What's new in VIKTOR (May 2023)

New and improved workers page

For this update, we have been working on a fresh and new overview on the workers page. This means that we removed any redundant information and added a section that displays the status of your workers. Most importantly, admins can now delete old and unused workers to keep a clean and up-to-date overview.

Note: removing a worker from the table will cause it to not accept new calculations. Please take this into consideration when removing workers that are still necessary for an application.

User interface updates

When using your apps, you may notice several changes to the user interface as we have been working on several revisions, such as a new design for the login page, a more intuitive modal when creating entities, and a redesign of the save button.

Creating entities

To avoid any confusion when creating entities, we have simplified the create modal to show one option by default, instead of multiple. Alternative options can be selected through the dropdown, where you can also find an additional explanation.

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New save button

During user testing, we discovered users sometimes had trouble finding the save button. That is why we worked on a new design to make it stand out more from the rest of the icons in your app's menu. As you can see from the images, we gave it a little makeover so it can't be missed.

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BRO app & Python package

We have been working on the development of a public application and open-source Python package using data from the Dutch Bureau Underground Registration (BRO). The application has an interactive map view that you can use to directly retrieve and interpret Dutch CPT data via the BRO REST API using the Robertson Method. Using the open-source Python package, you can also easily integrate this data into your own applications!

Try the application now or check out the Python package.

Community spotlight

Starting this edition, we are introducing a new section to the newsletter: the community spotlight! In this section, we highlight developments by VIKTOR developers that we want to share with the rest of the community.

To kick off, we are starting with an application by Prof. Wassim Jabi, who is an expert in computational design and used VIKTOR to create two applications that integrate with his own open-source Python package for spatial modeling and analysis in AEC, called TopologicPy.

One of Wassim's apps is the Shadow Calculator, which can be used to compute the shadows falling on a face from a set of surrounding buildings. Interested? Make sure to try it out and visit the Apps Gallery for more applications by Wassim and other community members.

Try the application now!

Like to share your application with the rest of the community as well? Please let us know by sending an email to support@viktor.ai!

Other changes

PLATFORM

• Adjusted the invalid token error message while resetting password to be more clear
• Switch to other table provider
• Fixed the editor status badge border color not following the theme
• Fixed slow jobs sometimes hanging in the editor when receiving a new parametrization
• Fixed the 2D view toolbar to float over view content instead of pushing it down
• Changed feedback when a user has limited access rights on an entity to be more descriptive

CLI

• CLI v0.29.7 is now available
• Select the currently active account by default instead of the default account when running configure without --name flag
• Exclude false positive curl error from system check
• Fixed demo app crashes due to removed UserException in SDK v14