what's new in HCL leap 9.1?

The latest release of HCL Leap is out and includes numerous updates which make it easier for designers to create more engaging applications.  Go to the HCL Leap Sandbox to see a demo of all the new features or head directly to What’s New with HCL Leap 9.1.
 
The most significant area of improvement is with PDF handling.  Application designers can now specify where to store filled PDFs. This can be any non-root directory location that the user has write access to.  The new feature allows Leap to pass filled PDFs off to network locations that are then synchronized with downstream content systems.  Other PDF handling improvements include the ability to map Leap table data to PDF “tables”, and the ability to flatten filled PDFs into read-only documents.
 
Leap tables saw some improvements as well.  File attachments now show in the table grid.  Users can view and download attachments without opening the record by simply clicking on the file name in the table grid.  Table column widths and titles can now be dynamically set through a new JavaScript function.  The new function is useful when needing to adjust column widths and titles for multi-lingual, device specific and printing use cases.

Designers will find many new features for building applications like:
·         The ability to control white-space and line breaks in hover text and text items. 
·         A new middle stage called Submitted is now the default for all new applications.  Unlike End stage, this new default provides users in the admin role with a convenient way to update data after its initial submission or import. 
·         A new function was introduced which allows you to fetch a user’s location – giving designers the ability to do geolocation within Leap’s secure JavaScript mode. 
·         A service configuration option was added to that allows you to block user input until a service is complete.  This provide in many cases a more graceful approach to pre-population of choices based on user selections.
·         The ability to work within an ElectronJS app was added allowing you to essentially deploy Leap apps as desktop apps.
 
There are more features in the release than are listed here - so head to the demo and give them a look!
 
The HCL Leap team is just getting started.  HCL Leap 9.2 and other new release will be here before you know it.  Please feel free to drop us a note with what you would like to see in a future release of the product!