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Design Beautiful Apps With the New 'Grid' Drag & Drop Layout

Introducing an easier way to build interfaces with Budibase with the new Grid layout. The Grid layout offers dynamic drag-and-drop functionality, letting you move and resize components across your screen with ease. Creating powerful and visually appealing applications in minutes has never been easier. You can now drag components around your screen and quickly resize them using the anchors on the corners and sides. As shown above, some components, such as tables, expand to fill the full container space.

Jamie Birss

Aug 24, 2024

New Functionality for Superior Ticketing Systems

Budibase is designed to build powerful apps that streamline internal processes and workflows. One workflow that we see come up time and time again is internal ticketing systems, with some very consistent requirements, regardless of what the tickets are tracking. Today, we’re taking these systems to the next level with a new set of features specifically built for users developing these ticketing systems. Whether you work in IT managing support requests, are a developer handling bug fixes, or anything in between, we think you’ll love them.

Jamie Birss

Aug 8, 2024

Unlocking Workflows with Files in Automation

Automations transform standard applications into advanced workflows, bridging the gap between Budibase and your wider tech ecosystem. Today, we’re taking Automations up another level by introducing support for files and attachments. Whether you’re looking to generate and download reports, send documents to and from platforms like DocuSign or PowerBI, or even attach dynamically filled documents to emails, Budibase has you covered. The door has now opened to a range of powerful new workflows that were previously out of reach.

Jamie Birss

Jul 25, 2024

Wrapping up Q2

We spent Q2 delivering several new components and quality-of-life improvements. We also ran our first workshop! Read on to find out more. Modal component Last week, we released the new Modal component. Modals are a great way to focus the app’s interface on a specific experience. The new modal component comes in different sizes, and the design experience is similar to the existing Side Panel component. Kudos to Gerard for developing this great new feature.

Joe Johnston

Jul 3, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Tickets with Budibase and OpenAI

Ticketing systems are some of the most common internal tools there are. They’re central to all kinds of ITSM, HR, finance, ops, and other workflows. However, they can also introduce huge amounts of tedious admin work. This includes basic tasks like categorizing and prioritizing issues, assigning tasks, directing users to self-service resources, and handling communications. Today, we’re checking out how we can use artificial intelligence to drive more efficient ticketing workflows.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 26, 2024

Enterprise Incident Management | In-Depth Guide

Enterprise incident management is, without doubt, one of the most important responsibilities of IT teams in large organizations. This is because IT incidents can potentially have an enormous impact on the wider business. In fact, in extreme situations, it could easily be lights out. Even if it’s not this dramatic, we still risk data loss, service interruptions, and, ultimately, lost revenue. Today, we’re going deep into managing IT incidents in an enterprise context.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 20, 2024

Implementing an Enterprise Data Catalog

Businesses today sit on larger volumes of data than ever before. The benefits of this, including for automation, digital transformation, better-informed decision-making, and even machine learning, are well known. However, managing and administering complex data sets so that they can be leveraged to provide value to end users is incredibly challenging. That’s where enterprise data catalogs come in. Today, we’re diving deep into what data catalogs are, why they’re used, and the specific benefits they bring.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 18, 2024

Enterprise Inventory Management | In-Depth Guide & Key Tools

Enterprise inventory management is the foundation of a huge range of processes across finance, logistics, operations, ITSM, planning, and many more. The core challenge here is achieving a centralized, accessible view of assets, products, raw materials, tooling, and other inventory across our entire organization. Today, we’re covering everything you need to know. We’ll start by checking out the basics of enterprise inventory management and what it achieves. Then, we’ll move on to some of the specific technical challenges that enterprises face when tracking and handling inventories.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 17, 2024