What's new in VIKTOR (September 2023)

by VIKTOR Team

The time has come for September's platform update. For this month, we have been working on the possibility to set environment variables on your apps and the addition of a request access button that enables your colleagues to easily get access to your company's VIKTOR environment! For this month's community spotlight, we want to share Eymen Çağatay Bilge's app for generating optimized architectural designs for various housing types.

Set environment variables on your apps

You can now set your own environment variables on an app. With this, you can keep sensitive data out of your app code, such as credentials to authenticate third-party services, private package indexes, or repositories to install Python packages that are not available on PyPi.

This means you no longer have to contact us to manage the value of the 'VIKTOR_APP_SECRET' and you can add multiple if you need more. These variables can be defined from the app's details page in the user interface. After setting the variable it becomes available in the app runtime, from where it can be accessed by the app code.

Visit the documentation to learn more!

Colleagues without VIKTOR account can now request access

With the new 'Request Access' button, your colleagues without an account can now request access to your company's VIKTOR environment too! This means that users no longer have to guess who to contact if they want to gain access.

Access requests will be bundled and sent per mail to the environment admins, ready for processing on the admin's part.

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Community spotlight

For this edition, we want to highlight an application by Eymen Çağatay Bilge that generates optimized architectural designs for various housing types. It takes into account factors like views, natural light, sun-hour, sales area, and cost. The goal is to create designs that align with zoning regulations and land specifics.

Try out the app and share your thoughts on his community post about the app to help Eymen refine it!

Would you 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

SDK

Version v14.5.0 is now available

PLATFORM

Added ability to set environment variables on the apps
Added link to activity dashboard docs to audit page
Added loading state while activity data is being exported
Added loading state while file manager file is being downloaded
Added support for mobile and tablet screens to editor
Added support for mobile and tablet screens to environment pages
Added ability to request access to the environment
Added ability to toggle password visibility on login
Added password reset confirmation page
Allowed pasting of user lists into the user group members dialog
Fixed data view to never cut off data values and adjusted layout to be a single column on small screens
Fixed left scroll button disappearing on editor pages
Fixed step labels to properly get shortened before triggering horizontal scroll
Fixed multi-region notice in create workspace review always showing
Fixed the file manager table file type filter to be case insensitive
Fixed Image not centered when max_width is defined
Fixed crash large activity data CSV export