Town Hall #76: One Orange Cow — CMS for Franchises, importer, DB manager and client solution

Watch in our latest Town Hall how respected, long-term BC partners (13+ years) Brendan Byrne and Richard Lane of One Orange Cow chose to go all-in with platformOS making it the foundation of all web applications they build. "Flexibility and power" — a major reason for that decision.  Also, in Richard's deep experience, the platformOS Liquid engine implementation is one of the most powerful he's ever seen.

See One Orange Cow's:

• Relational Database Manager (allowing for complex 1-to-Many and Many-to-Many join tables)
• WYSIWYG editor solution, soon to be the 'Ultimate CMS for web apps" - that uses JSON rather than the much more limiting HTML Markdown
• Dynamic CSV Data Importer (to accommodate any data structure, import any database simply)
• Early view of what their 'CMS for Franchisors' will look like

NOTE: The data importer will be made available on the platformOS Module Marketplace in the coming week or two!

Documentation

Content production

• NEW Onboarding documentation for the semi-technical and technical journeys:
• NEW Hello, World!: the first part of our Get Started guide, that will teach you how to set up your development environment, create a simple site, make a small change on the home page, and deploy it. This is to make sure you have everything you need and everything works. You can stop here and start experimenting based on our documentation, or you can move on to the second part of our Get Started guides.
• NEW Build a ToDo List App: the second part of our Get Started guide that walks you through the steps of creating a ToDo List app on platformOS from setting up your development environment to deploying and testing your finished app. It explains basic concepts, main building blocks, and the logic behind platformOS, while also giving you some recommendations on workflow.
• UPDATED Development Workflow - added description for the recommended workflow and links to related topics in the Best Practices section
• UPDATED Creating Items from an External API Call - updated how to generate API token
• IN PROGRESS Update GitHub Contributors functionality
• IN PROGRESS Documentation site design update
• IN PROGRESS Reorganize sections and categories 
• PLANNED GraphQL - Documentation Explorer Issues
• PLANNED Update GDPR compliance topic 

UX

Design and Development

• NEW pOS Marketing Site - Home page designs and blog layout
• IN REVIEW Builder: migrate data when property type changes
• IN REVIEW Add `to_int` liquid filter
• IN REVIEW Allow to pick algorithm for jwt token
• IN PROGRESS Fast export on new stack
• IN PROGRESS Postgres: set timeout for queries
• IN PROGRESS Split Scope for queries on large model collections
• IN PROGRESS Respect full graphql query/mutation path during sync/deploy
• IN PROGRESS Make name attribute in form optional (default based on path)
• IN PROGRESS Revive and improve pos-cli export
• IN PROGRESS Duplicate instance to any stack, including data and assets
  

Improvements and Fixes

• FIXED Liquid: raise instance error when trying to include view with wrong name

Development

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note Feb 24, 2020 — Export/import 2.0 internals, error handling improvements