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v0.8.12 Release Notes
Release Date: August 30, 2024
🚀 New Features & Template Enhancements
- Space Setting: Space homepage announcement now support markdown and preview in the space setting page with multi-language configuration.
- Automation: Triggers for manual execution are now available, providing flexibility for tasks that don't require automatic server execution.
- AI Integration: Added "OpenAI - Generate Text" Automation Action for text generation using AI.
- OpenAI Integration: Enhanced functionality to save Organization ID in the Integration settings.
- Trigger & Action Test: All automation triggers and actions now support a "Test" button to fetch step data structures for downstream actions.
- New Field Type: "Formula" field type is now available.
- Group Management: Group management module now supports group deletion.
- Template Center Search: Upgraded search functionality with similarity matching for easier template discovery.
- Resource Node Context Menu: Enhanced with more functional options.
- Variable Editor: Added help text at the bottom.
✨ UI/UX Improvements
- Field Type Description: Added more friendly descriptions in the dropdown when adding or editing fields in a database.
- Create Mission Action: Optimized configuration interface to support multi-language prompts.
- Authorization Email Domain: Improved text for authorization email domain titles and button labels.
- Message Input Guide: Added guidelines for using markdown and inserting variables in message content text boxes for Twitter, Slack, Telegram, and WeCom Action.
- Select Integration Placeholder: Added placeholder text for selecting existing integrations.
- AI Template Generation UI: Enhanced the UI for AI template generation.
- Resource Panel: Improved width adjustment (560px - 800px) for the right-side resource editing area.
- Modal Submission Loading: Added loading effect when submitting modals.
- Timezone Sorting: In the "Scheduler Trigger" configuration, "timezone" option list will sorts by continent and city.
- Report Sender Optimization: The "Send Report" action now supports inserting variables.
- Intelligent Formula Field: Syntax highlighting in formula expressions.
- Automation Filters & Actions: Optimized the sequence and added help text for the trigger and action configuration interface.
- Admin Role Permissions: Expanded the set of permissions for admin roles.
- Space Usage Stats: Improved display and tracking of usage statistics.
- Error Prompts: Enhanced error prompts for various operations.
- Automation Action Requirements: Added friendly prompts when missing required fields.
- Form Descriptions: Added default descriptions when creating new databases.
- File Descriptions: Long file descriptions now auto-truncate with "…".
- Hover Text: Changed tooltip text color to black.
- Grid Sorting: Grid view now supports sorting, enhancing data management flexibility.
- Template Center: Tweaked search to reduce page refresh frequency.
- Field Descriptions: Provided better explanations when adding fields in databases.
🐞 Fixes
- Field Filter Control: Fixed an issue where filter conditions were not displaying.
- Email Action Matching: Resolved issues with email data matching for the "Send Email" action in automation.
- Multilingual Error: Fixed misrepresentations in the field panel's multilingual text.
- AI Conversations: Addressed style issues and voice problems in multi-round AI conversations.
- Date Cleanup: Corrected issue where modifying record dates would clear other data.
- Record View: Fixed the problem of not being able to select views in the record search.
- Variable Insertion: Resolved issues with inserting variables in the "Find Record" action.
- More Members Button: Fixed an unresponsive "See More" button in the member selector.
- Permission Table crash: Fixed the crash issue when adding a "date" type field.
- Trigger/Action Refresh: Resolved the need to refresh the page to display new triggers or actions.
- Resource Load Times: Improved resource node loading times.
- Empty Filter Conditions: Fixed disappearing filter conditions in view filter control for currency fields.
- Invalid Trigger/Action Deletion: Fixed the issue of invalid trigger or action deletions in the automation resource editor.
- Anonymous Submission: Corrected unauthorized errors preventing anonymous attachment uploads.
- Option Display in Multi-select: Ensured all selected options display in the multi-select configuration page.
- Record IDs: Records now display their first column name instead of just the ID in the record details.
- Field Default Values: Fixed default value display issues in single-select/multi-select fields.
- Record Linking: Resolved problems with linking records that previously required re-open to display.
- Filter Panel Styling: Fixed the styling issue, enhancing UI consistency and aesthetics.
- Cache Errors: Improved system reliability by fixing crashes and currency label display issues.
- Task Creation: Added "Coming Soon" markers to unprovided task types within executors.
🛠️ Refactors
- AI Wizard: Refactored AI Wizard functionality to resolve various bugs (#5815).
- Website Redirection: Optimized website redirection mechanisms.
- Space Setting Info: Refactored for better maintainability.
- Dashboard and Widget Context: Improved dashboard, widget context, and related settings for better maintainability.
🎁 Miscellaneous
- Twitter, Slack, Telegram, WeCom: Added markdown formatting and insert variable guidelines for message content fields.
- Integration Placeholders: Added placeholder text to the selector for existing integrations.
- Execution Configs: Optimized configuration interface for "Create Record" executor.
- Help Center: Added illustrative guides for "Importing Data".
- Excel Export: Supported Excel export for data backup.
- Bika File Resources: Supported Bika File Resources export for easier app backup.
- Template Fixes: Corrected various template issues including mandatory field input and automatic enumeration fields.

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