Wappler 7.6.0 Released
Check the new Wappler site at https://wappler.io/
and download Wappler 7.6.0 from your Account Dashboard
Or just do “check for updates” on the Wappler tray icon for automatic install!
What's New
We are starting this year with a huge Wappler update that brings a brand new Tour Manager to Wappler.
The Tour Manager allows us to create detailed tours for all parts of Wappler, that can guide new users through the various panels and features of Wappler.
We have tours to get you started with Wappler, but also learn the basics tours and deep dive tours for each panel in Wappler.
Try the main tours from the top left help icon in Wappler, or from the question mark icon in each panel toolbar. Specially the "Why Wappler", "Learning the basics" , "Wappler Overview" and the "Bootstrap" Tours are pretty complete and well visual.
We will continue to extend and add more tours in the next updates, so let us know what you would like to see!
The tours will be very useful to all new users to get started with Wappler, but also for experienced users to learn more about specific panels and features in Wappler.
Next to guiding users through Wappler, the tours can also be exported as markdown documents with screenshots for each step, or even recorded as video with voice over.
This will help us create great documentation and tutorials for Wappler in the future and achieve our long term goal of having perfect documentation for all parts of Wappler.
So check them out and let us know what you think!
Wappler Tour Manager
- Add Tour buttons to all panels in the html editor Now you can start with a main over view tour or choose a specific panel tour from its own toolbar
- Implemented overview, how-to and reference tours for each panel
- New tour actions toolbar to control auto play, voice over, export and recording
- Added tour auto play to start automatic tour running
- Added voice over to have the tour spoken to you
- Add export possibility to save the tour as markdown with screenshots for the steps
- Add record option to record a video from the tour, with voice if on
- Voice option can be toggle as voice on with popups or just voice only
- improved tour flows and simplify structure
- Updated tour manager docs
- Make tour loading dynamically on demand
- Improve tour dialog positioning
- Improved styling and positioning
- Improve the tour manager to run in a native popup window - so it is available outside of the Wappler main window, it is draggable and resizable as well
- Improved tour popup window positioning and size
- Allow tours to change property values
- Reorganized tour actions to be more modular
- improved click actions in the structure tree
- improved working with property inspector drop lists
- improved entering values in inputs
- Improved the export to markdown
- Improved the export to video to be more reliable and also produce indexed webm file
- Improved the action execution on the property inspectors
- Do not fully lock the underlying UI when running tours
- Improved tour popup styling
- Improved highlighting of controls in panels
- Improved highlighting of the components picker when used in tours
- Improved border of the components picker when used in tours
- Introduced tour groups of steps that can be skipped
- Added support for callouts within steps for more attention
- Also use the callouts in the exported markdown
- Improved the markdown export to include the tour description, better headings and callouts
- Implement automatic screenshot partial cutting depending on the highlighted area
- Improved also the partial cutting for the property panel selected fields
- Implemented design view actions, now we can do actions within design view to show actions in the browser
- Improved the markdown exporter to screenshot detailed click actions with clear click indicator
- Improved bootstrap property panel fields highlighting during the tour. Auto scroll to the field if not visible.
Various Tours Improvements
- Added Learning the basics tours for new users to be able to get started quickly and easy with Wappler
- Added more diagrams to the Learning the basic tours to make the explanation perfectly clear
- Enhanced the Why Wappler tour with more explanation and animations
- Improved and extended the Bootstrap 5 Modals tour
- Allow tour parts to be skipped as optional
- Updated the Bootstrap 5 Modals tour with skippable steps
- Improved Bootstrap 5 modals tour to highlight the properties used at the end
- Made the Bootstrap 5 Modals Tour more clear
- Improved the Bootstrap 5 Modals Tour with steps to test the modal in design view
- Created Bootstrap tours for Components, cards, Forms, Layout, Modals, Navbar, Navigation Align, Offcanvas, Placeholders and Typography
- Reorganized and extended the Bootstrap tours to be more complete and also in sub categories
- Get started in Left Sidebar managers tours, so File Manager, Git manager, Database Manager, Theme Manager
General
- Extended support for always on top windows
- Improved native popup windows focusing and modality
Database Manager
- Show key icon for all primary keys
- For postgres use always withSchema for migrations
- Support postgres with other default schema than public
- Some old connection files can have pg as databaseType instead of postgres
- Added missing types to query builder filter mapping
- Default to string when no mapping found to prevent errors
Git Manager
- Updated pull to use simpleGit
App Connect 2.2.3
- Improved rendering of nested expressions
Server Connect PHP 2.8.1
- Added full support for PHP 8.5
- Improved session checks