Updates

Here’s your monthly roundup of the top posts and latest news from October. These posts are helpful for you to quickly learn from the knowledge shared last month and stay up-to-date with our Community.As always, thank you to those who contributed with the initial posts, helpful replies, answers or upvotes. In this update: Community News 📢 Deep Dive into the Hackathon Apps Our Next Hackathon Has Launched! New Academy Course What to Watch 🎥 Demos Short Clips Full Events Top Posts ⭐ Featured Insights 📌 Top 10 Questions (Most Viewed / Most Upvoted) 🔥 Community News 📢Our second Hackathon was the primary highlight of the month. Congratulations again to@PriyankaS for winning and to all our finalists. Deep Dive into the Hackathon AppsPriyanka joined@Nick Gamble yesterday on Twitch: You can also see both the demo and the configuration for each of our finalists as well as other participants in our Use Case Showcase forum.  Our Next Hackathon Has Launched! New Academy Course What to Watch 🎥We’re increasingly delivering events and views to supplement the documentation, training, q&a and conversations available to you. Below are the recordings published in the past month: DemosIn addition to the Hackathon demos shared above,  Short Clips Full Events Top Posts ⭐ Featured Insights 📌Thanks and kudos to@Srikanth Dommati for writing up this post: As a reminder, you earn bonus points when you write posts like these. From our questions of the week:Lastly, a message of thanks for not just the Community team, but all who make our Community what it is:   Top 10 Questions (Most Viewed / Most Upvoted) 🔥Thanks to those who asked the questions: @Heena,@Joel__D ,@sangeeta,@Kriti,@Saswata Purohit,@Brady K, @Sandhya Vidhate,@prvn11,@SP20.And thanks to those that provided answers  @Yoganand Vemuri,@Shivkumar Hemke,@MahantaSasmita,@only amar,@Ojaswi Borate,@Sandhya Vidhate,@Ashlin felix.R.   

Today, we are excited to launch our third Unqork Community Hackathon!The TL;DRThis asynchronous competition will take place throughout the months of November and December with a final deadline of January 16 (updated deadline after extensions).  The focus is workflow applications, specifically newer features that enable parallel execution!  Everything else you need to know is available on this event page: F.A.Q.In addition to the details on the event page, below are some anticipated questions you might have. We’ll update this blog with other frequently asked questions as they occur.  Who can participate? Any Creator in our community: customer, partner, Unqork staff, and even those still considering and exploring Unqork. The only requirement is that you have Creator access to an environment. (If you’re able to log in to the Community Hub, you have the right access.)Note: While Unqork staff are welcome to participate, we’ll be limiting the competition to non-staff Creators. You can still earn 100 points for participating and showcase your expertise and creativity if you approve us to share your app with the community.  What’s different from the last Hackathon? Mostly just the topic of our challenge. Last time, we focused on our enhanced grid system; this time, we’re focusing on new workflow functionality that enables multi-player tasks and flows (parallel execution).Additionally, we’re asking all participants to build within the same Community Hackathon workspace within the Training environment.  Why build in the training environment and Community Hackathon workspace? We need to be able to access your application. Applications in other environments are not accessible by our judges and other Creators. Building in the same workspace makes finding and reviewing the applications easier for everyone.  How do I sign up? We’re asking you to sign up via the event page. When you sign up, you’ll receive the link for submitting your application. This helps us know who is planning to submit an application for the Hackathon. It’s helpful in case we need to send you any updates, like if we decide to extend the deadline or if there’s any other guidance we have to give.  Is there a time limit? How much time will it take to participate? We believe you can and should participate in this Hackathon even if you only spend a few hours on your app. While there is no time limit, there’s also no time minimum. If you only have an hour or two to spare, we recommend the steps in the next question. So then, why the long timeline? As an asynchronous competition, we’re allowing plenty of time for you to build your application whenever you have some free time to explore. Whether that means working for a few hours in one sitting or for a few minutes here and there across a few weeks.  Can we participate as a group? No. While I love the idea (it’s Community!), most participants will be building on their own. For fairness in judging, it makes sense to keep all applications to those built by individuals. If we get enough interest and participation, we will explore adding a group category for our next Hackathon.  How do I get started? The primary focus of these Hackathons is to give you a fun reason to explore new functionality and fine tune your skills as a Creator. Getting started means first familiarizing yourself with these new grid components. Sign up via the event page. Review the documentation and other learning resources.  Come up with your application use case. It can be simple; it cam be complex. It can be fun, it can solve a business problem. Whatever use case you can think of to meet the criteria outlined on the event page. Outline your general config. Develop a plan; map out how you might build this application. This will save you time and help you manage the time you spend building. It also might help you earn bonus points, by considering what Marketplace accelerators you can leverage to enhance your application with pre-built functionality.  Start building! Log-in to the training environment and build your application within the Community Hackathon workspace.Who will see my application?Initially, just our judges. But we hope that you’ll opt-in to sharing your application in posts like this on the Community Hub. This will help other Creators learn from your work by examining your configuration and asking questions, or maybe even sharing advice. If you’re chosen as a finalist, many more will see your application on our live showcase event. And the audience gets to choose the winner! It should be noted, others in the training environment will be able to see your application, both as you build and after it’s complete. So if you want to keep it a secret, get creative with how you name it. 😎 Can I submit more than one application? Absolutely! Any submissions received by the deadline will be considered. In fact, I’ll give you 100 points for each application you submit. I don’t think I’ll win, why should I participate? This is a fun way to explore functionality you might not yet have a use case for in your day job. Maybe you’re early on in the build of your application, maybe you specialize with data workflow, but don’t get to configure the UI, maybe you’re part of a large team and don’t get to design or make the big decisions on your apps.With this Hackathon, you get to own every part of building a (small) application, as well as having the freedom to get creative or have fun with your use case!  Okay, but what are the prizes?Each participant will receive 100 points, as well as the Hackathon Participant badge on their Community profile. Finalists each more points, more badges, and more prizes. More details on the event page.  Do you have any examples I can review? Absolutely! If you haven’t yet, consider watching the recordings of our first  and second Hackathon Showcase events. You’ll see our four finalists demo their applications. Additionally, you can watch our winners, @Pushparaj and @PriyankaS explain their winning configuration in more detail on these recordings: Pushparaj & Priyanka.Finally, you can find all four of our finalists’ applications, plus a few others, in our Use Case Showcase forum. These posts include their description, as well as links to review both the configuration and the Express preview of the application.  What if I have other questions? Reply below, send me a message, or email to community@unqork.com

