30/03/2011 - Automatically Fixing Relations After Migration from other Systems

Users can now speed up their process of migration from other platforms and systems into WOLF using the newly added properties which automatically fix the relations among Entities.

On creating a Relation between Entities in the Designer, two properties are available to you:

• Field - A Field from the current Entity which represents the foreign key.
• Related Field - A Field from the related Entity. This is usually the older ID of the related table. When importing from other systems, this would have to be specified.
• Publishing this Entity will cause the data to be resolved and ready to use within the WOLF environment.

This feature will speed up migrations from other systems significantly.

02/02/2011 - Accessing and controlling the information of the File Attachments

Users can now access the attachment information and also delete attachments using Business Rules. This is achieved by trapping the File Upload event. A new feature has been added to the Business Rules in the Designer and can be applied every time a file is attached to a Form.

The details of the attached files can be accessed using the system defined variables: FileName, FileSize, FileType, etc. The other detail available during this event is the Entity’s internal uniqueid.

To delete attachments through Business Rules, users need to use the newly added option in the Business Rule Designer; Delete File Attached to a record. This will require the attachment name and uniqueid of the record.

06/01/2011 - Single Attachment in Forms

Many applications require the ability to control the number of attachments added by users. In addition to disabling/enabling attachments for forms, you can now also control the number of attachments that the user can add.

This property is available at the Entity level and can be different for different forms in the WOLF application. This is a client user interface feature and can be overridden by direct API calls to add attachments.

20/12/2010 - Sign Out Redirect

This feature will benefit application designers and developers who want to customize the login page of their WOLF SaaS applications. On signing out of an application, you can redirect a user to a specific URL of your choice. This property is available at the solution level and can be simply specified as a property in the Designer.

15/12/2010 - Auto-creation of Navigation Items with the creation of a Search Screen

A Navigation Item in the WOLF Designer is now automatically created and linked to a Search Screen of an Entity. The Navigation Item has the name of the Search Template and is automatically categorized under the Category of the associated Entity.

As soon as you create a Search Template in an Entity and Publish it, the linked Navigation Item is created for you.

If a Navigation Item is already linked to that Search Template, then a duplicate does not get created.

Additionally, if the Entity is not assigned a Category, the Navigation Item is classified under the “General” Category.

14/12/2010 - Prevent duplication of “On Save” Business Rules

A Business Rule that gets called every time a record is saved in an Entity is called an “Every time the Entity is saved” or “On Save” Business Rule.

A check has been added at the Business Rule compilation stage that prevents multiple “On Save” Business Rules from acting on the same Entity. This feature prevents the user from creating duplicate "On Save" Business Rules for an Entity.

An Entity in the WOLF Designer can have only one “On Save” Business Rule and multiple “Unspecified” Business Rules.

25/11/2010 - “My Account” summary with User numbers & data storage across apps.

The “My Account” page is the landing page for your WOLF account and gives you an overview of all your WOLF applications and their statistics.

The “My Account” page now displays a complete summary of the Applications, User numbers and data storage in your WOLF account.

Additionally, the “My Account” page will display a System Alert if you have exceeded the User limit and/or data storage limit of your selected business plan.

11/11/2010 - Pagination of Search Screens

The pagination of Search Screens the in WOLF Runtime lets the Users view a page-wise listing of records in the Search Screen.

The pagination is configured to show 10 page numbers at a time and also displays the total number of records present.

22/10/2010 - The “My Info” user option

Users can now directly edit their information after logging into a WOLF application.

The “My Info” page appears in the top-right corner of the application and can be used to add or edit user information. You can add/edit your photo, name, email ID as well as change your login credentials.

18/10/2010 - Automating record deletion using a Business Rule.

Users can now automate the deletion of Entity records using a Business Rule in the WOLF Designer. To do this, set the Status of a record(s) to "X" in the Update of the Business Rule.

This feature allows the User to automate the deletion of records, conditionally delete records and perform a bulk deletion of records.
Remember that the data will be permanently deleted and cannot be retrieved unless Application backups are used.
To summarize there are now 3 statuses

O – Default for all records
D – For records deleted but still physically present
X – For records to be physically deleted

11/08/2010 - Images in search templates

Users can now add and display images directly in Search Screens.

This feature can be configured from the Search Screen’s Properties in the WOLF Designer. You can do this by checking the “Show Default Image” property of the Search Screen.

28/06/2010 - Enhanced User Interface without Pop-ups

Thank you for choosing WOLF as your preferred OnDemand Platform-as-a-Service provider for developing, delivering and using your business applications.

Today we introduce a new version of WOLF Platform with rich HTML-based ready templates without pop-ups. Earlier, you would need to sign-in using a pop-up. All detailed and search templates would also work as pop-up screens which is not the case anymore. All pop-ups have been removed which paves the way forward towards releasing support for all major browsers such as Apple Safari and Google Chrome. You can now design & release your own SaaS applications to work on iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, etc.

Notice, we have also added an option in the Edit Screen for you to add pictures and save as 'Default Image' which adds a thumbnail preview automatically. We feel this is one more way to increase productivity, drive higher usability & adoption.

Check out our solution gallery to test drive some of the WOLF demo applications. This release is now officially available for all User Plans. Hope you'll enjoy it!

05/03/2010 - Movement of Fields across Sections

Users can now move a Field of an Edit Screen across its different Sections in the WOLF Designer.

The “Move up” and “Move down” buttons allow you to perform this operation.

However, this has only been enabled for the Default Edit Screen.

