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Corteza 2021.9.9 released

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Corteza 2021.9.9 has been released. It includes the following updates, improvements and changes.

Release notes:

Added:
Changed:
  • Changed resource translation sanitization to be looser to support a wider range of formatting options (4278e5823).
Fixed:
  • Fixed missing role references for namespace export where the User module field defined role prefilters (cb44b6591).
  • Fixed improper namespace import resource re-identification due to resources being ignored (3b235e330).
  • Fixed workflow trace parameter (3e068026).
  • Fixed improper resource translation content sanitization for RTE contents (50671180d), link attributes (f699d4b1e).
  • Fixed actionlog codegen lapsus (d44d396b3)
  • Fixed missing roles in the impersonated user — roles were not included in the generated JWT (e4ba223da)
  • Fixed improper resource iterator data chunking which caused the database to error out for large datasets (69c95a5a3)
  • Fixed record list not working when duplicate fields reside on same page (c13dd1e81).
Security:
  • Added additional link tags to make them more secure (889e2485f).

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About Planet Crust

Planet Crust is the creator of and driving force behind Corteza, a 100% open-source low-code rapid application development, business process management and integration platform for software vendors, system integrators and internal development teams.

About Corteza

Corteza is a 100% open-source low-code rapid application development, business process management and integration platform for software vendors, system integrators and internal development teams. Corteza comes with an Apache 2.0 license and all code is published and can be reviewed at https://github.com/cortezaproject. All Corteza code is contributed to the Commons Conservancy Software Foundation. For more information about the project, visit www.cortezaproject.org or follow @CortezaProject on Twitter.

Planet Crust releases Corteza 2022.3: Corteza Discovery, Compose-Reporter Integration and more.

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Planet Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, is excited to announce a new major release: Corteza 2022.3. 2022.3 adds the search tool Discovery to Corteza, along with Compose-Reporter integration, UI configurations, additional API endpoints, user import/export capabilities and a UI for inspecting server-side issues.

Corteza Discovery

Discovery ads hyperlocal search and global federated search to Corteza. Discovery, which uses Open Search, makes several types of searches possible:

  • Detailed, sensitive or customized searches by external users with limited roles, e.g. a customer reviewing their home electricity consumption or a patient reviewing medical advice.
  • Searches by internal users based on their roles, e.g. based on what data they need to access or on their responsibilities or reporting requirements. The number of roles that can be defined is limitless.
  • Searches across multiple instances of Corteza.

With search enabled, new UI elements that allow searching overall accessible records and data will appear in any Corteza web application. For records that allow record viewing via page blocks, Corteza provides ad-hoc views to present record data.

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Corteza 2021.9.8 released

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Corteza 2021.9.8 has been released. It includes the following updates, improvements and changes.

Changed:
  1. Changed default background colour to white in MetricConfigurator (49a525a).
Fixed:
  1. Fixed count expression function to properly handle the no argument case when typed values are being used (usually when invoked via workflow expressions) (5d7d3aa3).
  2. Fixed improper page blockID assignment on page create (95065f8e7).
  3. Fixed improper page blockID assignment on page create (95065f8e7).
  4. Fixed role management on external auth providers (d679a59).
  5. Append custom args when executing Corredor scripts via Compose REST handlers (2741e3577).
  6. Fixed improper handling of unresolved (type any) values (5ff68c414).
  7. Hide refresh data button when no data is present in MetricConfigurator (8fc446c).
  8. Increase z-index for PageBuilder to avoid toolbar with icons appearing below the Block’s title and description (667a9b0).
  9. Translate messages in errors component (acd5473, 1e933b2, 0af18b1).
  10. Reminders of other people showing up (63b3efe).
  11. Translations of field configurators and calendars (d4a379e, 5f00980).
  12. Relative values with charts (eb5c4c7, 025cfd5).
  13. Fix number of record to be exported in ExporterModal (eb5c4c7, 5f36917).
  14. Add missing input string to integration gateway namespace for admin (eb5c4c7, 64d27e1).
  15. Fixed cumulative funnel chart value calculations (0fbce36).
  16. Fixed improper reporter funnel chart display due to invalid data type conversion (c7ca7d1).
Security:
  1. Strengthen reset-password flow with rate limiting and invalidation of existing tokens(d2d0245d5).
  2. Improve attachment validation on size and type for compose uploads (6f19f00b2).
  3. Sanitize back-link on logout page (XSS) (8c0a62284).
  4. Refactor delete all session of user from auth page (23a8b757ee).

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Corteza 2021.9.7 released

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Corteza 2021.9.7 has been released. It includes the following updates, improvements and changes.