Each month, this post is all about celebrating the many contributions of our community members. Our success depends upon you. Thank you for contributing your questions, ideas, replies, answers, upvotes, and so many more contributions.  Congratulations to our newest Subject Matter Expert! 🎉 As you contribute, you also progress towards earning SME status: the top recognition on our community.In September, @Ojaswi Borate surpassed the 20 answers threshold in addition to earning 200+ points for three months. Please join me in congratulating and thanking them for all they contribute to our community!On the Path to SME Status @Shweta R. Patil - 20 solved answers; 2 months of 200 points @Deepa Boominathan - 11 solved answers; 1 month of 200 points @MahantaSasmita - 10 solved answers; 2 months of 200 points @Sireesha Bandaru - 8 solved answers; 2 months of 200 points @PriyankaS - 6 solved answers; 2 months of 200 points @Chip Davis - 3 solved answers; 2 months of 200 pointsGetting Started ☝These Creators passed the 200 point threshold for the first time. @Deepak Chandrasekaran  @SP20  @Vignesh Umapathy Show your gratitude and help them reach SME status by upvoting their helpful replies and marking answers when they solve your question.  Top contributors on our Community Leaderboard 🏆 These top earners are recognized with new community leaderboard badges. A special shout out to @Laxminarsaiah Ragi who topped both categories for the second consecutive month! 🎖October points leaders @Laxminarsaiah Ragi 1220 - earns gold badge for the second time! @thejasreeb 997 - earns silver badge for the first time! @Deepa Boominathan 698  - earns bronze badge for the first time! @MahantaSasmita 680 @vamsi krishna 597 @Becky 558 @Anjali Deore 496 @Sireesha Bandaru 470 @Ojaswi Borate 425 @PriyankaS 406October answers leaders ✅How do you get to the top of the leaderboard and SME status? Answering questions! @Laxminarsaiah Ragi 15 - earns most answers badge for the fourth time! @thejasreeb 11 @Deepa Boominathan 8 @Shweta R. Patil 7 @MahantaSasmita 6@Ojaswi Borate 6Climb the Leaderboard 🎯Want to see your name listed on this post next month? There are many ways to contribute. Check out these posts:And our latest way to earn points, introduced in September: Feedback welcome  With that, what do you think? Share your feedback in the replies or please contact me directly with a message on the Community Hub or at community@unqork.com. Or better yet? Submit an idea for our Community here on the Community Hub! 

