Notes from the platform.
Product news, implementation notes, and technical updates.
The query builder — composing data slices visually
In most applications, the filter panel is where power users live and also where platforms run out of expressiveness. "Status is Open" and &q...
Views — the right lens on your data for every role
The same set of records serves very different people. The sales team wants to see deals as a kanban moving across pipeline stages. The accountant want...
The table view — still the workhorse, even in the kanban era
Users spend more time in tables than in any other viewer, and that's not changing soon. Kanban boards are wonderful for pipelines. Calendars are unbea...
Object relationships — because business data isn't flat
A customer has contacts. An order has line items. A project is assigned to several people, and each of those people is assigned to several projects. B...
The rich text editor — content with a little room to breathe
Plain text is fine for a subject line or a status code, but it isn't the right tool for most of the places people actually write. Meeting notes, task...
Localization — the platform speaks your users' language
"Add Spanish support" sounds like a single task until you've tried to do it properly. Translation touches every label on every screen, every...
Forms that feel designed — the visual form builder
Forms are where users spend most of their day. They are also, too often, where applications go to die: long scrolling lists of every field anyone ever...
A rich property library — because business data isn't just "text"
A word processor gets by with one kind of text. A platform that serves real businesses needs twenty kinds of field. The difference between "we ca...
Inline expressions — logic that doesn't need a developer
Every real application has a layer of rules that lives uncomfortably between "configuration" and "code." Show this field only if t...
The object model — the foundation the platform is built on
Most teams shopping for business software face the same uncomfortable choice. On one side sits the off-the-shelf tool that handles maybe sixty percent...