New and Improved Features

New Features

• Form Versioning with roll back support

• Android - Web View support

• Form Import and Export

• Mobile List Builder

• Mobile - Picture Annotations
• Mobile - On-device PDF report generation and sending
• Mobile - Geo Tagging

• Mobile - App-level usage statistics

New Controls

• Video Control

• Signature Capture Control

• Image Control

• QR Code Control

• Segmented Control

Improved Features

• Introduce Sub label for repeater section to reflect in reports and details screen

• Change in Data Saving/Notification Processing to be Asynchronous

• On Demand Load of System Data Sources like Employee, Users and Locations

Technical Enhancements 

• Port ReST services to micro services

• New persistence structure for forms data

• Mobile - App-level usage statistics

• Mobile - Incremental data updates

Facelift Changes

• Apply New UI Styles Changes for App. Builder Screens
• Change the App Builder Home page card design to introduce buttons to navigate to List/Modify
• User would like to have an additional view of App Builder home page to see forms as List view
• Move "Actions" and "Share" sections under form properties to "Configurations" screen
• Move Form Access from form properties to Control Properties Section
• Introduce Preview button in Access/Actions and also make style changes
• Consistency in Naming Convention for "Related Documents" control
• Mobile - Introduce Mobile landing page for ease of navigation to modules/apps
• Mobile - Changes in design for controls - Attachments/Repeater/ Related Links and Action items
• Mobile - New UI Styles for App Builder Screens
• Mobile - Show Form/App Icon in Home Page

Known Issues

• Restrict adding an action item twice in a section
• If a field label is updated, it is not reflecting in "Notification templates" and "Report Builder template" 
• Enhanced the Export PDF formatting issues related to Action Item/Related Documents
• Enhanced the formatting issues related to Excel Export - Related Links Inside a repeater
• Fixed all the downstream impacts related to deleting a section / Repeater section

Form versioning with roll back support

Existing System: 

• Has basic form versioning support. 

Purpose: To support dynamic form definition update with data security. 

Enhanced System:

• Introduced a toggle to Turn on/off form versioning - By default it would be off. 
• Once the form version toggle is on - user cannot turn it off. 
• For the apps where form version is turned on, he would see any additional option "Show Earlier Version Controls".
• Show Earlier Version Controls - This option would help user to see old data associated with previous version controls. 
• Handled all the down stream impacts to Actions, Access, Notifications, Reports, List Screen and field dependencies. 

Impacts: 

• All apps currently in production would default to - "Version 1". 
• All apps will have the versioning toggle as "Off". User can turn on versioning for the necessary apps. 

Form Properties:

Version list with "Roll back" option: 

After Roll back:

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Android Web View Support

Existing System: 

• Has no Andriod support. 

Purpose: To support apps on Android platform. 

Enhanced System:

• User would be able to view all the apps on the android app home page. 
• On clicking an app, user would navigate app List screen in Web View.
• User would be able to open an existing record or create a new record from the list. 
• On landing to details screen, user would be able to modify/add the data.

Impacts: None

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Form Import and Export

Existing System: 

• Currently, form import and export is done from backend. 

Purpose: To reduce the support by providing an UI. 

Enhanced System:

• User would be able to export an existing app.
• The app would get downloaded as a file with extension ".json".
• This file can be imported to any other site which is in the same product version. 
• On import, form definition(not form data) would get imported.
• As a best practice, its good to have the below validations post import 
  1. Data sources - Custom and System. 
  2. Form Sharing. 
  3. Actions.
  4. Access. 
  5. Controls with related apps. 
  6. Notifications Recipients.
• This option to Import/Export form definitions would be available only to process map administrator. 

Impacts: None

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Mobile List Builder

Existing System: 

• Currently, the first four fields configured in the web are displayed in mobile. 

Purpose: To provide flexibility to configure mobile list. 

Enhanced System:

• User would be able to configure mobile list view with ability to set filter and sort criteria
• There is a configuration available to allow user to select the number of columns to be displayed in mobile. 
• By default the number of columns is 4. User would be able to select maximum of 10 columns to be displayed on list. 

Impacts: None

Form Properties: 

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Picture Annotations

Existing System: 

• Currently, we don't have support to annotate pictures. 

Purpose: To improve the usability. 

Enhanced System:

• Once user attaches the picture, he would be able to edit it on mobile device.
• In edit mode, user would be able to annotate on the picture and add text as well. 
• Post attaching the image, he can also add additional notes about the image. 

Impacts: None

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On-device PDF report generation and sending

Existing System: 

• Currently, we have this feature available only on web. 

Purpose: To improve the usability in mobile. 

Enhanced System:

• User would be able to .

Impacts: None

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