What's new in VIKTOR (June 2023)

Improved UX for tree-type apps

With the ChildEntityManager you can make it a lot easier for end-users to navigate through tree-type apps!

Implement the ChildEntityManager in the parametrization to access and create child entities directly from the corresponding editor. You can use this feature by upgrading to the latest SDK release (v14.2.0).

For more information, please visit the documentation.

Regional hosting

We have added new regions to store your VIKTOR project data!

Previously, VIKTOR project data was always stored in the European Union. Due to legal requirements, this made it impossible to use VIKTOR on some projects. From now on, you can also run your complete VIKTOR enviornment in one of the other regions.

We also support a multi-regional setup. For convenience, data that is unrelated to projects is automatically synchronized, keeping it simple for users.

You can check the availability of a region in the documentation.

Community spotlight

In this second edition of the community spotlight, we want to highlight this awesome development by Johannes Mueller and Daniel Kreuter from Bosch in collaboration with our own colleague Thomas Nagels. Using Johannes' and Daniel's open-source Python package pyLife - a general library for fatigue and reliability, they created an easy-to-use VIKTOR application for mechanical engineers.

You can try the application yourself in the Apps Gallery or visit the pyLife GitHub repository to learn more about the open-source package.

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

• Added breadcrumbs to the browser page title
• Added a screen size support warning when opening the editor on smaller screens
• Changed daily developer logins description in activity dashboard
• Fixed editor crash when no parametrization is defined
• Fixed error report dialog to stay on top of other visual elements
• Added a notification after saving changes in the editor
• Added default cover image and icon to create app
• Fixed invalid date field values crashing the editor
• Fixed new table field to properly show prefix and suffix in header
• Fixed map feature editing when the geo field has a name
• Fixed the TableField OptionField selected value switching from label to value when the dropdown is opened

CLI

• New CLI v0.29.10 is availabe now
• check-system command changed to not fail when curl command cannot be found to check connectivity
• max-memory flag has been added to install and test command to prevent container crashing due to out-of-memory errors when using docker - as isolation mode
• The publish command doesn't unnecessarily walk through the virtual environment and .git directories anymore since these are excluded from publishing. This increases publishing speed.