Each month, we share with you the latest additions and updates to our Unqork Platform Documentation. Stay up-to-date and review the latest information to keep your skills sharp. You can find each of these articles and guides in our Documentation Hub which is linked in the Knowledge Base menu and included in federated search here on the Community Hub, or by clicking the Help menu within the Unqork platform (video overview). New DocumentationRelease Notes: Discover what's new and changing on the Unqork Platform with the 6.69 Platform Staging Release Notes.Updated DocumentationYou can now control workspace access to Services with WSRBAC (Workspaces Role-Based Access Control)!  The Services Administration article now includes steps on how to specify which workspaces can access a Service.  Learn what Services features each user role can access in our Creator Role Administration article. The Signal Start Node and Timer Node articles have received new information and updated designs that include the sticky panel look.

Yesterday, three finalists from our second Unqork Community Hackathon demoed their applications and the live audience voted to determine the winner.The ChallengeThis Hackathon was focused around building applications that showcase Unqork’s enhanced grid system from our Spring 2022 Release. More details on the challenge here.  And the winner is...@PriyankaS Suman was voted the winner! Priyanka is an Application Development Specialist at Accenture. Her winning application, Expenso, showed how you can build an expense reimbursement application with no code on Unqork.   @Shivkumar Hemke was voted our first runner up. Shivkumar is a Software Engineer at Marsh McLennan. His application, Happy Hours Resort, showcased complex reservation management from both guest and hotel administration use cases.    Our other two finalists were @Shweta R. Patil, Software Developer at Marsh McLennan Global Services, and @Kavin P, Software Engineer at EY.Please join me in congratulating all four of our finalists! Watch the RecordingThe recording is available here on the Community Hub and on Unqork YouTube channel. Get a Closer LookNext week, we’ll be sharing more details on each of our finalists in our Use Case Showcase forum. Submissions from a few other Creators have already been shared there. You can review both the preview and configuration for each app, as long as video explainers and other information. Check them out!  Stay Tuned for MoreWe’ll also be releasing Power User Spotlight blogs on each of our four finalists. As well as additional articles and videos about this hackathon. And we hope to launch our next Hackathon in early November. Stay tuned to the Community Hub for more announcements and events! 

This month, we are excited to announce the latest release of Unqork with new features that aim to increase Creator productivity and deliver more efficient data processing.More information is available is the 6.68 Platform Release Notes, including:Proposed Production Release Date: November 01, 2022 (as of this publishing)   Module Editor and Components Introducing Address Search - The new default component for capturing and displaying addresses in Unqork! Enhancements to Address v1 and File components. Fixes for Address v2, Button, Dynamic Grid, File Upload, Freeform Grid, Initializer, Number, and Panel components, as well as Module Outline.   Workspaces Workspaces RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) - Available the week of October 18th in Staging and UAT environments Enhancements to Services Permissions Fixes for Workspaces RBAC Workspaces RBAC has experienced a slight delay as we are doing additional testing to ensure this feature can provide the most impact. You can now expect Workspaces RBAC to be released in your environment as part of our staging release scheduled for Nov 9th, unless you are contacted by your CSM about a later release date. Application, Administration, and API Enhancements for Environment Administration and Module Settings Fixes for Creator Role Administration   Workflow Enhancements for Workflow Version History   Marketplace Fixed an issue where the Marketplace link failed to load for users of certain roles. Read the Release Notes For more information on past and upcoming Unqork platform releases See our full Release Notes documentation, including Calendar and Release Notes Process and Software Development Life Cycle Processes.  For enhancement and feature requestsYou can submit an idea and upvote other ideas here on the Community Hub.Or reach out to your primary Unqork point of contact. 

