Flowfactory 3.5.0 - Technical Release Notes

FF-7654 Activity: Invite user

DescriptionA new workflow activity now enables user invitations without requiring access to GO, allowing system admins to invite users without granting full development environment access. The invite email's subject and body text are customizable and include an invite link. Each invitation also requires a valid expiration date.

FF-7324 Find Multiple Entities In DB - Order by

DescriptionThe "Find Multiple Entities in DB" activity now includes an option to order search results by specified parameters. Users can choose to sort results in either ascending or descending order, simplifying result grouping and sorting.

FF-8271 Limit for Find multiple entities in DB activity

DescriptionRetrieving large collections (e.g., the 100,000 most recent entities) could impact performance as there was no way to limit the number of entities returned. This limitation also complicated creating virtual collections for statistical analysis.A new feature allows users to specify result limits on collections when using Find Multiple Entities Activity, making it possible to retrieve, for example, the latest 100 or first 200 entities. This enhancement improves performance and simplifies virtual collection creation for statistics.

FF-10162 Prefetch loading too much data

An issue with SQL generation could cause too many rows to be loaded from database when executing a query that included prefetch paths.A fix has been implemented for this which will result in faster loading of view data in some cases.

FF-10093 Timestamp for version creation.

• In the list for Development Versions, a column is added that displays the date and time for when the version was created.
• In the list for Test Applications, a column is added that displays the date and time for when the version was modified.
  • The date column for 'Created' now also shows a time stamp.
  • The 'Created' and 'Modified' dates are also displayed in the application details view.
• In the list for Customer Applications, a column is added that displays the date and time for when the version was modified.
  • The date column for 'Created' now also shows a time stamp.
  • The 'Created' and 'Modified' dates are also displayed in the application details view.

FF-10067 UI Permissions failing

DescriptionUI permissions were not restricting edits as expected. A user was able to modify fields in a grid, even when the data should have been locked.UI permissions now prevent changes to fields on locked requests, aligning the behavior with access control expectations.

FF-9209 Web Client - Add summary row for Search Report

DescriptionRow summary for Search Report results were not showing for end users.SolutionIt is now possible to choose a summary type inside the Report Field settings dialog located inside the Search Report designer in FlowFactory Studio

FF-10216 Web Client - Missing scroll bars in search reports

DescriptionThe scroll bar was behaving weird in some situations. The issue was discrepancies between ordinary browser scroll and scroll behavior from 3rd party library.SolutionThe issue was solved by using the scroll behavior from the 3rd party library for more consist behavior.

FF-9916 Web Client - The enabled state for menu commands not correctly updated

DescriptionThe enabled state for menu commands(in eg ribbon, sidebar etc.) were not updating if the same view was already opened(with different data) until the user made a change in the view.SolutionThe evaluation of enabled state for menu buttons is now made every time a user opens a view.

FF-4787 Pie/Doughnut Chart

DescriptionWe are thrilled to announce the release of our new “Pie Chart Control“ in FlowFactory Studio. Now, users can easily add visually appealing and informative pie charts to their views with just a few clicks. This new feature will enhance the data visualization capabilities of our platform, allowing users to present their data in a clear and engaging way. Try out the pie chart control today and take your data presentations to the next level!The control is present in the view designer in FlowFactory Studio.

FF-10105 Chart - add more features

DescriptionAs a part of the development of Charts in FlowFactory Studio. We have now added more features to the charts. Users can now customize colors, choose label formats, show export button and configure hover effects.

FF-10258 Charts - Accumulate values for chart data with same argumentValue

DescriptionHaving multiple data points for same argument in a chart resulted in weird behavior and layout.SolutionIf a argument in a chart has multiple data points then the value displayed in a chart is an aggregation of all the matching data points.

FF-10204 Exceptions in browser when hovering over logout button in ribbon

Several errors would be logged to web browser console when hovering over logout button in applications that uses Ribbon style menu. These extra error logs no longer appears.

FF-10193 Go: Message is shown when setting language for application

A debug message was shown in GO when selecting language for project, this has been removed.

FF-10227 Running deployment not restarted after toggling Always Running

Toggling Always Running for an application instance that was already running could cause issues with restart after future upgrade of instance.This has been fixed so that upgrade always can restart the instance to load the updated application definition.

FF-10179 Move .NET 6 projects to .NET 8

We have upgraded .NET from version 6 to version 8 for platform services.

FF-10218 Project Details View - Change layout

• Community lable added right below project name.
• Favorite-function is moved up in the same section as the Project Name.