Falcon Space

Key updates inOctober 2021

Important innovations introduced this month. All updates in one list


Links to videos on the topic have been introduced into the Falcon documentation

Improvement

If the documentation page has a video, it will be displayed on the page as a link, as well as in the general list of documentation.

Forms. Showing the form in a drop-down window next to the (dropdown) button

New opportunity

Demo stand - https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/pokaz-nebolshoy-formy-v-vypadayushchem-okne---107
Documentation - https://falconspace.site/docs/zagruzka-formy-v-vypadayushchem-okne--dropdown

Демостенд Watch. A watermark is added to an image when uploading a file

Improvement

https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/ispolzovanie-vodnykh-znakov---95

Uploading a document to Excel - added the ability to process multiple sheets in an Excel file template

New opportunity

Previously, only the first sheet was processed. As a result, a file is formed with the number of sheets that are specified in the Excel template.

Демостенд Watch. Output of a table with a form detailing elements and drag n drop opening of the form

New opportunity

The form on the right opens either by clicking on the links in the table, or by dragging the link to the container
https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/tablica-s-pokazom-detaley-strok-sprava-v-forme---105

Form hints. You can additionally specify any hint text (other than the name of the hint)

Improvement

https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/prmery-zapolneniya-polya---35

Tables. The ability to pin the left column (SELECT 3 - frozenLeftCol) has been implemented

New opportunity

You can watch it on the demo stand https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/fiksirovanny-pervy-stolbec-tablicy-pri-gorizontalnom-skrollinge-shirokoy-tablicy---103

Tables. An error in exporting a table to Excel has been fixed

Bug fix

The error occurred when filling in the text BeforeTableText and After Table Text.

Table. Editing fields. New types have been added (HTML5): password, email, url, tel, number, range, time

New opportunity

You can watch the demo at the Watch stand - https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/redaktirovanie-poley-html5-tablicy---40

Демостенд Watch. Updating part of the page by event from the server

New opportunity

Receiving data from the server to the client side on the initiative of the server.
https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/poluchenie-dannykh-s-servera-na-klientskuyu-chast-po-iniciative-s-servera---92

Демостенд Watch. Diagram output by day from table data

New opportunity

Another example of the output mode for the custom table. We get data from the database through the Table component, and then use a third-party library for visualization on the page
https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/vyvod-diagrammy-po-dnyam-iz-dannykh-tablicy---91

Демостенд Watch. Data output from the database using a third-party component (graph).

New opportunity

This approach allows you to use third-party JS components that are not in the platform to manipulate the data issued from the platform database.

https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/primer-kastomnogo-vyvoda--dannykh-tablicy-v-vide--grafika---90

The core has been optimized to speed up page loading in the Core version of the platform

Bug fix

As a result of load tests, a significant slowdown was found on the Core version of the platform. Fixed this moment. As a result, with a test duration of 1 min at 30 requests per second (a total of 1800 requests per minute), the response time became 369ms.

External actions for importing Excel files have been added

Improvement

Description in the documentation for external actions - https://falcon.web-automation.ru/docs/vneshnie-deystviya (io.export, io.import)

Демостенд Watch. Processing youtube links on the form

New opportunity

The form accepts a YouTube link in the format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXX or https://youtu.be/XXX and visualizes the video in an iframe directly in the form
https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/obrabotka-youtube-ssylki-na-forme---88

Videos on the key features of the system will gradually appear in the platform documentation

Improvement

https://falconspace.site/docs/falcon-space--rabota-s-formami

Protection from bots. Settings for blocking frequent requests

New opportunity

https://falconspace.site/docs/zashchita-ot-botov--nastroyki-blokirovki-chastykh-zaprosov

Displaying the No network status when the connection is disconnected

New opportunity

When the Internet disappears, a message about it appears at the bottom (when the Internet appears, the message disappears)
Documentation - https://falconspace.site/docs/otobrazhenie-soobshcheniya-ob-offline-net-seti

Демостенд Watch. Demo on getting the exchange rate from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

New opportunity

https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/poluchenie-valyut-ot-bank-rossii-api--cbr-api---87

Демостенд Watch. Integration with the Gismeteo API

New opportunity

https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/integraciya-s-gismeteo-api--poluchenie-prognoza-pogody---86
Enter the city and get the weather with Gismeteo

Customization of the top strip of the site (CustomHeader)

New opportunity

https://falconspace.site/docs/kak-sdelat-polnuyu-kastomizaciyu-verkhney-poloski-sayta--customheader

You can specify your layout for the top panel of the site.

Tables. Handling of column width setting for long links has been improved

Improvement

Previously, long continuous rows (for example, links) expanded the column, now they are visually cut off when setting the column width (this does not affect the table data).

Демостенд Watch. An example of random text generation via an external service API is implemented

New opportunity

https://demo.web-automation.ru/list/watch/generaciya-sluchaynogo-teksta-po-api-cherez-servis-fish-text---84

The ability to make custom markup in Login

New opportunity

The layout of the workspace can be any, {login Form} is inserted into it to insert the login form.
A setting has also been implemented to close access to the /account/login page

What to look for when upgrading

September 2021

  • Added size int column to as_rs_resources. Updated procedure as_resources_addResource (to handle size)

August 2021

  • Changing chat procedures to universal
  • Form - type change in dict procedures from Dictionaryparameter to ExtendedDictionaryParameter (when using select-search)
  • List GetItem - type change for parameters procedures from Dictionaryparameter to ExtendedDictionaryParameter
  • Forms. CheckField - form initialization with CheckField triggering to show / hide fields (also intersection with dependment cols)
  • Resource manager. Resources must have str_processUrl function (to process filenames before saving)
  • Operation of switches (switch). They were added to the subload

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