Each month, we share with you the latest additions and updates to our Unqork Platform Documentation. Stay up-to-date and review the latest information to keep your skills sharp. You can find each of these articles and guides in our Documentation Hub which is linked in the Knowledge Base menu and included in federated search here on the Community Hub, or by clicking the Help menu within the Unqork platform (video overview). New Documentation6.68 Platform Release Notes Address Search has taken the place of the Address v2 component. Check out the new features, including geolocation, short-form addresses, and more!  Updated Documentation The Environment Administration article now includes two new settings for improving the security of your workspaces. You can also discover all the best practices for keeping your environment safe. The Start Node and End Node articles received new designs, which include the sticky panel look.   Other Highlights With  WSRBAC (Workspaces RBAC) available in early access, you can learn more about this new feature with the Workspaces Role-Based Access Control and WSRBAC Shared Elements articles.Additionally, two exciting updates from Unqork Academy:  Documentation RequestsWe value your feedback. Reply below with your comments, or consider submitting your documentation ideas and requests here on Community Hub.Learn how:  

We are happy to share that a new self-service course from Unqork Academy is now available: Application Styling Guide.In this course, learn how to modify your application's theme and styles using Unqork’s internal Design Services. The lessons include a mix of both written and video content. Course OverviewIntroduction Styles Development Setup Setting Up Your Local Development Environment Styles Testing Using remoteRootCustomer for Development and Testing Styles Upload and Configuration Uploading CSS to Your Application Uploading a Theme to an Environment Applying Custom Styles and Configuration to an Application Resources Package Contents Explained Notes and Considerations for Designing Applications

Here’s your monthly roundup of the top posts and latest news from September. These posts are helpful for you to quickly learn from the knowledge shared last month and stay up-to-date with our Community.As always, thank you to those who contributed with the initial posts, helpful replies, answers or upvotes. In this update: Community News 📢 What to Watch 🎥 Demos Short Clips Full Events Top Posts ⭐ Featured Insights 📌 Top 10 Questions (Most Viewed / Most Upvoted) 🔥 Most Helpful Posts 👀 Community News 📢 The biggest news is that we introduced a new feature for helping ensure questions get answered (and offering a reward to those who help). Additionally, you have about six weeks left to take advantage of this offer: And we wrapped up the judging period from our latest Hackathon. Be sure to register for our live showcase:  What to Watch 🎥We’re increasingly delivering events and views to supplement the documentation, training, q&a and conversations available to you. Below are the recordings published in the past month: Demos Short Clips Full Events Top Posts ⭐ Featured Insights 📌 Top 10 Questions (Most Viewed / Most Upvoted) 🔥Most of these have marked answers, so take a look at topics you can learn from/Thanks to @SP20, @prabhu, @Brajendra23, @Nishant Agrawal, @prasanna G, @Sreya, @Sumita, @Ankit Rai, and @akhil95 for asking questions that benefitted so many!    And thanks to @Madhura, @PriyankaS, @vaseem, @MahantaSasmita, @Srikanth Dommati, and many others for providing helpful replies and answers! Most Helpful Posts 👀You can mark the helpfulness of questions with marked answers, articles, and on-demand recordings. This helps us identify our best content, as well as posts that might need revisiting for improvement. These posts were scored as the most helpful throughout the month:Kudos to @drew, @Laxminarsaiah Ragi, @Bruce Molina, @Janga srilakshmi, @Kavin, @Charan Ekkurthi, @ajaykumar.sharma03, @Sumit.Fadale, @Mohammed Jasir,  @Ankit Rai, @MahantaSasmita, @RachanaGitaVengala, @Shweta R. Patil, and @Christian Lewis for asking and answering these questions.

From our Unqork Create event website: As the past few years have taught us, those who can quickly pivot and adapt to sudden changes will come out on top.The second annual Unqork Create Awards will recognize and celebrate the developers and leaders spearheading the codeless revolution.Winners will be featured in an exclusive press release in the fall and honored at the 2022 Unqork Create conference in NYC, the Unqork Create Awards will feature companies and individuals.We invite you to submit a nomination for yourself, a colleague, or a company that thinks outside the box and fosters innovative concepts and strategies to push application development into the future.Deadline: Friday October 28th, 2022 at 11:59 PM ETHave a question? Reach out to chelsea.berry@unqork.com  Submit a Nomination Sign up here for updates on Unqork Create and the chance to receive exclusive invites to attend. 

