Release Version

Date

Updates

Turanto 6.2

December 24, 2013

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

Information about Version and other details: Click on “About Application” of Generated Application in Admin Section to get following information:

  • Turanto version used to launch the application.
  • Who generated the application?
  • When the application last generated.

Code cleanup
Import model change for new feature in workflow like State Label.

Work Flow Enhancement in Turanto & Generated Application

Now we have two different labels for any workflow state.

  • “Button Label” which will be used on Button as Text.
  • b. “State Label” which will be stored in DB as current state of workflow, and will be used in Chevrons and Grid View.

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

  • Dependent Dropdown Feature in Action Menu
Turanto 5.9December 17, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Work flow- Set Email Notification: Now user can enable or disable email notification based on state change. In case user deselect “Email Notification for any particular transition then email action will not take place.
  • Define Group Layout: Column layout can be set for Group.
  • Time Stamp Box: Selecting Time stamp box as date property will generate application showing the current date time and logged in user.
  • Dependent drop down: Now user can set dependent drop down for 1:1 Associations

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

Ignore Security On Role Basis: User level security can be ignored based on role under application security settings.
Workflow Settings: Admin section contains new box for Workflow settings. Also Rearranged Layout of Admin section for better visibility to user for most common admin tasks.
Workflow security: Workflow security has two sections(accordions)

  • Field Security
  • Select Default Email ids

Security Settings-Set Permission: Now User will not see the tabs of details and wizard page if user does not have permission to view.
Set Permission: File Document & Journal Entry Entity added under Set Permission.
If user does not have permission then tab for Document (1.M association with Document) will not show.
Workflow Email Template: Workflow email template can be defined from Gen App admin section. (html template)
Now Workflow can be moved to relevant group and group order can be set as per requirement. Previously work flow shows always on last of the page.
Workflow buttons: If user does not have permission to change WF state then workflow buttons will not be shown to that user.
Super User can change the workflow state any time. (Previously super user was not allowed to change the state if state transition and role security defined in model)
Workflow Email notification: Now Display Properties of an entity only shows on email notification.
Workflow Chevron: Removed user name from chevron
Workflow: “Notify by email to:” column removed from grid
Dependent dropdown feature also available in Wizard now.
Workflow: Notify me check box removed
Workflow: “Move To” prefix removed from Workflow state button.
Wizard: “Save & Exit” button text on wizard replaced with “Save & Return”.
Wizard: Buttons order corrected “Previous” “Save & Return” then “Next”. Finish button removed from last step.
Submit button renamed to “Recover Your Password” under Forgot Password Screen.
“+” link button to add new item beside dropdown on quick add/details should not be visible if user does not have permission.
Favorite: “Fav” tab changed to Star image.
Reports Security: Now Super user can set the view permission on individual report to various Application Roles.
Enhanced Action GUI: Now Action options shows vertically on grid.
Time Stamp: Selecting Time stamp box as date property then generated application shows current date time and logged in user.
Change Password moved to user profile page.
Inline property with group: Now detail page showing Inline property with group.

Turanto 5.7November 14, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • User Defined Pages: User can define home pages of generated application through application modeling.
  • Entity Set Options: Now user can select or change entity grid options as per requirement. You can change or update entity options from entity list view by clicking on options link. By default all check box are selected.
  • Auto Property: Now user can set initial value of auto number from Turanto.

