184 - New Beginnings

Hi there, eMagiz developers! We have been hard at work bolstering our offering concerning the upcoming rollout of our new architecture stack. Next to that big development, we have finished our work on the Flow Designer which is the major part of this release. Please take a moment to read the below carefully and work with the new flow designer as soon as possible to familiarize yourself with this one.

Flow Designer V3

The new Flow Designer used in Create is released! This is a significant improvement in our iPaaS Portal that implements feedback of our users and helps to improve the overall experience. After several iterations of internal validations and testing sessions with end-users, we are releasing this feature to all users. Below are some key notes that are important to know and to consider.
  

Improvements

The new Flow Designer implements an approach whereby components can be dragged into the canvas without any configuration setting changed. The right hand panel contains a new section called Alerts that helps users to remove all alerts from the flow created. Such as missing configurations, channels or mismatches. All of these alerts need to be resolved so that a valid flow can be pushed to Deploy.

Furthermore, there is now a right hand panel to brings a few configuration more forward for users. In that panel you will find the following 4 tabs as described below. Furthermore, you can collapse the right hand panel to have more space to view/edit your flow.
 

  

• Alerts
  In this section, all alerts are displayed organized by component. Alert text should be clear to understand the issue and the component can be opened from that same location.

• Resources
  In this section, all resources are displayed used by the flow. Resources can be added and deleted from this section, as well as download and viewed. Generated resources such as transformations and definition are also vieweable from here. Use the option Show generated resources to explore these.
    
• Support objects
  The support objects are no longer stored on the canvas, but displayed as a list in this tab. The interaction to add new support objects is also moved to this tab. Support objects can be edited from this tab as well. Please note that the interaction with the main canvas remains - selecting a support object will highlight the components in the canvas to illustrate where that support object is used.

• Properties
  The properties tab is also visible now and has been improved so that the values in Deploy can also be viewed. All values of all environments can be viewed - container level properties replicated are condensed into a single entry.
    

User interaction changes

There are some small changes to consider compared to the old flow designer. Please take a moment to read these:
  

• Multiple select. This option is still available, but you have to click the shift button while drawing the rectangle that holds the objects to select
• Live preview. When moving components around, a live preview of the flow is displayed so that alignment becomes easier

Feedback items 

We have also solved other feedback items besides the key updates around functionality.

Set runtime field as first selected field on property level
With this change, the runtime is the first field selected when copying a property. This way it is easier to select another runtime and propagate that property to that runtime as well.

Fancy Forum Answers

As always, a gentle reminder to all to ask questions via the Q&A forum. The Q&A forum is available in the eMagiz iPaaS portal, so we can all benefit from the knowledge within the community. For some inspiration, take a look at these forum answers:

• Excel Attachment in Mail to File
• Importing datapipeline store component Mendix to AWS Redshift failed

Key takeaways

Thanks to all that help build, those who tested and gave feedback to improve the product. To end this post, here are some key takeaways for you:

• If you have questions surrounding our Program Increment Planning, please get in touch with productmanagement@emagiz.com
• If you have feedback or ideas for us, talk to the Platypus
• Please inform us of new additions to the store (productmanagement@emagiz.com) so we can all benefit from these. 
• Clear your browser cache (Ctrl + Shift + Del)
• Check out the release notes here
• Start thinking about how the license tracker can aid your development
• Start thinking about major, minor, and patch
• Upgrade to the latest build number
• Keep making great integrations
• Check out the new documentation portal.

Let's stay in touch and till next time!