Each month, our Unqork Community continues to grow and thrive. We’re seeing new Creators join, more active users, more contributing users, and higher engagement than ever before. With that, I think we’re ready to try something new. Introducing Monthly Community ChallengesEach month, I will challenge us all to participate in one common focus area. These monthly challenges will be ways earn additional points, but the larger goal is to strengthen our community.What to ExpectYou’ll see a mix of challenge types from ways to level up and sharpen your skills (ex. Hackathons), to new types of conversations to try (ex. TIL), and simple ways to foster relationships and an overall sense of community. You can also expect:Announcements on the first Wednesday of the month. Deadlines of the end of that month (sometimes the day before).  Experiments on new ways for us to connect and engage.October’s ChallengeWe’re going to start simple this time around.Ensure your profile is up-to-date and all 5 fields are completed: Profile Picture Name* Job Title* Company* Location*Deadline: End of day on October 30. (This way you can get your points on the 31st to count towards October totals.)*These fields are all private and only visible to The Unqork Community team. The only public information at this time is your profile picture, username, and join date. Challenge IncentivesEarn 50 bonus points (10 for each field). Only complete profiles are eligible. (Already complete? Double check to ensue your information is right, but you’ll still earn the points!)Additionally, a chance at swag! Community is about the shared success and group contributions. For every 50 Creators that have all 5 fields updated, I will randomly select a Creator to receive an Unqork hat. (Ex. If 200 Creators have complete profiles, I will select 4 winners to receive the hat.)Unqork Expert hatHow This HelpsWhy are we doing this? How does it help strengthen our Community? Two primary reasons: Profile Pictures are the first step towards building more peer-to-peer connects and relationships. Our Community is made of people, not bots. A picture of you (or photo that represents you) helps build connections. That way, someone might recognize your photo on Linkedin when they reach out to connect or, better yet, recognize you when attending an event like Unqork Create.   Complete and accurate profile fields give our team better data for a better understanding of you. (We’ve also updated our registration process over the first year and we don’t have names for everyone in our Community.)In the future, we’ll build new Community Hub features, as well as events and programs based on these two areas. It could be features to help you network on the Community Hub or perhaps user groups and events that connect a specific region or persona. Have an idea for what you’d like to see? You can always submit it here on the Community Hub. 

Each month, this post is all about celebrating the many contributions of our community members. Our success depends upon you. Thank you for contributing your questions, ideas, replies, answers, upvotes, and so many more contributions. September was a record month in nearly every key metric, thanks to your contributions. We’re seeing more Creators than ever actively contributing and helping drive positive outcomes for their peers. Thank you!Congratulations to our newest Subject Matter Expert! 🎉 As you contribute, you also progress towards earning SME status: the top recognition on our community.In September, @vamsi krishna surpassed the 20 answers threshold in addition to earning 200+ points for three months. Please join me in congratulating and thanking them for all they contribute to our community!On the Path to SME Status @Mohammed Jasir  - 16 solved answers; 1 month of 200 points @Ojaswi Borate - 14 solved answers; 1 month of 200 points @Shweta R. Patil - 13 solved answers; 1 month of 200 pointsGetting Started ☝These Creators passed the 200 point threshold for the first time. @akhil95 @Brady K @Chip Davis @Madhumitha589 @MahantaSasmita @Ojaswi Borate @prabhu @PriyankaS @Shweta R. Patil @thejasreebShow your gratitude and help them reach SME status by upvoting their helpful replies and marking answers when they solve your question.  Top contributors on our Community Leaderboard 🏆 These top earners are recognized with new community leaderboard badges. September points leaders @Laxminarsaiah Ragi 1332 - earns gold badge for the first time! @Ojaswi Borate 1317 - earns silver badge for the first time! @vamsi krishna 1313 - earns bronze badge for the first time! @Shweta R. Patil 797 @Anjali Deore 703 @PriyankaS 701 @MahantaSasmita 541 @Magesh Kumar 489 @Mohammed Jasir 453 @Christopher Guzmán 427September answers leaders ✅How do you get to the top of the leaderboard and SME status? Answering questions! @Laxminarsaiah Ragi 16 - earns most answers badge for the third time! @Ojaswi Borate 14 @Shweta R. Patil 13 @vamsi krishna 9@Mohammed Jasir 9Climb the Leaderboard 🎯Want to see your name listed on this post next month? There are many ways to contribute. Check out these posts:And our latest way to earn points, introduced a few weeks ago:  Feedback welcome  With that, what do you think? Share your feedback in the replies or please contact me directly with a message on the Community Hub or at community@unqork.com. Or better yet? Submit an idea for our Community here on the Community Hub! 

