We're spreading a little love today on Valentine's Day with two new updates to Kuali Build:

Link Gadget

Form submitters can now share a link on a form. Simply drag and drop the Link gadget onto you form to make that available. More information found here. 

Headless Integrations

When using the Data Lookup (Single Item) gadget on your form, you now have the ability to hide the integration gadget on your form while still making other auto-filled gadgets visible. More information found here.

Kuali Build now saves links to your documents behind the scenes in the system metadata.

Not technical and wondering what all this gobbledygook means for you? You can now use the Link to Document variable in a Notification step or on your form to allow a user to easily link to the document. See this guide for more information on metadata that Kuali Build captures

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!