Anvilor Highlights - Versions 1.17 & 1.18

v1.17 & v1.18
Fixes
Enhancements
Tim Kutcher
Founder
October 1, 2024

đź“‹ Overview

Anvilor 1.17 & 1.18 included lots of enhancements that improve both the end-user form data entry experience, as well as gearing up for the enhancing of Anvilor as a “platform” for improving the builder experience. One of the goals we’ve identified is to ensure Anvilor can service as a functional platform with convenient tools for both collection, as well as subsequently managing & viewing collected data with intelligent reporting tools.

There has been lots of “behind-the-scenes” work on this front that we can’t wait to release and start using in our solutions! For now, I can leave you with some of the updates we have released.

🚀 Key Updates

Form Enhancements

We enhanced our form capabilities for date controls to use a fully-responsive calendar picker that renders based on whether the user device supports touch. This helps ensure simple and accurate date entry no matter what device the form is being rendered on, and it integrates with the device’s native date entry to allow for standard & efficient date entry.

Anvilor Mobile Datepicker

We also enhanced the design of our Auction forms to better present bidders key information needed in a clean and comprehensive manner. This improves the experience for bidders and allows for better management and placing of bids!

New Bid Item View

 We also had a few "fixups" on forms for

  • Address autocomplete properly setting "place name" in addition to other detailed items like the address "county", etc.
  • Properly showing/hiding of next/previous buttons in "Stepper" form layouts that

Arbitrary Custom-Rules

We introduced a new tool for running arbitrary “scripts”. With this, AppSmiths are able to build completely custom solutions that allow for on demand:

  • Sending of email communications
  • Operating on a set of Anvilor Form Responses
  • Webhook integration to communicate with other services and other custom programs
  • and more!

complete with tracking/logging, error handling, and

🔎 Looking Ahead

Throughout the next several sprints, Anvilor will be introducing features that fuel the platform’s ability to visualize and get insightful reports from data, make it easy to model & validate data, and orchestrate more complex workflows for

-Tim Kutcher (Founder)

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