Our judges have finished their reviews and we are excited to announce the finalists for our second Unqork Community Hackathon. This time, the challenge was focused around building applications that showcase Unqork’s enhanced grid system from our Spring 2022 Release.The FinalistsCongratulations to these four Creators! 🎉@Kavin, Software Engineer at EY @PriyankaS, Application Development Specialist at Accenture  @Shivkumar Hemke, Software Engineer at Marsh McLennan @Shweta R. Patil, Software Developer at Marsh McLennan Global ServicesThese finalists have each earned 50 more reputation points and a Hackathon Finalist badge on their profiles. Additional perks and prizes will be awarded when we select our winning application and runners up. The Use CasesWe saw a great mix of real-world use cases across the entries, including: Classroom: Student Record Portal Bus Ticketing Hotel Resort Reservations Expense Claims and ReimbursementComing SoonLive Showcase EventFind out which finalist built which app and hear them share their approach on a live showcase event on Wednesday, October 19 at 11:00 a.m. ET. More information and registration here:  Use Case ShowcaseAdditionally, some of our other participants are willing to share their submissions with our community. Over the coming weeks, we’ll share their apps in our new Use Case Showcase forum. We’ll also share the finalists’ submissions after the live event. Stay tuned to the Community Hub for all these details and more!

Each month, we share with you the latest additions and updates to our Unqork Platform Documentation. Stay up-to-date and review the latest information to keep your skills sharp. You can find each of these articles and guides in our Documentation Hub which is linked in the Knowledge Base menu and included in federated search here on the Community Hub, or by clicking the Help menu within the Unqork platform (video overview).New DocumentationRelease Notes6.66 Platform Release Notes 6.64 Platform Release NotesArticles and GuidesDocumentation on Platform Features Chart component Real-Time Configuration Analysis Tool. Workflow Version History Workspaces Role-Based Access Control (WSRBAC) for Shared Elements Best Practices Guides Security Best Practices for Module Configuration  Security Best Practices for Administrative Settings New Glossary EntriesAssets Marketplace Assets Marketplace Application Template Marketplace Integration Template Marketplace SnippetsUpdated DocumentationDynamic Grid component enhanced for “Set Column Widths,” “Freeze Column,” and “Set 0 Width” features. HTML Element component updated with tag and attribute security info and best practices.  KPI component includes new content additions.  Environment Administration article updated to include “Disable Public Access” details. Best Practice: Property IDs updated to warn against using periods in property IDs. Services Administration content updated for Platform process enhancements. Data Backup and Retention content enhanced with security best practices.Documentation RequestsWe value your feedback. Reply below with your comments, or consider submitting your documentation ideas and requests here on Community Hub.Learn how:  

We’re excited to invite our community members to join us for an upcoming Creator Workshop.These 2-hour instructor-led workshops are the perfect place to learn how to leverage codeless architecture to solve your biggest application development challenges. You’ll build your first application using tools such as workflows, dashboards, integrations, and more. Each session will include demos, guided exercises, and an opportunity to ask our trainers questions along the way. These workshops are best for Creators just beginning their learning journey. If you have already achieved Novice, Associate, or Professional Configurator certification, your skills are likely more advanced than the material covered in these workshops. Right now, these workshops are invite only. To register, please use the code creatorworkshop-6ug52c to register for free. Once you register, you’ll be able to see the upcoming dates and choose the one that best fits your schedule.We’re looking forward to getting you on the Unqork platform and help you build your first Unqork application!Note: This offer and promo code are only valid for workshops prior to November 30, 2022

