November Kintone product updates will take effect on November 10, 2024.
Overview
New Features
Feature Improvements
API Updates
Other Updates
New Features in Development
- Enhanced Table Row Management: Improved Add and Delete Buttons for a Better User Experience!
- Introducing UPSERT Operations in the Kintone REST API: Update or Add Records Seamlessly
Update Options
New Features
Introducing Maintenance Mode: A New Feature in Our App Management Toolkit!
Kintone introduced Maintenance Mode, which allows administrators to make apps private temporarily. This addition ensures that regular users cannot access the app while the administrator performs essential updates and checks.
Users will be notified that the app is unavailable, while admins can easily access and modify settings.
Maintenance Mode simplifies putting widely used apps into maintenance, enhancing overall management and operational efficiency.
App Page with Maintenance Mode Enabled:
App Settings Page with Maintenance Mode Enabled:
- When the app is in maintenance mode, all functions for regular users are disabled. Users will also be unable to view records through other apps (such as those found in Related Records) or perform any record operations (display, add, edit, or delete) via the REST API.
- Currently, a new feature is being considered that would allow app administrators to check and update records even while the app is in maintenance mode.
Feature Improvements
The Kintone development team is overhauling the front-end architecture to enhance the speed of future product improvements. The front-end architecture revamp includes updating the design and layout of the settings pages.
In the November updates, the front-end platform for various pages in the Kintone Marketplace (App Template Library) was refreshed, and several layout components were modified accordingly.
Kintone Marketplace Page After the Revamp:
API Updates
A new feature in the REST API simplifies the management of inline editing permission settings for record list views in Kintone app settings.
Users can now easily retrieve and update these permissions through the API, allowing them to update settings for multiple apps at once.
This enhancement provides increased flexibility and control, making managing inline editing permissions across Kintone apps easier.
For further details on this development, please visit the developer network at https://kintone.dev/en/news/api-updates/2024-11/.
Other Updates
Streamlined Department Management in Kintone
The Departments & Users page has been enhanced to simplify identifying users across multiple departments.
You can now conveniently scroll through the list of departments, simplifying the management of departmental user actions.
This update is designed to increase efficiency, especially when dealing with a large number of departments.
Our Kintone development team is constantly working on new features.
These new features will be added to Kintone's New Features in Development without your prior notice.
However, you can enable the new features by navigating to Kintone Administration, selecting Update Options, and deciding on New Features in Development settings. This gives you complete control over the features you want to enable, as they will not be enabled automatically.
Enhanced Table Row Management: Improved Add and Delete Buttons for a Better User Experience!
A new design for the add and delete buttons in table rows improves row management on the record editing page, making it easier to use without needing to scroll.
Previously, users had to navigate to the far right of the table to access these buttons, which was inconvenient, especially for larger tables.
With this update, the buttons are always visible, allowing for effortless item addition while entering data.
To take advantage of this feature, please enable it in the update options.
Current Design: Users must scroll to the right edge to add a new row.
Updated Design: The add button is now permanently placed, allowing users to add rows without scrolling to the right edge.
The REST API now supports UPSERT operations, allowing users to update existing records or add new ones if no matching record is found. To perform UPSERT operations, use the batch update REST API in UPSERT mode.
If a matching record is found, it will be updated; if no match is found, a new record will be created.
For example, suppose you want to synchronize customer information from another system with the Kintone customer database app. In that case, this method allows you to update an existing customer record or add a new one in a single API call.
Note that this feature needs to be enabled in the update options settings.
Update Options
Update Options is a tool that allows administrators to control how Kintone updates are applied. Administrators can choose when to roll out updates to their team using the options.
To access Update Options, click the gear wheel to the left of the search bar and select Kintone Administration. Select Update Options under Other.
For November the following features will be applied to the Update Options:
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Disable New Features* |
New File Import Method |
This feature can be disabled until the February update is released |
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| Streamline Your Record Editing Process with Double-Click Editing | |||
| Obtaining App Icon URLs with JavaScript API | |||
| Improved API Access for Field Settings and New API Capabilities for Accessing Referenced App Information | |||
| NEW Introducing Maintenance Mode |
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| NEW Streamlined Management of Inline Editing Permissions in Kintone |
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| NEW Revamping Front-End Architecture: Kintone Marketplace |
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Preview New Features |
Specification Changes for JavaScript API's Language Property |
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New Features in Development* |
Kintone System Administration Gets a Design Infrastructure Update to Enhance Development Efficiency |
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* You can find the latest updates on the Update Options page in Kintone System Administration. These updates may occur outside of regular updates.
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