Various platform enhancements have been released since the last update in September, small tweaks but making a big difference in usability for some people.

Mapping improvements

• The initial map zoom will cover all points displayed
• A ‘locate me’ option at the top right of the map will immediately zoom it to your current location (if you allow the application to know your location when prompted)
• Map markers and legend names have improved contrast and legibility
• Other usability improvements have been made such as disabling scroll to zoom (the onscreen controls or double clicking will still zoom)
• Markers without a category are now assigned a colour and included in the legend as ‘(unknown)’

PDF document generation improvements

• When setting up a workflow to generate a PDF file, you can now specify a ‘zoom’ option, to allow easy control over the size of text and content
• Generated documents can now contain pivot tables. Along with the existing ‘htmlTable’ and ‘htmlTableTransverse’ templating functions, adding the new ‘htmlTablePivot’ function allows for a great range of ways in which data can be displayed.
  
  An example is the use in the NPDtech product for food manufacturers, to display separate sets of nutritional information for different packaging options

User interface improvements

• A tab in Agilebase contains ‘child’ items, which belong to the main record on screen. For example, a recipe record may contain a tab for ingredients.
  
  However, sometimes a child row contains data from many different tables. The ingredient line may contain data from the actual ingredient, a separate table of nutritional information etc. Agilebase now gives the user the ability to navigate to *any* of these related items when clicking on the arrow next to a child row.

Developer improvements

• The list of views now contains a column to show all the field names in the view, so you can easily search for which views contain a certain field or calculation
• When adding a view from a table manually, you’re required to select a tile to put it in first (this step was often missed by new users)
• The process of getting started with building a basic user interface has been made more intuitive. When you add a table, a tile with the same name is automatically created and when more than a few fields have been added to the table, the system automatically creates a view containing those fields, and adds the tile to their homepage.
  
  That means the developer doesn’t have to do anything extra to see the interface for viewing and editing records, after creating the table.