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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).

View the full changelog.

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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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Can a Low-Code Platform Be Truly Free?

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The language commonly used to describe commercially available software can often seem highly technical and complicated. It can be somewhat tricky for average users to decipher and understand. Therefore, many users may not truly understand the meaning of a low-code, open-source platform and what exactly it entails. Although many platforms may advertise themselves as completely open-source, some of these programs are open-core platforms.

Open-source application platforms are defined as software that is entirely free to use and allows users to utilize the complete functionality and features of the program. However, an open-core application platform is defined as one which provides a specific set of features and functionality for free, with users having to pay to upgrade to a paid version of the platform to avail of the program’s full functionality.

Therefore, Planet Crust’s open-source, low-code software is completely free and allows users to take advantage of a wide variety of features without requiring them to upgrade to a paid, commercialized version of the platform.

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Crust releases Corteza 2021.9, including internationalization, Integration Gateway and much more.

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Cork, Ireland, 11 October 2021.

Crust Technology, the driving force behind the open-source low-code platform Corteza, is excited to announce a new major release: Corteza 2021.9. This release adds loads of new functionality to Corteza. Highlights of this release are added support for internationalization, an Integration Gateway, a new reporting tool, the ability to export and import complete applications create with the low-code platform and an improved UI.

New features and improvement in Corteza 2021.9

Added support for internationalization

Corteza 2021.9 allows you to translate the user interface and any low-code application you build, including locale-specific numbers and date-time formatting. Once translated, the user can select his/her preferred language in the user settings, and use Corteza in their own language. Corteza can have multiple languages activated, which means that each user can see Corteza in their own language, even though they are working in the same app.

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Why Are Workflows Important?

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Workflows are crucial for maintaining a systematic sequence of administrative and organizational processes from initiating a project to completion. 

It can help streamline and automate repetitive and time-consuming day-to-day organizational tasks. Which will help improve your business’s efficiency and productivity. 

Clearly defined workflows have a wide variety of benefits that can aid employees to perform their duties more productively. It helps managers with decision-making and provides cross-departmental collaboration opportunities.

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Why Do Teachers Prefer Smart Schools?

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A smart school is defined as the use of advanced equipment and digital technology in classrooms to enhance the overall educational environment and learning experience.

This includes using education management systems and mechanisms such as video projectors, digital note-taking tools and cloud-based database storage. The global smart learning market is expected to reach a value of $56.5 billion by the year 2024, with a compound annual growth rate of 19.5%.

With the rise of remote learning, smart schools are becoming a more and more vital aspect of providing a satisfactory academic experience. Smart schools can fundamentally and successfully remove geographical, technological and digital barriers to expanded and diverse educational and learning opportunities. Read more

What is the Role of a Citizen Developer?

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The power of technology has always rested in the hands of those who understand it. But with new innovations in the field of software development, that dynamic is changing. Low-code and no-code tools are now giving people from non-technical backgrounds, to create complex applications independently with minimal training.

A citizen developer is a person who typically comes from a non-engineering background and builds applications with the help of IT-sanctioned low-code and no-code platforms. Citizen development is slowly becoming a crucial department for companies as the need for unique user-centric apps is growing. According to a survey, almost 84% of respondents said they wanted to see their companies do more to encourage citizen development.

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What Is an All-Hands Meeting?

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An all-hands meeting is defined as an organization-wide meeting where all employees and senior management gather to share significant sales and business profitability updates, align current company operations with future goals and objectives, celebrate achievements on both an organizational and individual basis and allow employees to raise concerns and ask questions.

All-hands meetings are extremely beneficial for helping your employees become more personally invested in your organization and its goals and objectives. When employees personally invest in the companies’ goals, their productivity levels increase. Read more

What Is Google I/O?

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Although it was cancelled in 2020 due to the onset of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Google I/O is set to take place virtually from May 18th to May 20th. And, this year the conference will be open to all attendees, free of cost.