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

Row level security: If User is only the entity involved in Row Level Security then application Filter label on home page will not display.
Field Level Security: If properties set as ‘No Edit’ then text will show in tool tip.
Multicolor theme implemented
Entity Grid options: Selected grid options only shows on generated application.
Save Search: Now user can save search criteria for advanced search. After setting all the criteria as soon as you hit search button, It will provide you option to Save the search result with a given name. Save Search option will visible after Search only.
Search Section: A new section for Search on Home page introduced that will contain all saved search. And it is user based just like favorite. Clicking on saved search will redirect to advanced search section opened with search criteria displayed.
User Defined Page:  User defines home pages can be set from admin page of generated application. You can change page content and also assign role to the page.
Edit Column on grid removed. Buttons (Edit/Delete/Wizard) moved inside the “Action” column.
Set Default Role: Any role can be set as default role from admin section of Generated Application. This will be used for new user registration. All new users (New Sign Up) will be assigned to default role.(One role can be selected at a time)
User Profile: User profile link introduced in generated application under user drop down.
Wizard: Chevron implemented on wizard pages and GUI improved. Work flow Buttons will be always shown on top right side.
Owner Permission: If “User Owner” permission is set by admin then in “Quick Add” and “Detail Page” the association value will be selected (gray out) on the basis of logged in user.
Group: Details page GUI improved for inline within inline associations.
Login Page Declaration: Now user can define declaration statement on log in page. This can be set from admin page of generated application. You can enable or disable settings.
Quick-add and Full-add icons will not show on grid if user does not have add permission.
User Registration Page (Sign Up)

  • Message that ‘User name should be an email’ color changed to black.
  • Submit button text overlap corrected.

Date time column Sorting issue – Resolved.
Theme: Only admin can change the themes now onwards.

Turanto 5.4

October 24, 2013

Performance Improvement

Generated application performance updates include some major architecture changes to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Performance improved drastically for following pages and functionality.

  • List Page
  • Wizard Page
  • Search/Advance search
  • Home Page
  • Details Page

Turanto Web Enhancement

Group Weight: Now the weight of new property in Turanto will be calculated on the basis of group. (Previously it was Max(All Properties Of All Groups)+10)
Disable Quick Add: User can disable ”Quick Add” functionality for the entity by adding or editing entity to improve the performance of list if entity contains drop downs having too many data.
Association read only: Now User can set associations as read only.
Launch Performance Improved by providing options to user at the time of launch.
Mobile application if required

  • WCF services if required
  • Third party login can be decided before launch.
  • Generate APK.

Enable/Disable Third Party Login: Now user can enable or disable Third Party Login while launching application.

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

  • Favorite: Now user can save filter criteria as favorite on home page.
  • Favorite GUI improved.
  • Home Page: New home page implemented for generated applications. Now Home page color will change as per theme selection.
  • A. Session Time out URL Redirect: If session timed out then after re login user will directly go to the page from where he has been logged out.
  • Full Add: Full Add option is introduced on grid. This feature highly beneficial to add complete data under association tabs.
  • Login page: GUI improved for Forgot Password, Forgot User Name & Sign Up Modal windows and color changes as per theme selection.
  • Advance Search: Now details page properties will show under drop down for search.
  • Reports: RDL Download: RDL can be downloaded for reports.
  • RDL Dashboard:  Dashboard graph & chart showing using RDL.
  • Report: Filter By: Now user can view reports type using filter by option.
  • Date: Default Date Time set to blank. (If property is set to required then it will fill it with today’s date otherwise it will leave it blank)
  • Default image replaced with “No Image” text in List, Grid, Gallery view
  • Changed User settings to Options.
  • Change password moved to user drop down.
  • All default pages (old infrastructure pages/controls) UI improved.
  •  Dash board moved to Reports section of home page and Report list page.
  • Admin Page: Application Security settings GUI improved.
  • Admin Page: Rest APIs page GUI improved.
  • Work flow button GUI improved
  • Quick Add:  Modal Window GUI improved and color changes as per theme selection.
  • Wizard: Wizard page GUI improved and color changes as per theme selection.
  • Home page default image changed.
Turanto 5.3

October 8, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Group Weight: Now the weight of new property in Turanto will be calculated on the basis of group. (Previously it was Max (All Properties Of All Groups) +10)

