Town Hall #68: Super easy DNS / (FREE) SSL management on platformOS

In this Town Hall, Colin Frost walked you through the steps as facilitated by the recently launched platformOS DNS Management tool - and show you how, even as a non technical sales guy, the process is easy and intuitive. 

Documentation 

Content production

For the (gradual) launch of the new DNS management tool, we have prepared documentation topics to cover all new functionalities. Documentation for the previous process is still available (marked as OLD) until the feature is rolled out to all Partner accounts. 

• NEW Setting Up a Production Domain
• NEW Setting Up a Production Domain Hosted on platformOS
• NEW Setting Up a Production Domain on a 3rd-Party Provider
• NEW Adding DNS records to a DNS Zone
• UPDATED Liquid: Sanitization - updated example code
• UPDATED Codebase - added reference to .pos
• IN PROGRESS Get Started: Build Your Own Blog Module 
• IN PROGRESS Article for Communicator about winning the UKTC Award 
• PLANNED Write Part 1 of Building the pOS Design System with Figma - The UX processes - series
• PLANNED Write SendGrid tutorials

Improvements, fixes

• FIXED Fix export API URL

UX

Design and Development 

• NEW Partner Portal - Design System: Onboarding screen iterations and screen styles
• NEW New look of the Instance Welcome page
• NEW Prevent node from using different versions of libraries
• NEW Improve escaping of HTML entities in parse_json tag
• NEW Add uniqueness index for users
• NEW Return error codes via graphql for validation
• NEW Allow to set external_id via user_* and model_* mutations
• NEW Do not enforce HTTP protocol on redirect
• NEW Tag functionality for instances to make it possible grouping instances based on your needs.
• NEW display error when trying to remove a module which does not exist
• IN REVIEW Form class
• IN PROGRESS Check OAuth2 token with PartnerPortal
• IN PROGRESS Partner Portal registration process

Release Notes

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note, Oct 7, 2019 — New welcome page, improvements and bug fixes