Hooray! You can now duplicate a form gadget and all of its settings in Kuali Build. 

Read more about the update here.

Happy New Year folks! And with this comes a new set of UI clothes for Build. We've needed a better list/table design throughout Build for a long time. 

**Clarification: When we're talking about list/table design here, we're not talking about our spiffy new Table Gadget. We're talking about other areas in the system that show lists or tables. For example, the Document List, Submissions, Action List, History, etc.

While we were at it, we updated some elements that will make your apps easier to use. Here are the things we're updating today:

• New list/table design with better contrast and a higher data density (see Clarification note above)
• New "canvas" design with a simpler tabbed interface that allows you to navigate among different areas in your app
• New easier-to-use date picker
• New permissions page with clearer buttons and fields

If you're a technical user and want some inside baseball, just know that we've removed all traces of Google's Material UI which had some usability issues. Usability issues make us sad. Today, we're happier.

Enjoy!

Here's to a brighter, more contrast-y 2022!

You have been asking, and we have listened! Our snazzy new documentation of Kuali's GraphQL will help your developers as they build more and more integrations. You can check it out here. You're welcome.

P.S. We even gave you a few common examples of things are customers are doing with GraphQL, so make sure to take a look.

Today we've rolled out a new feature to help move workflows along faster. If a workflow is stuck because you're waiting on someone, you can now click a button in the workflow status to resend the notification to them like this:

When clicked, it will re-send a notification to everyone in that step.

It's a small thing but will give Build administrators even more control over their workflows. Here's the documentation.

We hope you enjoy this enhancement, just in time for the holiday season. I feel a little like Santa, even if I look more like Krampus.🎄

Do you ever feel like you'd like a little more control in your life? Yeah, same here. Well although we can’t do anything to help your personal life, we've got two features to give you a little more control in Build.

API Integration Access Control 

We’ve rolled out a new feature that will enable you to control which Build Apps can use a particular integration. For those of you who get heavy use from integrations, this should be a welcome addition. You can read the documentation here.

Data Sharing Between Build Apps

We've also added the ability to share data between Build Apps. This comes in handy if you want to be able to use one app as a database for other apps. For example, let's say you want to maintain a collection of characteristics of various muskrat breeds (hey, I don't know your specific needs). You could store those breeds in one app and then reference them in your myriad of other rodent-related apps. We think this is pretty neat. We are confident that our innovative customers will find all kinds of super uses for this one. You can read the documentation here.

One More Thing - Form Title Field

This small feature is an integral part of the App Data Sharing but it bears mentioning anyway. You can now set any of your fields as the "Title" field for your documents. This makes it nice if you want to specify a nice readable field as the ID. You can read the documentation here.

We hope you find these new features helpful. Have a great week!

It's here! It's here! The table gadget is finally here! Now users can visually group data into labeled columns and rows by dragging and dropping all their favorite Build gadgets—including data look up gadgets—right into the table. 

Apply conditional visibility to entire sections of the table based on previous answers. You can also export the table gadget data to both PDF and CSV files.

Today, when integrations are executed in Build - likely on form submission - we pass along Kuali specific headers (x-kuali-user-ssoid, x-kuali-user-id, and x-kuali-user-name as examples).

On Monday, October 4th, we will remove the x-kuali-user-name from the headers sent when an integration is executed. The x-kuali-user-name pulls from displayName in Kuali Build and is being removed as a header passed into integrations because it is a data point that can be changed (such as changing from katie.gaston to katherine.gaston) and is therefore not static. Unforeseen changes in this data point could potentially cause integration errors.

This change will only impact integrations that are explicitly relying on the x-kuali-user-name being present when an integration is run.  We recommend system administrators review integrations in advance of this change to prevent from any potential system disruptions.

We've recently updated the platform to limit access to users and groups for system administrators only. This update is being made to further our commitment to providing a secure and scalable platform.  In the future, system administrators will have full access to the users and groups module and can convert system users to system administrators in order to provide them access on a case-by-case basis.

If you have any questions about this release, feel free to comment here or email us at build@kuali.co.  Happy building!

Form and workflow designers now have increased flexibility in developing conditional visibility logic and custom workflow branching. 

Previously, designers could only manage advanced form and workflow logic of *Boolean data if the field type either was empty or was not empty. 

Now designers will be able to build advanced conditional logic and workflow branching conditions based upon whether Boolean data tokens added into a document via a Smart Gadget integration are either true or false.  

This new functionality will now enable designers to not just confirm if integrated Boolean fields have the presence of data (i.e. 'not empty') but will also confirm the true/false status of that data.

If you have any questions on this new improvement, don't hesitate to email us at build@kuali.co or comment here!

*Boolean field types are only available through Smart Gadget integrations and do not exist as independent gadgets in the form designer.

Our newest Kuali Build feature enables users to quickly search for Build apps in their dashboard.

Users can now use the search bar, located in the top right corner under notifications, to search for text in any app titles they currently have access to.  Search is case-insensitive and does partial word matches

For more information about this new addition, check out this help article, and feel free to comment here with any feedback or questions!