Today, we released a fresh new design spanning across most areas of Create and the Administration page to make it more modern, intuitive and user-friendly.

Highlights

• Simplified navigation in Create and administration for quicker access to key features.
• Streamlined forms.
• Refreshed layout with improved readability and consistency.
• Easier access to administration across available units for Unit Administrators.

This is the first step in an ongoing effort to make Create faster, easier and more enjoyable to use.

More updates will follow.

Note

We are currently updating our documentation to reflect the new interface. In the meantime, some screenshots or instructions may not match the updated design.

This sprint, we focused on improving the way of working with the binding editor.Here are the changes that were released during the past 2 weeks.

New features and improvements

• New Image binding is now available that streamlines the way of working with images in recipes.
  • All types of image bindings are now merged into one.
  • Old image bindings have been marked as "legacy".
• It is now possible to click on images and charts in the recipe editor.
• Added ability to run transformations automatically when working in the recipe editor.
  • This allows for administrators to bind directly to transformed sample data.
  • An option has been added where the administrator can select between these three behaviours:
    • User is prompted every time when inserting a binding, where the transformed data is not up-to-date.
    • Data is always transformed automatically without a prompt.
    • Data is not transformed automatically.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue, where it was not possible to update Private Captures in some cases.

This sprint, we focused on improvements to the user identity form, captures, and the admin experience of setup forms. Here are the changes released during the past two weeks.

New features and improvements

• User identity form:
  • As soon as a user enters a unit where they haven't filled out all the required fields of the user identity form, they will be warned that required info is missing and offered to fill out the form.
    • This enables administrators to rely on the user identity form data when creating recipes.
  • When a user identity form field is used in a recipe, its value can now be captured.
    • This enables users to store common alternate values.
• Captures:
  • Captures are now private by default and can be published to become available to the other members of your organization.
    • Users are reminded not to share sensitive information before publishing a capture.
    • Any existing published captures remain published.
    • Published captures can also be unpublished. This removes all existing subscriptions.
• Form setup:
  • When adding multiple recipes to a recipe reference form field as an admin, the recipe picker will navigate to the previously chosen location.
    • This should make it easier to add multiple recipe references from the same content source and folder.
  • Combined form field types TextField and TextInputMultiple into TextField.
    • Multiple lines are now a setting in the configuration of a TextField form field.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where user identity form field settings were visible in the form editor, even though user identity form fields can only be edited in the user identity form setup.

This sprint contains some bigger items in relations to support for new authentication mechanisms, as well as some minor features and improvements.

New features and improvements

General

• New authentication mechanism for OpenID Connect is now available.
  • Supports both Public and Confidential clients.
• Captures are no longer included in backups.
• Subdomain field on login page is now automatically in focus when loading the page.

Word

• Added new DateTime binding for Word recipes.
• Added support for bindings to any type of Document properties in Word recipes.

PowerPoint

• Extended RichTextHtml binding to support more styling attributes.

Bugfixes

• Minor fixes.

This sprint has focused on features that improve the experience of Create as well as enabling a main page to access the application.

New features and improvements

• New login page added to help users navigate to their organization.
  • Login page is accessed through app.omnidocs.cloud.
• PDF Forms disabled for preview and generation.
• Form step is now skipped on Recipes if they contain no form.
• New filter query parameter added to Create, allowing users to navigate directly to a search through the URL.
  • The parameter is also appended to the URL when filling out the search field.

Bugfixes

• Fixed issues with RecipeReference components being validated as “Okay” when required, even when no options were selected.
• Other minor fixes.

This sprint has mostly been focusing on improving the capabilities of our document generation engine as well as minor updates.

New features and improvements

• Appendix binding has been added to the engine to allow appendices to be inserted dynamically at the end of documents.
• Form logic has been moved to the back-end to align API-capabilities with the front-end.
• Generation of documents based on Virtual Recipes through the API (silent flow) is now possible.
• Form step when creating documents is now skipped if a recipe contains no form.
• The setting on Date- and Number form components for Use raw date in transformation is now false by default.
• Removed Required option from checkbox form components.

Bugfixes

• Fixed issues with SVG-files in docx text elements when inserted into a main document.
• Fixed stability issues with the Select form component.

In this sprint we have been focusing on minor adjustments and bugfixes.

New features and improvements

• Multi-select RecipeReference components where all options are mandatory (or no options are present) are now hidden in the form.
• Other misc. adjustments.

Bugfixes

• Dropdown lists in binding editor are now correctly labeled by property name instead of display value.
• Fixed issue where RichHtmlText in PPTX was not handling styling correctly.
• Fixed issues with authentication for new users that are logging in for the first time.

In this sprint, we've been focusing more on quality of life updates, as well as doing some groundwork for bigger features that are coming up later this quarter. Here's what was released:

New features and improvements

• Input field for filename is now hidden in the Create add-in for Office.
• Remember last unit and content source visited.
  • Create will now remember the last unit and content source you have visited, and will automatically redirect you to the place where you left off.
• Name field on form components.
  • Form components can now be referred to by an internal name without influencing the end-user experience.
• Tags on Virtual Recipes enabled.
• Alphabetical sorting added to:
  • Unit picker.
  • Organization picker.
  • Captures.
  • Subscriptions.
  • Integration types.
  • Tags.
• Date and number formatting now applied to input data in silent flows.

Bugfixes

• Improved validation on names for Custom functions to disallow illegal characters.
• Fixed an issue with inserting text elements in Outlook that contained large images.

Another sprint has been completed, and here are the changes released in the past two weeks!

• Admins are now warned about possible unsaved changes before navigating away from content administration pages (Recipe, Data source, and Custom function editors).
• Backup improvements.
  • Better management of large backups.
  • Removed automatic hourly backups to improve performance. Daily backups are now performed at midnight UTC.
• New functions available in transformations:
  • items_to_object
    • Inverse function of the existing items function.
  • remove_property
    • Select all the properties of an object except one.
  • timespan
    • Calculate the difference between two dates.
  • trim
    • Trim unnecessary characters from the start and the end of a string.
  • trim_end
    • Trim unnecessary characters from the end of a string.
  • trim_start
    • Trim unnecessary characters from the start of a string.
• Bugfixes:
  • template function issues resolved.

This time, we're doing a Friday update due to our upcoming Easter holidays.

This sprint, we wrapped up the rework of roles that was a long time coming! Admins should have an easier time managing access across different units. Here are all the updates from this week:

• Roles rework.
  • Extensive changes to the role system in Create. Read here for more details.
• Fixed an issue where inserting bindings in the Binding editor affected spacing around the binding.
• Captures view in user site improved.
• Notification style update.
• Bug fixes:
  • Updating folder name no longer affects RecipeReference form fields pointing to the folder.