What’s New in Skuid?¶

Updates as of 11.2.7¶

With v11.2.0, Skuid has adjusted some of the files used by the File Upload component, with some additional corrections made in v11.2.7.

If your org is on a prior release of Millau Update 2 (v11.2.x), you’ll need to:

1. Upgrade to v11.2.7. (or later)
2. Reclone the UploadImage Visualforce page.

This is especially important for any users with Force.com sites, portals, and similar deployments. Uploading files on these pages will not work properly until you have updated the UploadImage page.

If you are on a prior release of Millau Update 2 (v11.2.x) and cannot currently upgrade to 11.2.7, you’ll need to reclone the page and update the Visualforce markup manually.

Update this markup:

<script src="{!$Resource.skuid__JqueryJS}"></script>

To match this markup:

<script src="{!$Resource.skuid__VendorJS}"></script>

Millau Update 2 - Update Release¶

We’re always looking for better ways to help our customers efficiently and elegantly create exceptional user experiences. This drives our product roadmap and informs our desire to constantly update and iterate. Here’s what we’ve been up to lately.

Big Announcement¶

Skuid Millau Update 2 brings powerful enhancements to Skuid’s ability to extend Salesforce. Skuid already works like a “super component” when using the Skuid Page Lightning component or Skuid Page Assignments Lightning component, replacing the need to write code for a custom Lightning component with a declaratively-built Skuid page. Millau expands Skuid’s presence within Salesforce Lightning by enhancing functionality, increasing inter-component communication, improving performance, and bolstering Skuid’s feature set.

Skuid pages can now seamlessly communicate with standard Lightning components—sending out and responding to events that update your Salesforce data. Update an account in your Lightning component? Any Skuid Page components on the same page will automatically requery their Account model to match that new data.

All you have to do is enable a new model property; no need to write a custom Lightning component or configure an event listener. No more programmatic fixes or manual page refreshes required!

New Product Features—Skuid¶

• Need to activate some component-specific actions? Look no further than Run Component Action! Using this new action, you can navigate the steps of your Wizard components and change the edit mode of your Table and Field Editor components from anywhere the Action Framework is accessible. Use this to create intuitive experiences that respond to your users’ needs from Button Sets, model actions, and so on.

• Re-use the output of model-related action types, like Create New Row(s) and Query Model, within an Action Sequence or a set of actions. Assign a label to the output of an action and use the label to recall the output within a subsequent action. The named output acts like temporary storage for data within an Action Sequence or series of actions.

• Additional data source actions are now available to manage the Salesforce Approval process, including the ability to approve, recall, or reject approval requests, or unlock records that have been submitted for approval.

• It’s now possible to cache Salesforce metadata in Skuid. Pages that utilize lots of models, with large picklists, and many fields will now load much faster because Skuid won’t need to fetch all of that data on each page load.

  Note

  These performance gains are only available when deploying within Visualforce or accessing Salesforce data from Skuid Platform. They are currently not available in Lightning Experience.

New Product Features—Skuid Platform¶

• Administrators now have the option to choose the session timeout limit for their sites.

Minor Updates¶

• Want users to remain in Offline Mode until revisions have finished syncing, even when they regain a connection? Now you can. Select Display Unsynced Changes Status Bar in the Offline Mode settings. Skuid stays offline, and all changes made (both on and offline) are stored until the user selects Sync from the status bar.

• Add interactions, like click, swipe, or press, to the Wrapper component itself, not just the components inside the Wrapper.

• Assign unique Ids and/or CSS classes to items within the Navigation component, making them easier to style and toggle-able at the same time!

• You can now edit any model fields used in template fields within either Field Editors and Tables by double-clicking them, which opens a popup prompting the user for input.

• Turn on or off the loading indicator for a page displayed by the Page Include component in the advanced properties of the Page Include component.

• The Table Export automatically includes the Name field for reference fields when exporting Table data. Previously, the output of a reference field included the ID without the Name field. With the Name and ID field exported on each reference field, the output from a Table is easier to interact with when used in a spreadsheet.

• We’ve published a new CLI release that allows you to pull specific Skuid pages within Skuid on Salesforce as opposed to downloading all of the pages within a Salesforce org or page module. Get only the pages you need.

• Use DynamoDB? How about secondary indexes? Now you can query against them in Skuid! Secondary indexes allow for querying table data using something besides its primary key, and they can even be customized to return less data, which means faster queries for your pages and a lower cost on your AWS bill.

• We’ve upgraded our Ace code editor, which is used wherever code is entered into the Skuid App Composer, to the 1.33 release.

• The Search component already supports a limit to the number of records returned in the search dropdown list, but a new property, Result Limit, allows a record limit on each returned object for the results displayed in a search popup.

• The Skuid theme that is based on the Lightning Design System now includes the most recent updates to Lightning’s markup and style. Skuid’s updated Lightning Design theme creates a consistent look-and-feel across your Lightning and Skuid components in Lightning Experience.

  For more information about the Lightning Design System, check out the latest Salesforce release notes.

• We’ve refreshed the look of our settings page within Skuid on Salesforce. Primary navigation areas are now placed on a left-side tab bar for a cleaner visual experience and parity with the Skuid Platform settings page.

  No worries; you’ll still find your settings where you expect and our docs still reflect where to find all the properties you need.

Heads Up!¶