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

  • Favorite: Now user can save filter criteria as favorite on home page.
  • Favorite GUI improved.
  • Home Page: New home page implemented for generated applications. Now Home page color will change as per theme selection.
  • A. Session Time out URL Redirect: If session timed out then after re login user will directly go to the page from where he has been logged out.
  • User can directly access application URL (external URL)
  • Full Add: Full Add option is introduced on grid. This feature highly beneficial to add complete data under association tabs
  • Advance Search: Now details page properties will show under drop down for search.
  • Reports: RDL Download: RDL can be downloaded for reports.
  • RDL Dashboard:  Dashboard graph & chart showing using RDL.
  • Date: Default Date Time set to blank. (If property is set to required then it will fill it with today’s date otherwise it will leave it blank)
  • Default image replaced with “No Image” text in List, Grid, Gallery view
  • Changed User settings to Options.
  • Change password moved to user dropdown.
  • All default pages (old infrastructure pages/controls) UI improved.
Turanto 5.2

September 24, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Import Model: Import Model with Work Flow from Source Application Improved. Now we can import model with workflow and database without impacting the source application. Previously New imported application (Target Model) and Source Model were pointing to same (original workflow).
  • Workflow UI Improvement: Workflow tabs GUI improved. Define State Transitions screen shows horizontal scroll bar if too many States are defined. Now Work Flow States are always visible with scrolling content.
  • Forgot Password: Back To Login link introduced.
  • Change Password: UI improved.
  • GPS feature with image data type(For Mobile only): Now user can enable GPS for Image Property in Turanto

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

  • Significant Performance Improvement of list and detail pages. Now the pages with thousands of records are displayed without much delay.
  • Filter: Workflow Property: Now User can filter Work flow properties using Filter Option.
  • Added Themes: Newly introduced theme will set application for menu, header background, login page, heading bar and also with modal windows.
  • Generated Apps Login:  Now Application login page color changes as per theme selected. Default color is Fire Red.
  • User settings: the dropdown will show Admin, Theme, Mobile, Contact Us & Change Password links.
  • Theme Selection: Now user can select themes from User settings also. Selected theme shows as Current theme.
  • Contact Us: UI improved border color changes as per theme selected.
  • Change Password: Change Password Page GUI improved.
  • Application Filter: Application Filter GUI improved.

Mobile Enhancement & Features

  • GPS feature with image data type:  Now system will generate latitude & longitude automatically while uploading image. And also user can manually change latitude and longitude as per user choice.
  • Image Location: Clicking on image property icon will show nearest 10 miles images.
  • Document Association: 1:M Document Association implemented on Mobile.
Turanto 5.1

September 10, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Turanto Sign In: New Login Page introduced for Turanto.
  • Easy to navigate & read Terms of Service link relocated Turanto login page.
  • Forgot Password Page Enhancement
  • Turanto HELP links now available in Turanto Home page

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

Enhanced Security features for Login & change password: Now additional authentication process applied for better security including:

  • Minimum 8 chars Password
  • Combination of uppercase, lower case, special character & numeric.
  • Validation check for chosen password
  • Change Password constraint – Minimum Time between changes in Hours (24 Hrs. default)
  • Password expiry set for 60 days. Once password expires then it will navigate you to change password page
  • Password cannot be same as last 3 passwords used in application for login.
  • Account locking on 3 unsuccessful attempt-Users can unlock with valid password after 24 Hours.

Remember Me: Remember Me option removed from login page.
Import Model: Performance improved for import model
Inline Edit usability improved: Grid View Inline edit feature removed. Now double clicking on grid will lead you to detail page.
Reports: SSRS Report look and feel enhanced.
Reports: Now field level security is applied for simple reports.

Turanto 5.0

August 20, 2013

Migration to SQL Server 2008

  • Turanto and Generated Applications moved from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Defining association labels: Now user can state association names on both sides as per choice.