Update: As of September 2023, answering featured questions also helps you earn Answer Hero status. The rest of the below article is still valid. Now, when you see questions listed as featured, you’ll earn bonus points for replies and answers. However, I’d like to back up and start this update talking about all of you, our community members.Background and ContextYou’ve created an amazing, supportive, and vibrant community of Creators helping each other. Because of your contributions, the core experience on Community Hub is pretty incredible: More than 90% of the time, you will receive a reply to your question. About 55% of the time, your question will be answered. The median time to a reply is within a few hours. Most receive a reply within the first few days.These numbers are a large reason why, on average, 97% of our active community members are returning multiple times throughout the month. When you ask a question, there’s a good chance you will receive some help. However, we still have room for improvement. Questions that do not receive a reply in the first 1-2 days often get buried in the feed or lost in the shuffle.  Improvements  Here at Unqork, we’re invested in the success of our Creators, and our community is no exception. That’s why we will continue improving on your experience and driving more answers to your questions. Introducing Featured QuestionsIf a question has gone without a reply for more than a few days, we will now highlight that question as featured and bump it back up to the top of the activity feed. You’ll see the question featured with a bookmark icon in the activity feeds and a slightly different color. When you’re on the question page, you’ll see the Featured label at the top. Example of a Featured Question in the feed or at the top of a ForumThese improvements will help bring featured questions to the attention of experts in our community who may be able to help. Example of Featured Question labels on the question pageIncentives for Answering Featured QuestionsFor those who reply and and provide answers to these featured questions, we’ve added bonus points to say thank you. These points can help accelerate your path to achieving SME status or climbing our community leaderboard. Earn 5 points for each reply. 8 total when combined with the standard 3 points for replies. Earn 10 points when your reply is marked as the answer. 30 total when combined with the standard 20 points awarded for answers. Our GoalsDrive Creator success with helpful replies to questions. Increase our Knowledge Base with more answered questions. Increase the percentage of questions that receive helpful replies.  Improve the time to when questions receive a response.  Accelerate the SME journey for those helping answer questions. What do you think? Please reply below or send me a message with your questions and feedback. Note: After a question is marked as answered, it will no longer be featured and bonus points will no longer be awarded for subsequent replies.

As mentioned yesterday, our robust community activity necessitates two monthly update blogs! This month, we’ve expanded to highlight the top posts. These top posts are your guide to learning from the experiences shared across the month.In this update: Community News 📢 What to Watch 🎥 Demos Short Clips Full events Top Posts ⭐ Featured Insights 📌 Top 10 Questions (Most Viewed / Most Upvoted) 🔥 Most Helpful Posts 👀 Note: Some of the posts embedded below are gated in private forums and may not render a preview. We recommend that viewing this post while logged-in with your community profile.Community News 📢August was a major month as we celebrated our first full year live on the Community Hub and rolled out some new features. We also shared more information on our growing group of Subject Matter Experts, sharing insights on the many companies they represent, their roles, and how you can connect with them. Additionally, we launched our second community hackathon, which wrapped up yesterday. In the next few weeks, we’ll announce our finalists and schedule a live showcase where you vote on the winner. Want to participate in the next one? You can expect our next hackathon to launch in the next few months.  What to Watch 🎥We’re increasingly delivering events and views to supplement the documentation, training, q&a and conversations available to you. Below are the recordings published in the past month: Demos Short Clips Full events Top Posts ⭐ Featured Insights 📌 Top 10 Questions (Most Viewed / Most Upvoted) 🔥Thanks to @User345, @Rashmi Pal, @drew, @Jeevan, @Hemadarshni H, @Supriya Sivaprasad, @prasanna G,  and @divya for asking questions that were popular with Creators in our community.Most of these have marked answers, so take a look at topics you can learn from! Most Helpful Posts 👀You can mark the helpfulness of questions with marked answers, articles, and on-demand recordings. This helps us identify our best content, as well as posts that might need revisiting for improvement. These posts were scored as the most helpful throughout the month.  

