Budibase Enterprise now empowers you to transform your web applications into Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). This release introduces the capability to generate installable progressive web applications directly from Budibase. Enterprise users can now add a custom application icon within the Budibase platform, enabling users to add a dedicated shortcut to their mobile device home screens for instant access, bypassing the need to navigate through a browser.

This enhancement provides a more streamlined and native-like experience for accessing critical internal tools on mobile devices. By placing the application icon directly on their screen, users benefit from quicker access and improved engagement with their Budibase applications. This feature delivers enhanced convenience and efficiency for your enterprise users on the go.

This initial release focuses on enabling the installable PWA functionality and custom icon support. If demand exists, future updates may explore the inclusion of offline capabilities and mobile notifications to further enhance the mobile app experience. We encourage enterprise users to explore this new feature and provide feedback as we evolve Budibase.

We're excited to announce a highly requested feature designed to accelerate your workflows: Dynamic PDF Generation is now available to customers on the Premium and Enterprise plans! Empower your teams to automatically generate customized PDFs directly within your company workflows.

Key benefits include:

• Workflow Automation: Seamlessly integrate PDF generation into your existing Budibase applications to automate document-heavy processes.
• Data-Driven Documents: Generate PDFs populated with real-time data from your Budibase databases and connected sources.
• Customization and Control: Design PDF templates tailored to your requirements, ensuring consistent and professional output.
• Faster Operations: Reduce the time spent on manual document creation, leading to quicker turnaround times and improved efficiency across the organization.

As always, please share your feedback within our community channels.

We're thrilled to announce a significant improvement to the automation experience in Budibase with the release of our latest feature: Enhanced Automation Insights!

Building powerful automations for your internal tools just got even easier and more transparent. We understand that debugging and understanding the flow of data within your automations is crucial for efficiency. That's why we've introduced a new way to visualize your automation data.

What's New?

With Enhanced Automation Insights, you can now see, at a glance, exactly what data is available at each step of your automation and what data each step outputs. This means:

• Effortless Debugging: No more guessing or relying on extensive testing to understand data flow. Quickly identify where issues occur by inspecting the data at each stage.
• Improved Building Experience: Understand the data context as you build your automations, making it easier to connect steps and manipulate data effectively.
• Increased Confidence: Build and deploy automations with greater confidence, knowing you have clear visibility into the data being processed.

This enhancement streamlines the entire automation lifecycle, from initial creation to troubleshooting and maintenance. We believe this will significantly improve the productivity and overall experience for all Budibase users leveraging automations.

Head over to your Budibase instance and start building or editing your automations today! We're confident that this new feature will empower you to create even more robust and efficient internal tools. As always, we value your feedback. Let us know what you think of the new Automation Insights in our community forums!

We're excited to announce a significant security upgrade for Budibase users: you can now seamlessly integrate OAuth 2.0 for secure user authentication flows. This powerful feature is available to everyone.

What's New?

• OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Support: Budibase now supports the OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant type, enabling robust and secure authentication for your applications.
• Enhanced Security: Implement industry-standard authentication protocols to protect sensitive data and applications.
• Streamlined Integration: Easily connect Budibase with your existing OAuth 2.0-compliant identity providers.

How to Get Started:
You can configure OAuth 2.0 authentication within your Budibase application settings. To establish a secure connection, provide your client credentials and endpoint details.

After adding your OAuth 2.0 configuration details, add the authentification method to your API via the REST interface.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and support. Happy building!

Budibase Enterprise now supports injecting custom scripts directly into your applications. This feature enables advanced customization and integration with third-party libraries and services.

Often, you want to inject JavaScript snippets into all pages of your site, either in the head or at the end of the body tag. Most analytics providers, font services, and A/B testing services will give you an HTML snippet and ask you to add it to every page on your site. Budibase now lets you do this from the app settings interface.

Technical Details:

• Configuration is managed within the application settings, allowing for granular control.
• Refer to the documentation for implementation details: https://docs.budibase.com/docs/app-scripts
• See the pull request for implementation details: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/pull/15762

Budibase apps now look much better by default. At the end of Cycle 1, we changed the platform to enable users to create better-looking apps faster. In our pursuit, we made the following changes...

A better starting point:
New apps launch with pre-populated sample data and a pre-built inventory screen with a whole CRUD experience! The table comes preloaded with conditions (red row highlights) and formatting (currency symbols) to showcase powerful features instantly.

Unified Text Component:
Goodbye headline and paragraph; hello versatile "text" component! Enjoy markdown support and a dynamic text input that grows with your content (up to 5 rows).

Revamped Navigation:
The default nav bar now sports a blue background with crisp white text. Navigation links have been refined with improved styling. The old "portal" link has been replaced with a user avatar and dropdown menu, offering quick access to profile updates, password changes, portal access, and logout.

Table Style Refinements:

• Table whitespace has been optimized for a cleaner look.
• The header font is now bold for improved readability.
• Row number colors have reduced contrast for a softer appearance.
• The "quiet" table setting now features a more opinionated style, including no header icons and subtle header background contrast.
• The table header background and striped row colors are now customizable.
• Checkboxes are now hidden when they serve no purpose.

Expanded Color Palette:
The color picker has been updated with new static color options, ensuring consistent colors regardless of the app theme. This is used for the new nav background.

We're thrilled to announce Budibase now supports SQL attachments! This feature empowers you to build even more robust and versatile internal tools directly within Budibase.

How to Get Started:
Add an attachment column to your SQL database table within Budibase to enable attachments. It's that easy!

As always, we appreciate your feedback and support. Happy building!

The Budibase Team.

Tired of guessing where things went wrong in your Budibase app? Say hello to a streamlined, intuitive way to tackle errors: the new Budibase Error Popover!

We've completely revamped how you find and fix issues, giving you a powerful new tool to boost your development workflow. No more cryptic messages, the Budibase Error Popover puts all the information you need at your fingertips.

Here's what you can expect:

• Centralized Error Hub: A dedicated space within Budibase's design section where errors relating to the specific screen are aggregated and displayed.
• Clear and Concise Error Messages: We've translated technical jargon into plain English so you can quickly understand the root cause of each issue.
• Links: Each error links to the component and setting, allowing you to pinpoint the problem area in seconds.

Stop wrestling with bugs and start building with confidence. The Budibase Error Popover empowers you to:

• Debug More Efficiently: Spend less time tracking down errors and more time building amazing features.
• Improve App Quality: Identify and resolve issues quickly, leading to a more stable and reliable application.

In addition to the new Error Console, we've added preemptive measures across the builder to inform you of the effects of a dangerous deletion. For example, if you delete a data source, we will list the affected screens.

It is common to use state when building Budibase apps. Sometimes, a screen can have multiple instances of state. The new state panel makes it quick and easy to see what state has been set on a specific screen and where it's being used.

Key features:

Viewing state: You can see all the state variables defined within your screen.

Testing state: Before the introduction of the state panel, to test your state, you would have to open the app preview and then activate it. The new test input allows you to test state and see the result within the design preview without opening the app preview.

Linked components: Understand what components are setting state and what components are using it. Referenced components are linked to make them easier to locate. When clicked, the specific setting will be highlighted within the component settings panel.

The new Bindings panel serves as a window to view the data available to your screen or tied to your component, essentially providing a central location to inspect and understand how data is flowing through your app.

Key features:

Viewing bindings: You can see all the bindings defined within your screen, including their current values which is helpful for debugging and understanding data flow.

Accessing component data: The panel displays information about each component in your app, letting you check their current state and values.

Debugging tool: By using the Bindings panel, creators can quickly identify issues with data consistency or unexpected changes in their application.