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platformOS Documentation and UX Status Report — Aug 19, 2019

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In this week’s status report, we’d like to invite you to share your experiences related to the new names. Other than this you can read about content production, design, and development related news.
platformOS Documentation and UX Status Report — Aug 19, 2019

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION: Naming convention - follow up on the new names

In the last few weeks based on your feedback, we started to change some old names like Customization, Custom Model Types, marketplace-kit, form_configurations, graph_queries and create new more usable names based on your feedback. Please participate in our research to help us figure out how satisfied are you with these name changes! 

✓ Customization         →  Model 

✓ Custom Model Types  Model Schemas

✓ marketplace-kit →  pos-cli 

✓ form_configurations forms

✓ graph_queries         → graphql 

Share your feedback


Documentation

Content production

  • NEW Improved cache tag description and added new example
  • PLANNED Article on how to use assets relative path (example.com/assets/app.css instead of *.cloudfront.net/instances/instance_id/assets/app.css)  

Improvements, fixes

  • NEW Assets are also available on custom domain (example.com/assets/ instead of *.cloudfront.net/instances/instance_id/assets)
  • IN PROGRESS Allowing to put favicon and ServiceWorker files into root domain (example.com/)
  • IN PROGRESS Add new filter asset_path that will return relative path to asset with updated_at query param to bust cache - similar to asset_url.
  • UPDATED Total maximum number of fields in model increased to 2500
  • UPDATED Errors returned by the server to pos-cli should be more informative

UX

Design and Development 

  • NEW Partner Portal - Design System: Revisited the navigation structure of Partner Portal based on user feedback and usability results.  We used The updated sitemap structure to create a new Navigation plan and a prototype. 
  • NEW Token per Instance instead of one global token
  • IN REVIEW Data import: batch import performance improvements
  • 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 a global ID
  • IN PROGRESS Remove uploaded module from Partner Portal
  • IN PROGRESS DNS/SSL automation and improvements

Improvements, fixes

  • NEW Install free module without credit card
  • NEW Liquid: fix log tag for too long error_type
  • IN REVIEW fix setting property_array to an empty array in mutations

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 19, 2019

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