Technical wizards, we made a major revision to our GraphQL documentation and figured you'd be excited about it!

This revision includes:

• Simplified content and navigation
• Improved UX on mobile devices

• Includes Guides on:

  • Get schema for a form
  • Get documents
  • Update a document
  • Start a workflow
  • Pull and push attachments
  • Lookup a user
  • Export a PDF

• New features

  • Now remembers you’re preferred programming language for the code samples
  • Dark mode!
  • Print and export to pdf ready
    
    Cheers!

Happy Monday to you all! This post is an update on some fixes and enhancements we've made but it also serves as an explanation of how we approach accessibility (and bugs in general) at Kuali.

Noteworthy Fixes

Here are just a few of the recent noteworthy fixes and enhancements that we've recently rolled out in Build:

• Keyboard focus added/fixed on multiple navigational elements
• Error messages are now screen-reader compatible
• Some screen reader messaging (including some button labels) was unclear

We have new stuff we're fixing all the time and a couple of larger enhancements coming soon. 

Our Approach to Accessibility

If you weren't already aware, one of our software development policies is called Zero Bug. This means we try to keep our bug list to zero (or near zero) every week. We aren't always perfect at this but we do a pretty good job.

In terms of accessibility, we actually treat accessibility issues as bugs. Naturally, we try to address them before they become bugs—as part of our typical development process—but occasionally some sneak past us. When they do, we add them to our bug list and apply our Zero Bug policy liberally and with glee.

Report Them Bugs 🐜

So that's a little "inside baseball" for you today. Hopefully that gives you a clearer idea of how we Do Our Thing™ here at Kuali. 

As usual, we encourage you to report any accessibility (or other) bugs. We appreciate the feedback we get from our customers and thank you for helping us make our software better. Cheers! ✌️

Admins can now view which apps are using a specific integration in a form field or a workflow step. An app that has used the integration in the past or is currently using the integration will appear in the list. This will allow them to see which apps are dependent on their integration before they delete them or make any changes.

 

App Admins can now configure automated reminders on an entire workflow or on a specific workflow step. Admins can choose between sending out one email reminder or reminders at regular intervals until the workflow step has been completed*

*Reminders will only be relevant for future submissions once this setting is turned on

*Insert Chefs Kiss here*

You can read more about this new feature here

As an App Admin, you can now set up specific dates for when an app is open for submissions. So go ahead, take it for a spin and schedule away! 

You can read more about this feature here

All system settings can now be found under the same "System Settings" menu item for System Admins. This includes settings for integrations, branding, and permissions.

Branding is a new feature that allows you to configure your own form and email branding for your apps.

Users and Groups are being combined into one People and Groups setting for System Admins. We’ve improved the user interface and added an “Admin” role to every group. 

Major changes to this new setting:
- “Categories” are now “Blueprints.” 
- "Users” are now “People”
- Group administrators will now be able to distribute the administration of their Groups. Each group can have a Group Administrator assigned to it. Group administrators will be able to add users to roles, create child groups and edit the name of their group. 
Empower your group admins to manage their own groups! 

We've added a timestamp gadget as an integration output. The integration timestamp will allow you to output a timestamp on a form - from an integration - in a user-friendly way (Month, Day, Year).

Name change alert: "My Submissions" is now "My Documents".

To read more about the My Documents section, you can read more here

App Admins will now be able to go into an active workflow and reassign a current step (approvals and tasks) to another user in the system, hoorah!*