February 2025

New Features

New Component: Inline Document

The new Inline Document component allows users to view documents directly in the web browser.

Supported document types depend on the browser. Most desktop browsers support PDF and text documents, but not RTF or Word documents. Attempting to display a document that the browser does not support will download it instead.

The component optionally allows the user to browse multiple documents.

New Control: Date Range

The new Date Range control supports entering closed date ranges using a single field or parameter.

Link List

The Link List component has new features.

Featured Menu Items and Group Descriptions in Menu Group Mode

In Link List: Menu group mode now supports adding descriptions to subgroups, and the ability to feature menu items, like a normal menu group.

Badge Count in Menu Group and Link List Mode

Links in Link List: Link list mode and Link List: Menu group mode can now display counters.

Small Link Cards

Link List: Link cards mode now supports Large, Medium, and the new Small size.

Force All Info Boxes into a Single Column

You can control how Info Boxes are divided between columns using the BreakOnnColumns special columns. Previously, any break after the last box was ignored. Now, a final break will force all boxes into a single column.

		SELECT 'Box a' AS Title, 'a' AS plaintext
		SELECT 'Box b' AS Title, 'b' AS plaintext
		SELECT 'Box c' AS Title, 'c' AS plaintext
		SELECT 1 AS BreakOn2Columns
		SELECT 'Box d' AS Title, 'd' AS plaintext

		SELECT 'Box a' AS Title, 'a' AS plaintext
		SELECT 'Box b' AS Title, 'b' AS plaintext
		SELECT 'Box c' AS Title, 'c' AS plaintext
		SELECT 'Box d' AS Title, 'd' AS plaintext
		SELECT 1 AS BreakOn2Columns

New Features in Enterprise Search

System Icons

Enterprise Search's search results can now display system icons, for example to indicate status of the found entries.

Stop Words

A stop word is a common word that provides little value in searches, such as "and" or "when".

Enterprise Search performance degrades when users search for long phrases, often by pasting full sentences into the search box. Therefore, when a query contains five or more search words, stop words will be ignored.

Stop words are determined by the user's language.

Order by Column

Search results are sorted by weight, with the most relevant results first. You can now configure a specific column to serve as a secondary sorting for an entity. If multiple results have the same weight, they will be ordered based on the chosen column.

Pills for Radio Cards

You can now use custom pills with the Radio Cards control.

You either return just the pill text, or JSON specifying text and color, as the Pill column.

{
    "text": "Insecure",
    "color": "DarkRed"
}

Developer Features

Path to Menu Item becomes Paths to Menu Item

Previously, only the shortest path to a menu item was shown.

You can now view multiple paths leading to a given menu item. Now, all direct links to a menu item are displayed, along with the shortest path to each intermediate item.

Support for Switching Edition

Softadmin® has supported cloud deployment since version 7.11, but converting an existing system between Server and Cloud editions was difficult. You can now do so from inside the system, just like you can download upgrades.

However, edition choice should still be made early in a project, as not all features are available in the Cloud edition.

Debug Output Only for Administrators

Certain components support printing debug output. This used to be a checkbox, either on or off, which works for menu items that usually run as jobs but can be run by an administrator for debugging purposes. It was not ideal for menu items used by normal users.

Now, menu items can be configured to never print debug output, always print it, or print it only for administrators.

BankID Login Intent

The intent explains why the user needs to authenticate.

The BankID component already supports intent in BankID: Identify mode, but previously, intent could not be specified for BankID login.

Now, an intent message can be included during login using language phrase ID 111388.

Audit Log for Deploy Scripts

Deploy Scripts now track their creation date, last update date, and the user who last updated them. This information is only preserved in the development system.

Language Support for Export Bundles

Export Bundles now support exporting from systems with language support enabled. These bundles can be imported into systems regardless of whether language support is enabled in the target.

Database Designer

The Database Designer's read-only mode is still in beta, but all major database-related features are now available.

Import from Map now imports most basic information, including function blocks in the dbo schema.

When viewing a function block, there are new buttons

• Expand Tables – Expands all tables within the current function block but does not affect tables from other blocks.
• Collapse All Tables – Collapses all tables for a clearer overview.
• Autolayout Tables – Automatically arranges tables to prevent overlap.

The public schema SoftadminApi can now be viewed.