April 2026

UX Features

Lightbox Preview for Images in Info Boxes

Images in an Info Box are scaled down to fit inside the box. With this update, users can now click the scaled image to open it in a lightbox and view it in a larger format.

Status Tags on Menu Items

Status tags help communicate the state of individual menu items. They can indicate, for example, that a feature is in Beta or has known Issues. The New tag can be used to highlight particularly noteworthy additions, but applying it to every new item may feel overwhelming for users.

New Components

Text Extractor Component

The new Text Extractor component extracts text from PDF, Word, and Excel files. The output is intended for use in RAG workflows, where you will normally need to chunk the text and convert it to embeddings.

For PDF documents with complex layouts, the extracted text may appear in a jumbled order. This is usually fine for AI processing but makes the output less suitable for human readers.

For structured import of Excel data, use Excel: Import mode instead.

Security and Login

Less Frequent MFA Prompts

When a system uses email-based login verification (enabled through LoginRequiresEmailVerification), users are normally required to verify each time they sign in.

The setting LoginRequiresEmailVerificationEveryXDays reduces how often users must complete email verification for a given browser. After a successful verification, the system will not require another verification from that browser until the configured number of days has passed.

Regardless of this setting, users must still re-verify in the following situations:

1. Their password has been changed.
2. They previously entered an invalid password during the same login attempt.
3. The browser has been reset (cleared cookies, private/incognito mode, or similar).
4. The login occurs from a new browser or device.

More Robust Login for OpenID and Entra ID

Some browsers use tracking-protection features that can interfere with logins that rely on OpenID Connect. This update makes the login process more reliable even when such protections are active.

Developer Tools

Guides

The guide API has support for creating field information, using SoftadminGuide.FieldInfo_Create.

The "Search, New, Edit, Delete, Detail view"-guide can now create field information.

Database Designer

Added support for fixed lookup values in table content creation.

Allowed editing columns even when indexes exist.

Added support for reordering columns in metadata.

Improved handling of foreign keys and constraints in database designer.

Some meta data from Database Designer has been made available for developers, mainly for guide development. See SoftadminDatabaseMetaData.DatabaseTable and SoftadminDatabaseMetaData.DatabaseColumn