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Thoughts and ideas on how to build tools, automate workflows and speed-up the workplace.
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
What is an API Call?
API calls are one of the basic tools we can use for all kinds of development, integration, data sharing, and digital transformation projects. Whether we’re building solutions from scratch or simply hooking up a couple of SaaS tools - we’re probably going to need to make API calls. Today, we’re going to guide you through everything you need to know. We’ll start with what API calls are, what they’re used for, and how they work.
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 28, 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
14 Tips for Professional Table UI Design (+ 6 Shortcuts)
The humble table is the core of almost any data-centric app interface. Table UI design is central to how your users find, view, and interact with all kinds of information. With such a fundamental role in your tools, the design of your tables and the screens that contain them can have an outsized impact on your overall user experiences. Today, we’re going to look at some of the top ways you can design your tables for maximum efficiency, usability, and effectiveness.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 27, 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
How to Build a REST API GUI in 4 Steps
If you need a simple and flexible REST API GUI, you’ve come to the right place. REST APIs are incredibly useful. They allow you to interact with services and sites without scraping them. You can just access a URL, send some parameters and get a response. But when it comes to building your apps and actually communicating with them, things can get tricky. Sometimes they won’t respond as you’d expect. It can get quite tricky to pinpoint where the issue is- with your code or the API itself.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 23, 2024