Blue Lakes Release

The Blue Lakes are located in an extremely scenic glacial basin within the 16,566-acre Mt. Sneffels Wilderness area of the Uncompahgre National Forest. The drive to the trailhead is quite spectacular, and offers outstanding panoramic views of Mt. Sneffels and the Dallas Creek drainage area. It's especially spectacular in the fall when the aspens turn to yellow and gold.

Dynamic Choices in Forms (Going Live Soon)

Currently, you can populate a Choices field using a static list of options or with rows from a Data Source. 

With this new feature, you’ll be able to generate Choice field options directly from other fields and data in your form. The same will be true for a Table field. You will be able to auto-load rows in the Table from another Field in your form.

For example, you have a form with a REST field that calls out to a web service. The service returns a JSON response containing a list of unique ticket numbers and titles. This new feature will enable your form to auto-load that ticket data into a Choices field, allowing the user to pick a specific ticket to work on.

Another example would be a form that asks the user questions and then dynamically populates a Choices field with a list of their earlier answers.

We think this feature will prove super powerful!

Better Generic PDFs (Live)

We will be the first to admit that our Generic PDF template is pretty bland. Let’s face it – there’s a lot of grey backgrounds and has a very simple, horizontal layout. It’s time that we improve this area to let you generate better looking PDF outputs aside from our fully custom Word/Excel template approach.

We’ve now added new options for generic PDF outputs: “App Layout” and “Smart Layout”.

• App Layout will produce PDFs that are modeled after your form design and appearance to users on the app. If a field has a blue background and is horizontally laid out, then it will appear this way in your PDF.

• PDFs generated using the Smart Layout option will initially be similar to the App Layout in nature, however we plan to evolve this over time to provide a more print-friendly layout. This will include some fuzzy logic to auto-size and stack images to display better, as well as much better page breaking and handling of tabular data. Effectively this option is aimed at giving you a more professional looking layout that is tailored to the answer data received from each form entry.

Faster Form Testing (Live)

With V6 taking up a significant chunk of time last cycle, this feature was pushed from our Uinta release to now Blue Lakes. With this feature, you are able to turn off required fields in your form when in test mode. We expect this will make testing of your designs faster and simpler, thus accelerating your ability to get new and changed forms into production.

“Switch Context” User Permission (Live)

This feature is geared toward our Enterprise Toolkit users. In the past, Read-Only or Write-Only users couldn’t switch between Environments. You can now assign a new permission to such users allowing them to do so. 

If a user needs to download data entries from multiple environments – but not be able to edit things – this feature saves time. Instead of logging into each individual environment, the user can now simply switch contexts and get the information they need. 

API – Last Device Activity (Live)

We’ve added a “Last Activity” date property to the User API. This will expand the information you can get from the API, which currently only includes hardware, OS, and app version. 

Better Security

Due to the prevalence of password reuse all over the world, hackers have been able to find quicker and easier methods to breach corporate, not just personal accounts. For added security, the platform now prevents password reuse.