent search
• Node Search: Launcher now supports node search
• Dashboard Editor: New dashboard editor for modifying dashboard titles and descriptions
• Resource Editor: Support for sorting nodes, views, and field lists in the resource editor
• Excel Import: Support for creating new databases from Excel files and appending record data from Excel
• Cell Operations: Support for copy and paste operations in "Checkbox", "Date", "Two-way Link", and "One-way Link" cells
• Tencent Hunyuan Integration: New "Tencent Hunyuan" integration added to the space integration center
• New Template: Publish New "Project Progress Management" template
• Email Action Enhancement: "Send Email" action adds three new configuration items: CC, BCC, and Reply To
• Action Variable Enhancement: In actions like "Send Email", the variable selector adds two new variables, supporting formatted output of multiple row records as tables or lists
• Loop Action Enhancement: Child actions in the "Loop" action now support selecting the current loop record as a variable
• Resource Selector Optimization: Improved resource selector with "Load More" and real-time search capabilities
• Visitor Management: New "Guest Management" feature launched, supporting inviting guests to join the space via links
• Markdown Editor Enhancement: Markdown editor now supports inserting unordered and ordered lists
• Database Toolbar: New sorting feature added to the database toolbar
• Bulk Operations: Support for bulk deletion of records through mouse area selection
• space Integration: New "Claude.ai" and "Google AI" integrations added to space integrations
• Create Mission Action Enhancement: "Create Mission" action adds configurations for "View Specified View" and "Jump to Space Node"
• Mission Types: "Create Mission" action adds two new mission types: "Update Record" and "Create Record"

✨ UI/UX Improvements

• Drawer Animation: Optimized UI drawer transition animation effects
• Skeleton Screen: Improved page data loading with skeleton screen effects for better user experience
• Resource Editor Optimization: Optimized icon sizes for database and view selection dropdowns in the resource editor
• New User Guide Optimization:
  • Added loading effect to AI wizard
  • Added default values to template installation steps in the AI wizard, pre-selecting the first template
• Template Publishing Interface: Optimized template publishing interface display
• Import Success Prompt: Updated text for "Import Successful" and "Template Published Successfully" pop-ups
• Sort Control Optimization:
  • Added friendly prompt to field search input box in "Sort" modal when no fields are available
  • Optimized field option rendering in variable selector for better user experience
• Template Readme: Optimized "Completed" button style in template readme mission for better user experience
• Field Display Style: Optimized display styles for "Multiple select" and "Member" fields
• Space Navigation Bar: Added tutorial video entry to the left navigation bar of the space
• AI Launcher Optimization: Optimized icons for different category types in AI launcher, improving interface aesthetics
• Database Toolbar: Optimized button font sizes on the database toolbar for better aesthetics
• Table Text Color: Adjusted text color in databace content areas for improved readability
• Style Detail Optimization:
  • Optimized spacing and other style details in the variable selector

🔧 Fixes

• Space Audit Log: Fixed issues with displaying space audit logs
• AI Guide: Fixed UI freezing issues when building applications with AI guide
• Mission Details Page: Fixed issue with "Next" button not redirecting to correct record entry when opening mission details page via the link in email content
• Database Toolbar: Fixed issue where "Sort" modal in database toolbar couldn't be closed in certain situations
• Trigger Issues: Fixed "New Form Submission" trigger not working properly
• Excel Import:
  • Fixed abnormal prompt when clicking "Stop Import" in Excel file import modal
  • Fixed unclear prompt message after successful Excel file import
  • Fixed inability to jump to target resource node via "Go to View" text button after Excel file import
  • Fixed imported files not automatically displaying in the resource list after Excel import
• Field Issues:
  • Fixed issue allowing creation of fields with identical names in databases
  • Fixed issue preventing conversion of "Single Line Text" field type to "Created Time", "Modified Time", "Modified By" fields
  • Fixed page error when converting "Checkbox" field type to "Attachment" type
  • Fixed page crash when converting "Single Line Text" field to "Multi Select" field type with existing content
  • Fixed parameter error: Invalid value issue when converting "Percentage" field to "Phone" field for the first time
• Associated Records: Fixed issue with inability to re-select corresponding associated records in the association record selector after importing bikafile files
• View Editor: Fixed sorting not taking effect in view editor
• Database Issues:
  • Fixed error when accessing parent folder of a deleted database
  • Fixed database page not opening in certain cases after deleting a field used as a view filter condition
• Field Configuration: Fixed issue with incorrect option values appearing in option list after changing single/multiple select configurations
• Action Issues:
  • Fixed issue where changes to message content in "Send Message to WeCom Group" action were not taking effect
  • Fixed issue with inability to set email recipients by clicking "View More" button in "Send Email" action configuration interface
• Resource Nodes: Fixed issue where resource nodes wouldn't immediately disappear/appear after deletion or addition
• Folder Editing: Fixed character omission phenomenon when typing in folder editing page
• Attachment Upload: Fixed issue where attachment upload pop-up wasn't fully visible when attachment field was the last field in the database
• Export Issues:
  • Fixed issue where closing the "Export Progress" pop-up didn't trigger a secondary confirmation prompt when exporting .bika files
  • Fixed "Include Database Record" option not taking effect when exporting .bika files or publishing templates
• Cell Operations: Fixed issues with copying and pasting member cells, and errors when drag-and-drop pasting
• Excel Template: Fixed issue with abnormal display of field names in table headers after downloading Excel templates
• Bika File Import: Fixed error when importing .Bika files containing attachment fields
• View Editor: Fixed Output validation failed error preventing view editor from opening
• Trigger Configuration: Fixed page crash issue when selecting databases in "New Record Created" trigger configuration interface under certain conditions
• Resource Editor:
  • Fixed error when adding new views in resource editor
  • Fixed incorrect display of resource description in resource editor after adding database description
• Action Editor: Fixed issue where target databases couldn't be searched in "Find Records" action editing interface when search method was set to "Filter based on view"
• Page Translation: Fixed issue preventing page translation using "Google Translate"
• Template Installation: Fixed issue where resource list wasn't immediately refreshed after template installation
• Resource Node Details: Fixed incomplete display of contained sub-resources in resource node details page
• Account Binding: Fixed issue preventing binding of third-party accounts
• Executors and Triggers: Fixed search input boxes not being fixed at the top for actions and triggers
• Sort Control:
  • Fixed issue where Chinese search for existing fields in "Sort" control's field search input box would automatically select fields
  • Fixed intermittent issue where Chinese input in "Sort" control's field search input box would be interrupted
  • Fixed search box losing focus when deleting text content in "Sort" control's field search input box
  • Fixed issue where some fields couldn't be selected in sort control
  • Fixed incorrect display of sorting options for "Checkbox" field type in database's sorting modal
• Page Redirection: Fixed issue where page wasn't redirecting to space homepage after deleting the currently accessed resource node
• Template Publishing: Fixed template publishing failure issue
• AI Wizard: Fixed issue of repeated dialogue playback in ai wizard
• Action Type Switching: Fixed issue requiring two clicks to select when switching action types
• Search Control: Fixed issue preventing content input in "Search" control
• Sort Control Issues:
• Template Details: Fixed "Included Resources" not displaying on template details explanation page
• Resource Editing: Fixed issue where clicking "Edit Folder" opened the database editor instead
• Automation Node: Fixed issue preventing creation of new automation nodes
• Template Folder: Fixed page crash when clicking "Edit" button on template folders
• Website Access: Fixed inability to access Bika official homepage and template application pages when not logged in
• Form Description: Fixed issue preventing form description editing
• Notification Center: Fixed inability to jump to record details from notification center
• View Sorting: Fixed unexpected scrollbar appearing after opening the "Sort" modal of database view
• Multi Select Field: Corrected default background color for "Multi Select" fields
• Cell Copy and Paste: Resolved copy and paste issues for "Date", "Checkbox", "Currency", "Association" and other field type in cells
• Resource List: Fixed style issues when hovering over resource list
• Input Box Style: Fixed style issues with input boxes
• Resource Node Menu: Fixed unresponsive menu items in resource node context menu under certain conditions
• Resource Editor Sorting: Fixed issue where sorting rules configured in resource editor were not taking effect

🎁 Miscellaneous

• Tutorial Videos: Tutorial videos published as blog posts
• Action Configuration: Updated redirect URLs for question mark buttons in some action configuration interfaces to uniformly jump to the help center
• Multilingual Text: Updated multilingual text for record selection placeholders

🚧 Refactoring

• Template Details: Asynchronous loading of workflow diagrams in template details to improve loading speed
• Database Initialization: Refactored asynchronous database seed code to improve startup speed
• Component Replacement: Removed FormSelect component, replaced with NodeResourceSelect component
• View Sorting: Replaced FormSelectInput component with SelectInput component for view sorting
• Paste Functionality: Limited multi-column pasting to avoid abnormal issues caused by excessive data volume

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