A New Editor
Colors, fonts, and spacing!
We’ll be tweaking these designs over the next few months. We’d love to hear your feedback!
Some highlights
- New fonts and colors
- A new query editor, with a vertically scrolling list of queries
- An ability to hide the schema
- A more compact right hand side
- A more compact model browser
The old hamburger icon has been replaced with a new menu, and the options have moved to a next to the “Share” button.
A New Container
Containers now support
- Titles
- Background colors
- Toggling the drop shadow and border
- and scrolling!
Performance improvements
- General editor performance improvements
- Dragging new widgets onto the canvas should be faster
- Dropdown widgets are faster when using “Max Results”
- Faster scrolling for wide tables
v2.53.31 — Spring cleaning for the New Year!
Better resources
GraphQL resources now have a schema explorer!
- You can now specify a database index/number for Redis resources
- Our Lambda integration now supports Invocation type
Improvements
- Support restoring signatures from images in the Signature component
- Add “isOpen” property to Modals
- Better currency support for TextInput components
Bug Fixes
- Fix issues with on-premise deployments on Ubuntu 16
- Fix issue where callbacks in custom components were not being called correctly
- Fix issue where empty strings instead of nulls were inserted into tables
- Fix issue where JSON values from MultiSelect components weren’t parsed correctly
- Fix syntax highlighting for dropdown values
- Display Dropdown cells in Tables correctly in compact mode
- Stop converting dates to strings during Git syncing
- Bulk updates now work correctly in filtered tables
- Remove extra scroll bars in the Query library
v2.53.18 — Add rows directly to tables and a better Omnibox
Add New Row
You can now add new rows to your data directly from your table. Useful when you don’t want to build a form :)
Better Omnibox
The new Omnibox (Cmd/Ctrl+K) now can take you to Resources, Folders, the Query library, and Settings in addition to the usual Retool apps
Improvements
- Added image/png as a type in GCS resources
- Added better instructions to Container, Tabbed Container, and List View
- Added option to enable batch querying for MSSQL queries
- Accept multiple variable definitions in REST and GraphQL resources using custom auth
- Fixed bug where {{ }} in URLs in REST and GraphQL resources were not being processed correctly
- Fixed an issue where mappers were not working correctly with filters
- Fixed a bug where Retool resources (REST, Run JS Code, etc.) did not work correctly in staging
- Performance and reliability improvements
v2.52.16 — Complex table cells + Chart v2, File Dropzone, and a new Query Library
Complex Table Cells
Tables now support much more than just text. Columns can now be a Checkbox, TextInput, DatePicker, Button or Dropdown. This feature also completely integrates with bulk updates, making editing your data as simple as editing a table.
Refreshed Query Library
We’ve added a series of features along with a brand new look!
- A View History button to look through query history and revert to an earlier version
- A usage view to see which apps are using this query
- Use imported javascript libraries inside {{ }}
- A search field to find specific queries
- Permission toggle to show/hide the library to different user groups
Dropzone
A Filepicker widget when expanded will become a dropzone.
Chart v2
We’ve added a new Chart component that lets you use all three charts in one.
Improvements
- Switching resources no longer clears out your query
- Memory leak fixes for on-premise customers
- MongoDB resources now support SSL and self signed certificates
- MongoDB resources now support `updateMany`
- Snowflake resources let you specify a DB schema
- Table mappers now work correctly with filters
- Apps with a large number of queries have better performance