What’s new in Budibase: July 2023

[joebudi]

Budibase is officially a collaborative platform where IT professionals can work together to build internal apps, faster. The July release introduces a number of new features, including; multiplayer support, running Budibase in an air-gapped environment, customizing the color of options within a select field, disabling notifications on blocks, and more.

Team up to move app building forward, faster

We are thrilled to announce that multiplayer mode is now available within the design and automate sections of Budibase. Creators can now:

• Give colleagues access to data.
• Invite teammates into your design process.
• Collaborate to build better automations.
• Build better apps with their team, faster.

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Customize the color of options

Customize the color of options within Options and Multi-select fields.

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Air-gapped deployment

Available to enterprise customers only.

Enterprise customers can now deploy Budibase within an air-gapped environment.

If you're interested in deploying Budibase within an air-gapped environment, please contact sales.

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Further updates

• Disable notifications within Block components
  Block components can be configured to disable notifications

• Filter relationship pickers
  You now now apply filtering to your relationship picker component.

• Download system logs
  Budibase self-host installations now support exporting system logs (up to 20MB).

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New content

Video

• How to work with REST APIs and Budibase](https://youtu.be/zeMVcx59IsE)
• Build a form on top of a SQL database](https://youtu.be/PZQNxwMk0es)
• Build an AI app in under 20 minutes](https://youtu.be/64l-sBltgnw)
• Build a simple CRUD app on top of PostgreSQL

Blog

• What are the components of an API
• What are API headers
• Integration for digital transformation - 6 methods
• Workflow management database design
• What is an API call?
• ITOM vs ITSM

Docs

• Helpers - inbuilt functions to prevent the need for writing code
• How to scroll to top of screen
• Update date field on change

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Bug fixes

• Cannot filter by relationship on new SQL datasource GET Request transformer returning blank after 3rd expansion #7239
• Multiple loop steps can be added to an automation step causing loops to silently fail Fix crash when attempting to parse a nullish automation error #7165
• Query bindings drawer - existing binding value is cleared on cancel #7090
• Catch parsing error in rowProcessor and prevent it firing bb-alert cannot access previous account and app #7035
• When custom role doesn't exist in production app - assigned users should be treated as public Cypress: Test changes for UI + Components #7026
• Empty .update() call detected error displayed when updating a table record from the side panel Fix/husky bootstrap #6924
• Not able to connect to gcp postgres SSL, client-cert client-key, server-ca Need help querying REST data using a value from a data selector #5262
• Selecting and de-selecting search fields on a Table block before ejecting causes the screen to permanently break Airtable Create query failing #7280
• Field group layout type setting does not appear when ejecting a block @media css #7276
• Clicking on Data or Automate tabs when a field dropdown is selected causes the page to open as a drawer Airtable Update - PATCH or PUT #7275
• Number of filters set is different between Match Any and Match All #7264
• Fetch tables after upgrade to 2.8.1 spins infinitely when the datasource had no tables, only queries Querying sub-collections/nested collections on Firestore #7261
• Builder - Bindings drawer HBS {{ /if }} syntax highlight issue #7260
• Edit column icon appears for datasource preview table Make "Created by" "Updated by" columns one sided #7254
• Cannot eject table block Support incremental form saving #7229
• Button action: 'navigate to' screen selection is empty Feature suggestion - set default apps #7180
• if you create a google sheet table, you can't delete it Searching for records in Budibase DB #7140
• Issues with Onchange update record events Insert table ID back into query for follow-up pagination query #7117
• Helm chart uses wrong image tags Set conditional value for a relationship picker #7070
• User Access Field Empty for Invited User in App Side Panel when Invited via User Settings Panel. Groups issues #7043
• Settings,Email, Broken ui in the base format email templates allow access to dynamic filter setting for rest api data sources #7006
• Unexpected undo when editing inputs within the design view. Minor automation fixes #6987
• User Data table, edit user link is broken Automate - used for filter, sort, group by, ... ?? #6981
• CSV exporting and importing multi-select columns Research Spike - Types/Autocomplete within Automations #6963
• Unable to create a user through email invite Plugin Management UI #6947
• Clear Form does not unselect multi select picker unable to delete site #6701
• Deleting a data provider with nested parent container will prevent component being added to screen initially ‘No default value’ for primary key column Relationship Picker #6651
• Add sorting option "None" Creating related rows in more than one table #4998

[renrom]

Great work!

FYI. the Configuring form fields in a table block (recipe) is not working.

[melohagan]

I decided to remove the recipe as there's a video in the docs showing form field configuration! https://docs.budibase.com/docs/form-block#fields

More recipes to come in the future!