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

Association two-sides labels
Grid view, Detail Page, Quick Add, Action Menu, Filter showing association target labels instead of association name.
SSRS Reporting with Report Definition Language(RDL):

  • Now User has option to  view reports in 2  formats
    • HTML view – this view also available in earlier version
    • SSRS-RDL view – New feature(Default)
  • Report Definition Language (RDL) upload – User can upload RDL file and can view the result.

GUI Enhancements:

  • Filter: Filter mouse hover options truncated on opening Quick add or Tools bar.
  • Actions: If more actions options on, then grid truncated and horizontal scroll bar enabled.
  • Filter: If more filter options on hovering mouse then not able to view or click on 1024*768 resolution.
  • Filter: Slow mouse hover: on hovering mouse on slowly then filter options not enabled.
  • Filter: Filter Click should remove on grid as mouse hover functionality implemented.
  • Filter: once filter applied, tabs should be properly aligned. Currently Extra space shows below search.
Turanto 4.5.5

August 14, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Turanto Launch Page: Launch page of application now has option to generate android APK for the application. (Default: Checkbox is Deselected. Choosing this option may slightly affect launch time)

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

Actions Button UI: Graphical user interface improved for better look and feel.
Grid menu icons: Quick Add, tools, show graph and export excel options are converted in to icons for better look and feel.
Entity Column Layout: Entity column layout implemented for all themes. This feature is for web applications only.
Advance Search option moved to last option on grid.
Workflow: Email Notification: Email contents shows details & in proper format.
Advanced Search with Empty value: Now users can search for empty fields. Ex:  search for “Student user Login”  “Equals “.
Upload Data from Excel: Worksheet Selection:  Now user can select multiple worksheets in a generated application from drop down selection to map fields on basis of selected worksheet.

  • Select worksheet from dropdown to  view selected sheet columns
  • If only one sheet on excel then dropdown selection will not be shown
Turanto 4.5.4

August 8, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Application Roles:  Roles defined in Turanto will be automatically created in generated application. User can update or delete the roles on grid. Role Permission drop down removed from Application Roles page. Now user can set permission to these Roles using Set Role Permission Tab.
  • Set Role Permission: User can set permission on basis of roles created from application roles. For each entity you can set Add/Edit/Delete/View by selecting check box. Permissions defined in Turanto will be automatically created in generated application.
  • GPS Location Tracker: The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location information. In Turanto user can set any entity by enabling GPS Location Tracker while creating Entity. This feature is available for Mobile app only.
  • Define Column layout: User can set entity page layout based on business requirement. Default layout is 2-column layouts. While creating application in Turanto you can set layout for particular entity.

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

Field Level Security: User who do not have permission  to view or Edit fields or drop downs  in an entity page then they cannot view or edit from quick add, Details page, Inline Edit and through wizard also. This feature works for all the data types of an entity.  Admin can define field level security from admin section of generated application.
Admin section for setting Field level security: if user does not have view rights on entity then ”No View” will be disabled and by default all check boxes will be selected. Same for “NO EDIT”. ”Select All” check box on both the columns. Clicking will select all the checkboxes of respective column. Entity Permission can also be modified from this page.
Upload Data from Excel:

  • Field Level security applied on Import Excel Feature. Columns with “NO EDIT” or “NO VIEW” privilege will not be available for mapping with excel sheet columns.
  • Upload Data From Excel: Entity Name included in popup header
  • Auto Property will not be available for mapping.
  • GUI improved for Upload from Excel.
  • Null Date Issue while uploading excel resolved.

Advance Search option placed near Entity Search.
Grid View: Three different types of grid view implemented on Generated app.

  • Editable View
  • List View
  • Gallery View

Column Layout: Three different types of column layout can be viewed in generated application: one column, Two column and Three column layout. This should be set from Turanto while creating application.

Gen App Mobile Enhancement

GPS Location: This feature enables to the entity to which GPS location enabled.