Google I/O is an annual developer conference where anyone who is interested in obtaining significant information regarding product releases, hardware and software advances, and overall technological updates can attend. Attendees can expect to have access to various different informative workshops, question and answer forums and keynote speaker sessions.

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Crust releases Corteza 2021.3, including a new visual workflow builder

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Cork, Ireland, 6 April 2021.

Crust Technology, the driving force behind the open-source low-code platform Corteza, is excited to announce a new major release: Corteza 2021.3. The highlights of this release are a visual drag-and-drop workflow editor, a new UI, a template editor and authentication improvement.

New features and improvement in Corteza 2021.3

Corteza Workflow

The new workflow editor enables users to automate simple and complex processes, without the need for programming knowledge. It’s based on BPMN 2.0 standards, and easy and fast to use. Simply drag and drop the elements you need on the canvas, configure and connect them. Main features include:

  • Unlimited workflows anywhere in Corteza
  • Drag-and-drop editor
  • Zoom in, zoom out and move the canvas
  • Single or multiple start points (triggers)
    • On create, update or delete
    • On a manual interaction (a click on a button, such as “Covert this lead”)
    • On a scheduled interval (for example, every day at 1 am)
    • On a set date and time (you can define multiple “timestamps” for the same trigger)
  • Expressions (interact with values in your workflow. For example: calculate the grand total of a quote)
  • Functions (list of predefined functions, such as find records create a new record, find a template, send an email etc)
  • Iterators (loop through a list of records)
  • Error-handling
  • Gateways (check a value and continue with the workflow in the desired path)
  • Delay (pause the workflow at a certain point for a set time)
  • User interactions:
    • Alerts (for example, a confirmation message on the screen)
    • Choice prompt (select one of the two buttons. For example, yes and no)
    • Single input (ask the user for a value that the user can type in)
    • Option select (ask the user to select a value from a list)
  • Testing and debugging tools

Extensive documentation on workflows has been created, explaining each feature in great detail. This documentation also provides useful examples.

New UI

In collaboration with experts from the Dutch Accessibility Foundation, significant changes have been made to the UI. The fully responsive design follows the WCAG standard compliance (World Content Accessibility Guidelines), which makes Crust the leading innovator in accessibility in the Low-Code sector.

Template Editor

The new template editor allows you to define the generic document structure (such as a welcome email message or a quote PDF), which is then converted into an actual document based on the provided data. Templates are written in HTML and allow placeholders, functions and conditional rendering. After creating templates they can be rendered in Corteza workflow.

Authentication

This release comes with an OAuth2 server with Authorization code and client credentials flows. All authentication interfaces used by Corteza can now fully be modified and styled to your needs. Personalization is performed by defining a series of templates and assets (e.g. images and JavaScript code). This allows you to make the authentication screen match the company style guide.

Messaging Changes

Support for a Matrix-based federated messaging solution will be provided as of Corteza version 2021.6. The goal is to align with Corteza Record Federation, ensuring that using organisations can create richer, federated relationships, not limited to static records only. In preparation for this, the legacy Corteza Messaging solution has now been deprecated.

Other changes

  • Upgraded to Go 1.16
  • Removed obsolete asset embedding and move to //go:embed
  • Messaging code and endpoints removed
  • OAuth2 server with Authorization code and client credentials flows
  • Compose record federation now supports Activity Stream protocol
  • Codebase cleanup and removed With(ctx) anti-pattern
  • Added Envoy file encoders (export support)
  • Fixed UserBeforeUpdate/UserBeforeDelete
  • Auth web application is now deprecated

View the full changelog.

How to install Corteza

You can follow the local setup instructions for a local development or demonstration instance of Corteza. If you are looking for setting up a live deployment, check out the extensive production setup instructions. If you have questions, you can engage with other community members on the Corteza forum.

How to upgrade your Corteza instance

To upgrade your instance to the latest version of Corteza, please check out our Upgrade Guide.

Online demo

Crust Technology has an online demo available of this latest release. In it, you can try out the Low-Code platform, build your own apps, try out the existing apps (such as the CRM or Service Solution)  and much more.

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