Fixed:
  • Fixed set expression function to properly handle types provided by workflow execution (f42d707).
  • Fixed OIDC provider scope string issue (b1572e1).
  • Fixed workflow issues with invoker/runner (c4d80b88).
  • Fixed resource translations for content and automation page blocks (8a8cf42e).
  • Fixed inconsistent NULL order for different DB engines causing paging cursor issues (2be460ee).

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Corteza 2021.9.6 released

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Corteza 2021.9.6 has been released. It includes the following updates, improvements and changes.

Added:
  • Added support for RTL direction.
  • Added support for additional arguments when invoking automation scripts via API (91eb88d2).
  • Added support for resource translation on select field options (c72902a8).
  • Added support for SAML signed requests (5e4486c7, 7ec02f6e).
  • Added support for SAML HTTP binding (717cae5c0b, 5cf0597b40)
  • Added option to hide the import button on the record list (cd982a8, 9c85d0b, 874e0b2).
  • Added support for version specific DB_DSN .env variable, simplifying development (c3516dd).
  • Added find and has expression functions (86deaea9).
  • Added sort expr function (be6b572)
  • Added support for multi-value filtering on record lists (d0213cb).
  • Added processing indicator when deleting records in record list (6d47c1b)
Fixed:
  • Refactored workflow execution and fixed runner/invoker logic (92224360).
  • Fixed improper attachment upload permission checks due to partial request parameters (#309, #346).
  • Fixed improper QL argument transformations based on the used database (#308).
  • Fix broken docker container health check on Corredor server (dce30ba).
  • Changed federation locales (91094e44).
  • Refactored minio store and fixed invalid bucket name issue (23a2446).
  • Fixed scrolling when only one pageBlock is added (88f3e72).
  • Fixed translations on password reset (87f08d8).
  • Fixed RBAC rules and workflows not applying after being imported via namespace import (ff6cadc0).
  • Fixed improper handling of empty resource translation strings (resource-translations) (4b264798, 043588f1).
  • Fixed external OIDC for Corteza flow (398242b).
  • Fixed percentage calculation for all types of charts (2b7c949).
  • Fixed field picker system field translations (fa80ade, 485187e).
  • Fixed namespace importing — additional request validation (ca178714b), improve internal resource identification (00dd86fb9, d247ec678, and 8be8be96d).
  • Fixed improper API request content parsing when Content-Type defines character set (d0154cc1b).
  • Fixed improper error handling for the upload component (a0a1ac0).
  • Fixed role-security setting for external providers (05a40ca).
  • Fixed issue with OIDC provider removal (c078808).
  • Fixed queue name matching on workflow onMessage event (79d8a842)
  • Fixed calendar event display for events that span multiple months (4d2f824)
  • Fixed record list filter for number and id fields (3b421a1)
  • Fixed namespace selector overflowing sidebar (b9aa41e)
  • Fixed metric page block field selector options (cb69c80)
  • Fixed chart rendering edge case where the canvas did not yet exist (1b965f8).
  • Fixed centering for the empty record list label (f467e0f)
  • Fixed inline record editor not checking permissions for deletion (f74d398)
  • Fixed improper reminder handling, causing them to sometimes not show (94247f0)
  • Fixed invalid membership fetch for closed roles (88955eb)
  • Fixed column order not persisting for ColumnPicker component (9659d9f, 2b7c949, b53bc6b).
Changed:
  • Make default value not required for multi fields (aae3f6f)
  • Prefill inline record editor related values (c457679)
  • Disable page deletion if it has sub-pages (67c3b2c)

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Corteza 2021.9.5 released

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Corteza 2021.9.5 has been released. It includes a long list of updates and improvements.

Important upgrade notes:
  • The record import via the import CLI command requires you to provide module field definitions along with the record import definitions. The constraint will be lifted in future patch releases.
Added:
  • Role security (forbidden, permitted, forced) on external authentication providers (91eb88d2).
  • Workflow functions for attachment management (8a8c7685).
  • OIDC support for corteza (a2091db).
  • Integration Gateway json response postfilter and http request to scope (b0590d2f).
  • JWT generate workflow function (eecf8670).
  • Unix strftime support to gval functions (d5001341).
  • Integer caster to gval functions (3473a267).
  • Added support for role permission cloning (0564fe7, d06cd41, 9bd530a).
  • Added custom processing button (6ec4157).
  • Translations for reporter webapp (6e26d5a, 931011c).
  • Added additional string manipulation functions to reporter expressions (a45c914e).
  • Added support for record import via the import CLI command (96556f54).
Fixed:
  • Translatable content (modules, names, pages, namespaces) is now sent with current language (5bd3bd37).
  • Improve slow performance in some casses with wf-loops by increesing workflow session state flushing from 10 to 1000 (486a5752).
  • Prevent table display elements from crashing if an empty join frame is recieved (f244b7b2).
  • Fixed improper report route bindings (d250827b).
  • Added missing type definition to the report filter perser registry (08ef5ab10).
  • Fixed panicking report filter marshaling when invalid (59ef8da1a).
  • Fixed improper handling of automation page blocks which define buttons with no references (047b647af).
  • Prevent text from exiting container in EditorToolbox (147dcd7).
  • Fixed improper date manipulation functions for reporter expressions (46372f55).
  • Fixed persistent run-as workflow issue after trigger removal (87f08d8b).
  • Fix access control checks on UI (e902382).
  • Fix user role membership picker (cadb6e1).
  • Fix module field order changing when you navigated to all records (3525ef8).
  • Fix record and user selector editors not rendering properly (09bca49).
  • Fix display element configurator options form not resetting properly (6b33655).
  • Broken translations on password reset (87f08d8)
  • Prevent error message from being transformed by toLowerCase() 32e9325)
Changed:
  • Changed chart display element configurator (b553f72).
Removed:

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Corteza 2021.9.4 released

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Corteza 2021.9.4 has been released. It includes a long list of updates and improvements.

  • Added .env options to control OAuth2 access and refresh token lifetime

  • Added support for base password constraints

  • Added translations for webapp-workflow

  • Added custom processing button

  • Added multi select to workflow options prompts

  • Added warning when workflow triggers paths change

  • Added expandable expressions editor to workflows

  • Fixed improper report filter type casting for ID-like values

  • Fixed default record module field value validation setup

  • Boolean value (record field) sanitization

  • Uint64 JSON serialization in APP_AUTOMATION payloads

  • Fixed invalid data point labeling for radial charts

  • Fixed report table pagination

  • Fixed workflow help shortcut opening when inputting

  • Admin role membership management

  • Update Bluemonday & net packages

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Corteza 2021.9.3 released

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Corteza 2021.9.3 has been released. It includes a long list of updates and improvements.

Changed:
  • All user’s access tokens are now removed after password change (01577191).
Fixed:
  • Fixed improper page block ref validation for yaml encode (5afc715f).
  • Fixed unstable RBAC check that was caused by more complex setup of roles and RBAC rules (a385fe1c).
  • Fixed multi value required field errors (a5e4fb21).
  • Fixed display elements configurator sometimes not loading correct information when switching between elements (b8121e5).
Added:

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Salesforce vs. Corteza
Which Is Better?

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Salesforce Sales CRM and the Salesforce Lightning Platform that underpins it are powerful tools for any business. But are they truly the best tools for what businesses and organizations need – or are they simply coasting on their market share and gargantuan marketing budget? And more importantly, is the high cost of Salesforce justified?

Salesforce vs. Corteza

Today we’re going to take an in-depth look at Salesforce CRM and compare it to Corteza CRM by Planet Crust.

Planet crust is the creator and driving force behind Corteza – a 100% fully open-source, UX-driven, standards-based low-code platform that comes with pre-built CRM and Case Management solutions. Other solutions are also possible, such as Integration Hub, Smart Cities, Supply Chain Management, Patient Management, Disaster Relief Management. Basically, any data-based solution you can think of, you can build on Corteza, which is one of its strongest selling points.

By contrast, Salesforce comes with a large library of existing solutions, including Analytics, Commerce, CRM, Marketing, Healthcare, Service and more. If anything, it’s this suite of products that is one of Salesforce’s selling points, though you do have to pay separately for each solution.

But in this article, we’re going to focus on Salesforce’s and Corteza’s respective CRMs and the low-code platforms they’re built on so you can decide which platform is better for you and your organization. Read more

Four Challenges Low-Code Platforms Face

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How to counter the challenges of customizability, data standardization, vendor lock-in and shadow IT.

By now, most technology leaders have come to recognize the value of low-code development in the rapid deployment of business-critical applications and the alleviation of technical debt. In fact, Gartner predicts that two-thirds of software development will be low-code by 2024. The market is also expected to grow by 23% by the end of the year.

Yet despite this rapid growth, several significant challenges remain. These difficulties continue to discourage some businesses from fully realizing the benefits of using low code development platforms (LCDP). Some of the most oft-cited challenges include a lack of customizability, the risk of vendor lock-in, and the rise of shadow IT.

While it is easy to think of these challenges as inherent limitations of the low-code approach, it is important to remember that, just like any platform, not all LCDPs are made equal. Hybrid low-code development environments and fully open-source platforms are just a couple of the alternatives to the relatively inflexible closed-source industry standards.

In this article, we will look at how these alternatives can help businesses overcome the common limitations of low-code. Read more