  • Application shows GPS alert message once app login page appears.
  • Selecting Share location will enable GPS on applications.
  • Go to Entity to view Location icon on entity list page.
  • Tap on location icon to view filtered entity records based on current GPS Location. This will show the records within 10 miles range.
  • Tap on Map to view location on Google map.

Mobile Work flow: Now user can view or update work flow status from mobile app.

  • Example workflow app list view
  • Tap on arrow mark to view work flow record. This will show you workflow status with chevron presentation with details like who when record is updated.
  • Tap on Edit to update work flow status. Selecting on button (Ex: Assigned) will change record status from open to Assign.
Turanto 4.5.1

July 3, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Application Roles: User can create application roles in Turanto modeling. Roles defined in Turanto will be automatically created in Gen App with desired permission. These Roles can be used with Workflow feature. User can set the default permission for the Role (All, Can Edit, Read Only) for all entities. On Re-launch the Roles will not get duplicated. If Admin has changed the permission of a user defined Role then on re-launching the changes will not get lost.
  • Workflow Role Permission: User can select roles for the state change permission under ‘Set Action on State Transition’ tab during defining Workflow states.
  • Defining workflow in Turanto converted into wizard. Every step has “Save and Continue to Next step” button. Last step will show Save and Return to Application.
  • Alert message for loosing of data moved to last and will always be visible for all tabs. Previously was showing on Details (First) tab of workflow.
  • “Back to Application” link introduced to go back to main application.
  • Force Launch:  if application does not have any changes in model, ‘Force launch’ check box will be enabled on launch page. And selecting it will consider as changes in model and goes to launch.
  • Workflow: Adding Workflow property will enable ‘Track Changes’ automatically to that entity.

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

  • Workflow: Role based State Change Permission: User who do not have permission will not be able to change the state. Along with Detail page user cannot even change the state using inline grid edit or through wizard also.
  • Advance Search: Now advance search Columns shows Display Name instead of Internal name.
  • Home Page: Default Image white space removed.
  • Notification: Now ‘Notify me’ & ‘Notify by email to:’ shows in a Group
Turanto 4.4.9

June 21, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Upgrade: Now clicking on Upgrade navigates to Contact Us Page.

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

  • Workflow Usability: workflow states dropdown replaced with buttons. All possible next states buttons will be automatically generated. To see chevron like presentation of workflow state, entity should have track changes and workflow property should be in group.
  • Email Notification list renamed as ‘Notify by email to ‘
  • Subscribe renamed as ‘Notify me ‘
  • Advance Search: Advanced search by property (>, <, =, range, etc.) * With And/ Or Query statement
  • Home Page Tiles Layout UI Improvement.
Turanto 4.4.8

June 17, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Scheduler Feature – user can add entity as “Schedulable”. Useful feature for creating appointments, resource scheduling on the fly.
  • Anonymous Login Setting in Turanto – optional .used to provide users with easy access

Generated Web Enhancement & Features

  • Scheduler Feature (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Recurrence Meeting)
  • Scheduler Notification -Send email in ICS format
  • New Home Page Tiles Layout
  • Advance Search
  • Date Time With Time Box
  • Application Security: Disable filter button disabled for all other users except super user
  • Breadcrumbs made Clickable

Gen App Mobile Enhancement

  • Mobile Sign UP
  • Forgot Password
Turanto 4.4.6

May 10, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

Import Model

  • now the user  has option to import model along with the database
  • all features such as tab order, Property line break, help text, display property in association, depended dropdown can be imported
  • improved user friendly  UI for pop-up

Missing Property entry – Should the user create Entity without property a meaningful validation message is displayed with the particular entity name. The user can take corrective action.
Entity Rename: Self associated entity also can be renamed.
String Validation for strings like SSN, phone number added.
Added validation in Wizard fields similar to Quick Add.

Generated Web Enhancement

  • Removed Mobile1 link from web. Now old mobile application pages not generating, this will improve performance on launch.
  • Wizard Page validation improved.

