Uinta Release: UX/UI Upgrades

Victor Sanchez

A Stack Of New Time-Saving Features

The Uinta Mountains are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States. As a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they are unusual for being the highest range in the contiguous United States running east to west.

The Web team has been hard at work on the Web UX/UI Refresh since December last year. We’re now rolling out a fresh new look and feel, with a focus on consistency across the web portal. You will notice a number of changes such as refreshed buttons, the ability to search for things while doing design (such as screens when calling a screen and selecting a user in the feed view of data entries, which is particularly useful when you have hundreds of screens or thousands of users).

QR Code Field Type

We’ve added a new field type that will dynamically generate QR codes based on data captured in your Forms.

This code can then be printed and placed on a stock item or an asset (for example) for easy scanning. It’s also easily scanned by other persons in your team, making for a simple “display & scan” option for sharing information in the field. Oh and this field will work offline, no network required.

Snowflake Connector

Snowflake’s Data Cloud provides data storage, processing, and analytics solutions that scale impressively.

We’ve added Connectors that will allow you to push and pull data from a Snowflake database or data lake. So if you’re using the Snowflake platform, you can now enjoy smoother data transfer to and from Forms On Fire.

Support For DropBox Business

The Dropbox Connector didn’t support saving files to a Dropbox for Business Team Folder. As a result, folders were created instead of being saved to the Team Folder.

If you’ve upgraded your account to Dropbox for Business, you can automatically push files to the Team Folder with this new connector – which eliminates the need to manually move files over.

Support Multiple Workspaces in PowerBI

You’ll now be able to integrate with datasets that are in multiple PowerBI workspaces, instead of the default “My workspace.”

We hope this makes our PowerBI users’ lives a little easier.

Formula Filter to Restrict DS Rows

We’ve added an option to download a subset of the Data Source rows to a user’s device. This will be useful for cases where a single user needs access to only a small portion of a larger Data Source.

This helps to reduce app sync time and bandwidth, adding to your efficiency.

Improved User Management

We’ve modified the Folder Settings User selection list on the Screens page so that you can now grant users permissions to folders while they’re still in 'Invited' status.

You now have the ability to set up users that will be coming on board before they actually start rather than afterwards.

We’ve also added a toggle to the ‘Active Users’ system Data Source that will display ‘All Users’ when it’s checked.

In this way, you can access ‘Invited’ status users directly from your Forms.

Inject PDFs Into Template Outputs

This new feature makes it possible to merge attachments with Form entries in a PDF output using Data Templates.

This way, you no longer have to upload these files to the server separately. You also don’t have to manually merge the output of your Data Templates, saving you valuable time.

Faster Form Testing

When testing Forms, active Connectors can make the process more time-consuming than it needs to be. For this reason, we’ve added the ability to temporarily disable Connectors on Forms.

This way you can save time while testing – without having to spend your time removing and re-adding Connectors.

You can now also toggle required Fields on and off. This way you don’t have to answer required Fields to test a multi-page Form. Simply toggle them off, test, and turn them on again.

Your future tests will be quicker than ever before!

‘Overwrite Existing’ Option

Forms On Fire used to handle media files with duplicate names by appending an _XX on the end – but what if you want to overwrite the file instead?

We’ve added this option to prevent multiple media images with suffixes attached to them – so you can keep your media files clean and tidy. After this goes live, you’ll be able to set an “Overwrite Existing” property on Media, Sketch, Gallery Media, Attach, and Signature Field Types.

API – Bulk Delete for Tasks

Deleting Tasks one by one can quickly drain your daily API call limit.

That’s why we’ve added an option to delete multiple Tasks with a single API call, leaving the rest open for more useful purposes.

Increase DS Driven Tables Row Limit from 100 to 250 Rows

The default for the Table Field is currently 100, but we now allow a little more flexibility for users by upping the limit to 250!

Web UI Refresh

The Web team has been hard at work on the Web UI Refresh since Dec last year. We’re now rolling out a fresh new look and feel, with a focus on consistency across the web portal.

The following features are also shipping as part of the Uinta cycle: