Apostrophe 3.6.0: Now with native form builder support 📋🌞

[agilbert]

Hi everyone,

With today's releases, we are excited to share with you a new A3 extension for natively building forms within Apostrophe. The new Form module supports the functionality from the original apostrophe-forms module including:

• flexible management of forms via a dedicated piece type
• support for custom form field types
• the ability to mix other widgets into your forms, including layout widgets
• storing form submission data in a local MongoDB collection
• sending form submission data via email
• support for custom integrations to store form submission data, with a Google Sheets integration as an example

This work was another collaboration with the digital factory team at Michelin. In migrating this module to A3, not only have we been able to improve some of the UI of managing forms, we've also made it even easier for developers to extend and override at the project level. Please note that this first release is tagged a Beta release to allow us to get more feedback on how teams want to extend the core functionality and incorporate that into the module before declaring it Stable.

We look forward to hearing this feedback from your team, either via an issue on the new Forms repo in GitHub or in our Discord.

Meanwhile, this week we're also including 3 new translations for the Apostrophe admin UI - Slovak, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. Check out our documentation to learn how to enable the translations of the UI in your locales, and please see this post if you'd like to contribute a translation in your own language. A big thank you to @Miselrkba, @pietro-rutzen, and @egonzalezg9 for contributing the translations included in this week's release!

As always, read on for the full release notes below, and have a great night.

Apostrophe 3.6.0

Adds

• The context-editing apostrophe admin UI bus event can now take a boolean parameter, explicitly indicating whether the user is actively typing or performing a similar active manipulation of controls right now. If a boolean parameter is not passed, the existing 1100-millisecond debounced timeout is used.
• Adds 'no-search' modifier to relationship fields as a UI simplification option.
• Fields can now have their own modifiers array. This is combined with the schema modifiers, allowing for finer grained control of field rendering.
• Adds a Slovak localization file. Activate the sk locale to use this. Many thanks to Michael Huna for the contribution.
• Adds a Spanish localization file. Activate the es locale to use this. Many thanks to Eugenio Gonzalez for the contribution.
• Adds a Brazilian Portuguese localization file. Activate the pt-BR locale to use this. Many thanks to Pietro Rutzen for the contribution.

Fixes

• Fixed missing translation for "New Piece" option on the "more" menu of the piece manager, seen when using it as a chooser.
• Piece types with relationships to multiple other piece types may now be configured in any order, relative to the other piece types. This sometimes appeared to be a bug in reverse relationships.
• Code at the project level now overrides code found in modules that use improve for the same module name. For example, options set by the @apostrophecms/seo-global improvement that ships with @apostrophecms/seo can now be overridden at project level by /modules/@apostrophecms/global/index.js in the way one would expect.
• Array input component edit button label is now propertly localized.
• A memory leak on each request has been fixed, and performance improved, by avoiding the use of new Nunjucks environments for each request. Thanks to Miro Yovchev for pointing out the leak.
• Fragments now have access to __t(), getOptions and other features passed to regular templates.
• Fixes field group cascade merging, using the original group label if none is given in the new field group configuration.
• If a field is conditional (using an if option), is required, but the condition has not been met, it no longer throws a validation error.
• Passing busy: true to apos.http.post and related methods no longer produces an error if invoked when logged out, however note that there will likely never be a UI for this when logged out, so indicate busy state in your own way.
• Bugs in document modification detection have been fixed. These bugs caused edge cases where modifications were not detected and the "Update" button did not appear, and could cause false positives as well.

Changes

• No longer logs a warning about no users if testModule is true on the app.

Apostrophe 3.x extensions

cli 3.1.0

• Adds a spinner indicator during package install to avoid the impression that the process is failing.

form 1.0.0-beta

• Initial release!

Apostrophe 2.220.7 extensions

Fixes

• Avoid 500 errors when joinByOne field is hidden and required.
• Avoid errors at startup when formerly valid locales for the global doc are in the database, but not part of the current configuration.

Apostrophe 2.x extensions

apostrophe-caches-redis 2.1.4

• Fixes a broken documentation link in the README. Thanks to Antoine Beauvais-Lacasse for the contribution.

apostrophe-forms 1.10.5

• Fixes a bug where only the first input of type "file" was being submitted on form submit. Thanks to Jakub Mirejovsky of Bohemica Studio for the contribution.

apostrophe-site-map 2.6.0

• Introduced a rewriteUrl method, which project developers can override to customize the URLs being output in the sitemap.