ApiOmat Studio

Built for designers, ApiOmat Studio provides all the tools to quickly piece together iOS apps (Android & web apps coming soon).
Gain start up speed and give lines of business, departments, and designers the only tool to build native apps and digital services for their customers, without IT complexity.
Deliver rapid prototypes and digital services in hours and launch apps in as little as a day to digitalize how employees, customers and partners interact with your business.

• Design apps tailored to your use-case

• Generated native source code is 100% accessible

• Supports all popular devices

• Huge selection of native UI elements

• Direct connection to the app backend

• Free of charge: Included in ApiOmat 2.6

New password policy configuration

Security and compliance guidelines are the Achilles heel of every IT infrastructure. Often it's the IT department's responsibility to ensure the security.
The new password configuration file supports the administration and guarantees individual compliance and data security policies, such as minimum password length, expiration, special characters and many more:

• Configure your own system-wide password policy, including:

  • rules of minimum and maximum password lengths

  • rules of specific characters like digits, uppercase letters and special symbols

  • rules of forbidden last passwords and forbidden text parts (username, regEx)

  • rules of password expiration incl. sending reminder emails

  • rules for handling wrong login attempts and temporary account black listing

• New REST endpoints to log in customers and organizations supporting the new password policies, see ApiDocs

• Generate one-time passwords via Dashboard

• Define different password policy configurations for technical and common accounts

For more details see Password Policy.

New ways for handling static data (images/files)

• New REST endpoints for attaching images/files to objects, see ApiDocs

  • In the past you had to 1) upload the image/file with a POST request and then 2) save the returned data URL in the object and send a PUT request with the object

  • Now you can just send a POST request to the new REST endpoint and both steps get done automatically

  • Same for DELETE

  • When a request gets sent to one of these new REST endpoints, the below mentioned new hook methods get executed

• New hook methods for handling images/files that are attached to objects, see Hook Classes

  • Transient: doPostData(), doGetData(), doDeleteData()

  • Non-transient: beforePostData(), afterPostData(), beforeGetData(), afterGetData(), beforeDeleteData(), afterDeleteData()

  • These hook methods get executed when a request gets sent to the above mentioned new REST endpoint

  • Allow you to inspect, transform, replace images/files

• New object methods for handling attached images/files in Native Modules, see Accessing Data

  • obj.addReferencedData(), obj.GetReferencedData(), obj.DeleteReferencedData()

  • Calling these methods trigger the above mentioned new hook methods

Also see Images and Files.

Check the health of modules

Checking the funcionality of your modules is now very easy. The native module health check supports admins to deliver a fail-safe system and gives a quick overview of the health of your backend and your modules. Implementing the new health check method allows native modules to return integer values for specific module states:

• Implement the checkHealth method in the native module, which can e.g. check if an connected system is responding.

• By definition, -1 means no health check is implemented and 0 means "OK". All other values can be defined by the developer itself.

• This health check has an rest endpoint which can be used by every customer having the READ_HEALTH role.

• The health status of a module is also displayed in the ApiOmat Dashboard:

  • Get a quick overview on the left side of the module and class menu

    

  • Or update the health status of a specific module:
    

Also see Health Checks.

New modules in Marketplace

New modules expand the range of services in ApiOmat: Access data with the new OData Connector from any client or server library by using the OData protocol, generate PDF files (like invoices, tickets or forms) and connect to other folders in your ApiOmat network.

Rebrand the dashboard with an individual color scheme

According to your requirements the ApiOmat Dashboard is now adaptable to your companys CI and brand guidelines.
With the color scheme comes a new way to customize the look of the Dashboard and rebrand it. There is now the possibility to upload a logo, configure displayed links and set colors of specific dashboard UI components.

E.g. changing the colors of the left side menu can look like this:

For more information, see here.

Important and breaking changes