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Crust releases Corteza 2021.3.8

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Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, has released Corteza 2021.3.8. This new release includes the following updates and improvements:

Corteza Server

  • Fixed XSS sanitization on text fields
  • Fixed workflow boot-time race condition with settings notification
  • Workflow handler closure fix
  • Refactored workflow execution – race condition prevention

Corteza Web applications (clients)

Corteza Workflow:

  • Force users to save workflows before building them
  • Fixed onInterval and onTimestamp trigger constraints

Corteza Low Code:

  • Throttle record manipulation API calls

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A Road Map Towards Digital Sovereignty

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Digital sovereignty and privacy are becoming an increasing priority as digital and online technology continue to evolve and advance.

Digital sovereignty is defined as a geographical area’s ability to control the data, software and hardware it relies on and creates. The convergence of information has now resulted in data becoming a valuable commodity.

For individuals, digital sovereignty refers to one’s ability to own and control the handling of their data safety and privacy. Personal individual data is often collected and exploited by bigger corporations, which is unethical and an invasion of user privacy. Most users expect their country’s government to protect their digital privacy, and therefore many countries must follow a series of steps to achieve optimal digital sovereignty.

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Crust releases Corteza 2021.3.7

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Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, has released Corteza 2021.3.7. This new release includes the following updates and improvements:

Corteza Server

  • Fixed record updating for modules with deleted fields
  • Fixed interaction between read-only module fields and their default values
  • Added validation for Corredor workflow steps
  • Improved record value manipulation from inside workflows
  • Improved system security

Corteza Web applications (clients)

Corteza UI libraries:

  • Added missing invoker when executing client-scripts
  • Reworked auth plugin to selectively clear localStorage

Corteza Workflow:

  • Added validation for Corredor workflow steps. Disables Corredor workflow steps if Corredor is not active; throws error if the steps are already used, but Corredor is inactive
  • Fixed input bug for deferred triggers (timestamp and interval)
  • Reordered workflow and trigger saving to conform with the back-end logic

Corteza Low Code:

  • Fixed record value validation for required, forbidden fields
  • Fixed module and chart sorting by their timestamps
  • Improved record and user selector field state management

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Crust releases Corteza 2021.3.6

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Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, has released Corteza 2021.3.6. This new release includes the following updates and improvements:

Server

  • Fixed module field default value validation with required fields
  • Temporarily reverted “fixed filtering with multi-value field”

Compose

  • Fixed the pre-filter for User module fields

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Crust releases Corteza 2021.3.5

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Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, has released Corteza 2021.3.5. This new release includes the following updates and improvements:

Server

  • Fixed federation structure sync, added a response wrapper to API response
  • Added manipulation functions for KV and KV-like types for setting values with dynamic keys
  • Fixed filtering with multi-value field
  • Improved workflow error handling
    • prevent the try-catch step from ending the exec session
    • prevent pre-run validation checks to cycle the exec

Compose

  • Fixed logout issues
  • Fixed Corredor helpers to properly use ListResponse
  • Added federation toast translations

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Crust releases Corteza 2021.3.4

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Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, has released Corteza 2021.3.4. This new release includes the following updates and improvements:

Server

  • Data import:
    • Resolved CSV size limitation issue
  • Auth:
    • Fixed session lifetime when doing external authentication
  • SCIM:
    • Improved SCIM support (removing role/group members)

Compose UI

  • Fixed error handling in namespace editor

Corteza Workflow

  • Added failsafe to prevent infinite workflows due to implicit invocations
  • Improved integration between Corteza workflow and Corredor
  • Fixed bug where workflow wasn’t being rerendered after save
  • Improved list import error reporting

Admin UI

  • Auth clients & users (impersonation on client_credentials grant type)
  • Hiding of document previews if the render driver is not available

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What Is the Future Of Automation?

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Decades ago, scientists and sci-fi authors dreamt of a technology that could understand, plan and execute tasks without any human intervention. Today that dream has turned into reality. The rapid evolution of digital technology and AI has not only enabled automation in workplaces but also significantly increased its average utility levels over the last few decades.

Mckinsey estimates that automation can boost the global economy by 1.4% annually. As automation techniques continue to be integrated into professional industries, the productivity, safety, efficiency, and overall profitability quotients of office operations have experienced overwhelming growth rates. Read more

Crust releases Corteza 2021.3.2

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Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, has released Corteza 2021.3.2. This new release includes the following updates and improvements:

  • Compose
    • Fixed field picker bug where double click didn’t add an element
    • Fixed module fields not respecting field order in module edit
  • Auth
    • Improved auth procedures
    • fixed excessive redirects
  • Workflow
    • Added workflow testing with custom initial scope; A way to test workflows directly from the Workflow builder with custom scopes
  • Admin
    • Added Sessions; a way to easily monitor workflow execution and examine failed workflows

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Crust releases Corteza 2021.3.1

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Crust, the driving force behind Corteza, has released Corteza 2021.3.1. This new release includes the following updates and improvements:

  • Envoy
    • Improved ComposeRecord cross-referencing
    • Improved ComposeRecord self-referencing
  • Compose
    • Fixed improper one-dimensional page block rescaling
    • Fixed bug where record selector default options were not displayed if query existed
  • Auth
    • Improved provisioning of auth clients
    • When possible, keep the user on the same page after auth flow is complete
  • Workflow
    • Swimlanes now need to be double-clicked to open configurator
    • Test workflow overlay is now removed after a change on workflow is made
    • Fixed a bug where stepID’s were reused
    • Improved Ctrl/CMD + S so it works from more places than before
    • Improved creating new workflow “flow”
    • Fixed Test workflow tooltips
    • Fixed typos and bugs in some default CRM workflows
  • Admin
    • Moved Corredor Scripts under Automation

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What is a Drag-and-Drop Editor?

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Visuals play a huge role in the development of the consumers’ perception of your brand. 75% of users form their opinion of a site based on its visual aesthetics. Therefore, your low-cpde app needs to have an attractive and well-designed user interface. However, traditional app design techniques rely on huge amounts of complicated code to create simple visual elements.

With the rise of low-code solutions, drag-and-drop editors have become more vital for an effective app design. Drag-and-drop editors allow programmers to simply “drag and drop” any visual design element from a given set of options, which will automatically be supported with an appropriate coding language counterpart. Read more