05/02/2010 - Sorting of combos

Users can now sort the order in which data appears in a combo/dropdown.

In WOLF, combos always have two values associated with them – a stored value and a displayed value - both of which get stored in the database and are accessible through a Business Rule. Earlier, the combo data was displayed in the order in which it has been entered and to perform a sorting of the data, a Business Rule was needed.

The “Use for Sorting” property allows you to use a field for defining the sorting order of a combo in the WOLF Designer.

07/01/2010 - Auto Sign out

There has been a problem once you opened an application using run.wolfframeworks.com and did not sign out and tried to open another one. You were automatically signed into the previous application.

With the release of this new feature, this does not happen anymore as you are now signed out as soon as you close the window or refresh the screen. This implies that F5 or ctrl+F5 will now need a re-login.

26/11/2009 - WOLF adds iPhone support to its Platform-as-a-Service Framework

Wolf Frameworks, a leading Cloud Computing & Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Venture, today announced the official support for iPhone mobile devices. SaaS applications built using WOLF PaaS now enjoy the ability to work seamlessly on the Apple iPhone mobility platform and serve the needs for customers who require constant analytics, mobility and higher productivity at zero extra cost.

Demand for instant access to mission critical business process data and analytical dashboards have been growing worldwide. Delivering line of business applications across a large spectrum of channels such as the browser, mobile, kiosk and eventually wearable computing opens up the whole different possibility for users developing next generation SaaS applications on WOLF PaaS.

Partners who are focused around developing apps for the iPhone user community can now tap into our zero code - point & click WOLF environment to rapidly design & enable SaaS applications for a variety of business analytical scenarios.

03/09/2009 - Perform actions on selected records in a Search Screen

You can now perform actions on select records in a Search Screen.

To enable this for a Search Screen, you would need to check the “Show Check Boxes” from its Properties in the WOLF Designer. The action to be performed needs to be specified in a Business Rule and then linked to a Custom Task in the Search Screen.

10/08/2009 - Introduction of Calculated Fields

As the name itself implies, Calculated Fields hold calculations or computations based on the Fields of an Entity and can be displayed or used in Business Rules for further processing.

Calculated Fields once added be used in Search Screens, Reports, Record Filter Conditions and Grouping.

The Calculated Field can be added similar to a regular Field in the Designer – i.e. in an Edit Screen, the difference being you cannot feed data into it (since its calculated) and it needs to have a formula associated with it.

29/07/2009 - Including text in the Columns of the Advanced Search and For-each Actions

Users working with the Advanced Search and For-each Actions of a Business Rule can now include a custom value in the Column name itself.

This method is at least 100 times faster than the previous one with speeds increasing with the size of data.

22/07/2009 - Controlling the List Size in a Page

Users can now personalize the List sizes of a Page by making a configuration change in the Runtime. This feature allows you to set a default value for all the lists in your application.

This feature lets you increase or decrease the list size of the the records that appear in a Page.

This feature is not applicable to lists that are driven out of Business Rules.

22/07/2009 – Introduction of “If-Then-Else” Actions

The “If-Then” Action in Business Rules has been updated to the form “If-Then-Else”. However, it is perfectly fine to leave the contents of the ELSE block empty.

All previously added “If-Then” statements have automatically been updated to the “If-Then-Else” format.

15/07/2009 - Version Synchronization

WOLF Frameworks, a leading Cloud Computing & Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Venture, today announced the version synchronization feature. This property allows all dependent applications to sync up with your current application. The designer of the design app only needs to set the "version date" property for the "Solution" node in the designer. Refer to the screen shot below.

Remember this only solves the problem of design changes, i.e., database updates etc.

03/07/2009 - User Count visible on login

WOLF, today introduces a new feature to display the count of all users across all applications for a particular account in My Account page.

Once you login to your account, the 'My Account' now shows no. of users for all individual applications as well as total users across all your applications.

02/07/2009 - Formatting Emails using Business Rules

Users can now standardize the format of Emails sent from their WOLF SaaS application

Previously when using a Business Rule to send an email, every HTML tag in the “Send Email” Action had to be prefixed with the CSS formatting.

With the introduction of this feature, users can specify a Default Style for applying a uniform formatting to the entire email.

02/07/2009 - Single click Application Design and Database backup

Users can now obtain a backup of their Application Design and Database with a single click in the Designer. The database backup is in a RDBMS format and the design is in a highly readable & portable XML format. Giving this option in the Application Designer means that you are free to take a backup as often as you wish.

Remember that larger databases will take a longer time but it is always a good practice to take backups once in a while.

In addition to this, WOLF has automated the backup schedules and maintains a repository of all applications and their data.

11/06/2009 - WOLF releases chart control for creating smart visual analytics

WOLF, the standards compliant cloud computing Platform for designing & delivering business applications, today released their charting control which also supports Google Charts APIs. WOLF Platform-as-a-Service Technology assists Entrepreneurs, Application Developers, IT Service Providers and Business Leaders to get their customized Business Applications developed 70 percent faster on the cloud at less than half the cost.

Visualization of Data adds a new degree of usability to your Wolf based SaaS Application and we have activated various types to provide a lot more options: Line Chart - Horizontal Bar Chart with multiple bars - Horizontal Bar Chart with stacked bars - Simple Pie Chart - 3D Pie Chart - Radar Chart, etc.

Charts have been the most requested feature from our existing customers and we are happy to release the functionality. We see a growing demand for Business-Analytics-as-a-Service and will now be able to help our customers in developing visually rich SaaS application rapidly using our new charting control and advanced technical code free Business Rules Engine