Town Hall #61: Team platformOS Updates

Watch our latest Town Hall for an update on engineering WIP, DNS, SSL provisioning, documentation, onboarding UX, overage analytics for sites, and more. 

Documentation

Content production

• IN PROGRESS Use Cases: Thank you very much to all of our Partners who are working on use cases! We now have four use cases in the making. Please let us know if you’d like to share how you solved problems, implemented features, or improved processes using platformOS, and we’ll be happy to help you write your use case. 
• UPDATED Move Context Variable one level up
• IN PROGRESS Get Started: Build Your Own Blog Module 
• IN PROGRESS Error Codes documentation
• PLANNED Add graphiql to How platformOS Works/Technologies
• PLANNED Use Case: Referral
• PLANNED Add external sources where applicable

Improvements, fixes

• FIXED Improve performance of "New!"  
• IN REVIEW Fix links on examples site
• IN REVIEW UX improvement for the examples site: don’t display Documentation link where there is no related documentation (yet) 

UX

Design and Development 

• NEW Partner Portal - Design System: Layout specifications, components, styles, and library setup in Figma
• NEW creating image / attachment via user/user_profile/model mutations
• NEW Fix persisting auth0 configuration in PartnerPortal
• IN REVIEW Data import: batch import performance improvements
• IN REVIEW Token per Instance instead of one global token
• IN PROGRESS Implementation of the new look and content of the pOS Instance Welcome Page
• IN PROGRESS New look and content was iterated for the pOS 1-click demo Instance creator page
• IN PROGRESS Research possibility of scoping resources ID per Instance, instead of having global ID
• IN PROGRESS Remove uploaded module from Partner Portal
• IN PROGRESS DNS for production instance: provide private Load Balancer Alias

Release Notes

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note, Aug 12, 2019 - presigned_upload_url GraphQL mutation, graph_queries to graphql rename, images/attachments better support via GraphQL mutations