Turanto Android Enhancement

  • APK performance improved on loading login page.
  • Loading page UI layout improved – earlier the message was truncated when viewed in Mobile browser.

Turanto Mobile Enhancement

  • Sign up page improved by clearing field data.

Gen App Mobile Enhancement

  • Mobile page performance improved by showing top 100 records. More than 100 records use search feature.
  • Mobile performance improved on loading login page.
  • Improved home screen to include different icons for each entity- earlier only one icon was displayed.
Turanto 4.4

April 4, 2013

Gen App Mobile Enhancement

Application Cache (or App Cache)

  • Faster Speed – cached resources are local, and therefore load faster.
  • Reduced server load – the browser will only download resources from the server that have changed.

Log In Page

  • Header now displays application name.
  • Validation check for user credentials.
  • Forgot password module

Home Page

  • Application Name –displayed on header
  •  Logged- in User name displayed in Admin section under the Menu pane.

List Page – Header now displays application name.
Details List- Header now displays application name.
Edit Page

  • Header now displays application name
  • Controls for data type number, string, text, Boolean, date picker, Drop down
  • New Date Picker with facility to select year
  • Added icon for adding new associated record in dropdowns (M: 1 association).
  • Added for adding existing associated record in dropdowns (M: M associations).

Validation message for Required fields
Improved usability for 1:M  Association, M:M association
Log out issue resolved – this issue occurred when adding a record to Entity. On adding the record the Login Page was returned instead of List Page but record used to get saved and visible when login next time.

Turanto Web

  • Tab order auto increment
  • Code changes in Turanto Architecture (All validations checks moved from Web to Core)
  • Quick Add (collapse, expand) incorrect behavior with excel export resolved.

Turanto Mobile Development

Log In

  • Validation check for user credentials.
  • Forgot password link

Sign up

  • Duplicate check – if user already registered
  • Validation for correct email, password length, characters
  • Email – verify it

Turanto Home

  • Define Run an App? – Same as application list … both will have launch. Edit buttons.
  • My Apps, Run an App & All Public Apps shows logged in user apps only.  (filter based)
  • About Turanto link
  • Meta tag – to enable browser button to save web app on Iphone.

App Info

  • Delete functionality
  • Validation for special characters, duplicate, mandatory fields
  • URL duplicate validation
  • URL auto created with app name without space or special characters

Entity Info

  • Validation – check mandatory fields and display alert
  • Duplicity check
  • Delete functionality
  • On edit/delete Entity check and give alert for associations like – Type, Cat, Status, Person & Others

Property Info

  • Validation – check mandatory fields and display alert
  • Duplicity check
  • Delete functionality
  • All data types
  • Display Data As/Check box options auto fill based on selected Data Type

Association Info

  • Validation – check mandatory fields and display alert
  • Duplicate check
  • Delete functionality
  • User, Document default entities in target entity drop down
  • Display Order For Drop Down
  • Required field (check box)

Application Cache (or App Cache)

  • Faster Speed – cached resources are local, and therefore load faster.
  • Reduced server load – the browser will only download resources from the server that have changed.

Usability improvement

Turanto 4.3.3

March 5, 2013

Turanto Web Enhancement

  • Label data type and Line Separator datatype
  • Entity Tab Order
  • Automatically select Datatype of Property based on its Display Name.
  • 1 association Display Value in Info object (improves performance of grid and needed for new mobile app
  • Property Page in Turanto UI improved.
  • Property Page JavaScript function changed to get Property name dynamically on right hand. (labels)
  • Row Level security Help text/label on every step. (Made it like wizard)
  • $ sign on detail and quick add for currency data type
  • Tooltip on action column on grid for 1.M associations
  • Quick Add bug fix for multiple tab of same entity (created by, owned by)
  • Turanto Export page (Security to export requirement document to user who are either in Turanto group or super user)
  • 12. Entity Image Settings