Appkit SDK 4.2.0 Release Notes

Date formats. Date formats are applied to date ranges in facet series in charts.

Range values. The numberFormat and dateFormat value filters now handle range values automatically by formatting the endpoints of a range individually. With this change, you must remove any special handling of range values in individual widgets.

Multiselection of highmaps regions. A new select attribute has been added to the geo:highmaps tag, which takes these values:

Tag search:dropdown renamed. The search:dropdown tag has been replaced with the facet:dropdown tag. All functionality from the prior tag exists in the new one.

Control filter selection for facet:dropdown. A new select parameter has been added to the facet:dropdown tag, which takes these values:

Pass options to geo:highmaps. The new options parameter lets you pass other options to geo:highmaps.

Show more values for search:filter. A new show-more-values parameter has been added to the search:filter tag.

New parameters for facet:dropdown. A number of additional parameters are now available in the facet:dropdown tag:

facet-name
title
show
show-more
max-characters
select
show-empty
show-more-label
show-less-label
show-count
action
order
count-number
date-format
measure

Track clicks for any clickable elements. You can add click tracking to any clickable element on a page, including clicks on elements that are not anchor elements (and not even hyperlinks). To configure click tracking on custom elements, include your block of trackable elements in a <track-clicks> element, as before, and add one or more of the following attributes to the DOM elements for which you want to intercept click events:

Deleting annotations is tracked. Annotation deletions are now tracked (they generate signals).

Restrict tk.session cookie to HTTPS channels. You can now configure whether or not the tk.session cookie should be restricted to HTTPS channels over "SSL" (actually TLS). By default, the cookie is sent over all channels (the prior behavior).

secure-cookie: true

Set the hover timeout of a widget popover. You can set the hover timeout of the widget popover. This is the amount of time in milliseconds that the popover is displayed after the user leaves the popover trigger. The optional parameter is hover-timeout. The default is 1000 (1 second). Here is an example that sets the hover timeout to 1/10th of a second:

<widget:popover mode="hover" hover-timeout="100">
 <popover-trigger><button styling="button">Hover with a short timeout></popover-trigger>
 <popover-content>
    <h1>Hover</h1>
    <p>The hover timeout of the button you are hovering over is set to 1/10th of a second.</p>
 </popover-content>
</widget:popover>

Customize icons for facet lists. You can customize the icons used to expand and collapse a facet list.

Press Enter to save a search query. After entering a name for a saved search, a user can now press Enter to save the search query.

Number formatting for widget:slider. The widget:slider element now supports number formatting. Use a number-format parameter to specify a format using the Java DecimalFormat.

<widget:slider response="response" facet-name="Cost_i" number-format="$#,###.00"></widget:slider>

Performance improvement for search-enabled facets. Performance has been improved for search-enabled facets, that is, search:facet elements with search-enabled set to true.

Choose fonts to include in web apps. You can choose among three Less stylesheet language files for including fonts in web apps.

jQuery 3.3.1 support. Appkit upgraded its use of jQuery to version 3.3.1

Performance improvement for loading comments. Loading times for comments in app UIs have been reduced significantly.

Configuration property passthrough for Elastic X-Pack. For the Elastic 6 platform, any configuration properties that start with xpack are passed through to the Elastic X-Pack client.

Modify path of app URL. To make your app available at a different URL than http://hostname:*port*/ (for example, http://localhost:8080/), use the -Dtwigkit.http.context command-line parameter when starting the app to specify a path component to append to the URL. This can make using a reverse proxy easier.

License restriction in Fusion. The Appkit Fusion platform is now license-restricted. Using the Fusion platform now requires this license property in the Fusion license.properties file:

property_social: *

Sort Solr facets by count. Previously, in the SolrHierarchicalFacetService and GreedySolrHierarchicalFacetService services, you could only sort by name. Now, you can also sort by count.

Where to enable tracking. The determination of whether tracking should be enabled is now made in ActivityModule instead of in individual trackers.

Redirection to logout page when in HTML5 mode. The security:user-actions tag has been improved to redirect to the logout page when the application is in HTML5 mode.

Specify hidden fields in search:fields. In addition to specifying user selectable fields, the search:fields element now lets you use the new attribute hidden-fields to specify a set of fields that will always be requested, whether or not the user selects them.

When CSRF security is enabled, the backend for Appkit Lightning social/collaboration widgets does’t pass the request token to the frontend.

Search query saved previously in the search:box component persists in the saved-search pane and must be cleared manually.

The widget:date-range component lets a user select a To date that precedes a From date.

Custom colors defined in @highchart-colors does not work.

Clearing all breadcrumbs does not clear the breadcrumb for the search query term.

Lucene index delete queue is not flushed after document deletion.

The chart:histogram element does not display a histogram if there is only a single facet value.

The indicator of the sorting order for search results is not set when a new sort is performed.

For the search:box and advanced:button elements, pagination is not reset when a new search is performed.

The widget:date-range component uses a previously selected To date when reselecting dates.

When using both tabs and saved searches, sometimes selecting a saved search had no effect.

When doing partial updates using an Appkit Solr platform, the id field is modified incorrectly.

The suggester parameter in the SolrSuggestionsRetriever service is ignored, which prevents specification of multiple suggester dictionaries.

An OAuth filter conflicts with a Spring Security filter if the filters have the same name.

Logging about floating licenses is not correct.

It is impossible to use arrows to select typeahead results when a search:result-list element is nested inside an instant:result-list element.

A dependency conflict exists between the Elastic 6 adaptor and the Media module. It is not possible to use them together.

Track Clicks cannot calculate the offset if RPP (results per page) is not included in the query.

Hierarchical facet filters are not being fully cleared.

Attempting to connect to a Fusion data source using a query profile returns a 404 error if the Fusion collection has more than one shard.

The draw function in Google Maps creates the longitude filter incorrectly.

When using the facet:dropdown element and making more than one facet selection, incorrect facets are selected, highlighted, indicated in breadcrumbs, and used in queries.

Calling store on the Lucene platform does not add new documents.

New bounds are not used for a Google Map when a user clicks a filter.

Documentation for the collaboration:comment-list tag mentions bookmarks instead of comments.

When no LDAP groups are found for a user, an invalid LDAP query cause an exception to be thrown.

Clicking outside a list of selectable fields displayed by a search:fields element does not hide the list of fields.