This month, we’re breaking our monthly update into multiple parts (and introducing some new topics - stay tuned). With so much going on in our Community, there’s too much for just one update blog!This post is all about celebrating the many contributions of our community members. Our success depends upon you. Thank you for contributing your questions, ideas, replies, answers, upvotes, and so many more contributions. Congratulations to our newest Subject Matter Expert! 🎉 As you contribute, you also progress towards earning SME status: the top recognition on our community.In August, @Ashlin felix.R surpassed the 20 answers threshold in addition to earning 200+ points for three months. Please join me in congratulating and thanking them for all they contribute to our community!On the Path to SME Status @vamsi krishna - 3 months with 200+ points; 11 solved answersGetting Started ☝These Creators passed the 200 point threshold for the first time. @Abhi @Nishant Agrawal @Taito NiiboriShow your gratitude and help them reach SME status by upvoting their helpful replies and marking answers when they solve your question.  Top contributors on our Community Leaderboard 🏆 As announced last month, top earners are recognized with new community leaderboard badges. August points leaders @vamsi krishna 931 - earns gold badge for the first time! @Laxminarsaiah Ragi  744 - earns silver badge for the third time! @Anjali Deore 585 - earns bronze badge for the first time! @Srikanth Dommati 544 @Kavin 543 @Christopher Guzmán 528 @Ashlin felix.R 419 @Madhurika Belsare 379 @Shashank Raj 308 @Nishant Agrawal 294August answers leaders ✅How do you get to the top of the leaderboard and SME status? Answering questions! @Laxminarsaiah Ragi 10 - earns most answers badge for the second time! @Christopher Guzmán 8@Ashlin felix.R 8 @vamsi krishna 7 @Anjali Deore 5@Kavin 5Climb the Leaderboard 🎯Want to see your name listed on this post next month? There are many ways to contribute. Check out these posts: Feedback welcome  With that, what do you think? Share your feedback in the replies or please contact me directly with a message on the Community Hub or at community@unqork.com. Or better yet? Submit an idea for our Community here on the Community Hub! 

Today marks one year since we launched the Unqork Community Hub! We consolidated more than 10 Creator resources into one Hub to connect you to the people and resources you need to be successful.Throughout the year, we’ve seen engagement continue to grow with record numbers of new Creators joining the community, asking questions, solved questions, earning certifications, points, badges, and more. Your participation is what makes our community grow and thrive, so thank you for being a part of a successful first year.  Year in ReviewA lot more has happened throughout the year, but here are some of the major highlights: September: Our first full month on the Community Hub! October: Ideas feature launched at Unqork Create 2021 November: We began posting updates on new Marketplace listings, here’s the latest example:  December: We put the finishing touches on our amazing federated search  January: A few UX improvements:  February: We launched our new Success Hour series. Check out the next one! March: We began publishing regular documentation updates, here’s the latest example:  April: Our biggest month yet with new forums and a major UX update  May: Major improvements to the Documentation Hub and Marketplace experiences. June: We wrapped up our first Community Hackathon!  July: Our intern @Zander Donowitz helped us launch our Contribution Portal!  August: New badges to recognize your contributions and launched our second Hackathon!  Help us celebrate!Reply below with your favorite features or how the Community Hub has helped you over the past year.10 bonus points for each reply!  What next?We’ll continue to add new features to help connect you to the people and resources you need to be successful. Stay tuned to our updates blog for more news and announcement. But what would you like to see? Consider submitting your ideas for the Community Hub and our community programs:  

This Content Has MovedSee our new Subject Matter Expert page for the latest information on our SME program and current SMEs. Finding Unqork ExpertsWhether you’re looking to hire someone for your team, or you’re looking for experts to help you in our Unqork Community, certification from Unqork Academy is the leading indicator of expertise (of course, along with actual experience building on Unqork).Additionally, Subject Matter Expert (SME) status on our Unqork Community recognizes the Unqork Creators who have demonstrated expertise and high impact contributions across many months. Here on the Unqork Community Hub, you will see both certification and SME status highlighted behind usernames and on profiles. This provides context the answers you receive to your questions and replies on conversations; when you see someone is certified and/or an SME, you can trust they have demonstrated a certain level of expertise. What is an Unqork SME? Subject Matter Experts are top knowledge holders and contributors to the Unqork Community. SMEs have demonstrated their expertise via several months of high engagement and many high impact contributions, earning both a high volume of points and providing a large amount of answers to community questions.  SMEs represent about 1% of our total community and 3% of regularly active users. They’re among our most active, engaged, and knowledgeable community members. Learn more: 

See this article and this overview page of Points, Badges, and Recognition for the latest information. The overall content of this remains accurate, but the badge icons were updated on October 2024. In an effort to continually recognize the contributions of our amazing community members, we are excited to announce the launch of 6 new Community Leaderboard Badges! Creators will now be recognized (and retroactively awarded) for earning the most points and answering the most questions in a calendar month. Additionally, we are introducing our two most exclusive badges yet: All-Time Monthly Points Record Holder and All-Time Monthly Answers Record Holder!  How It WorksIf you are particularly active in a given month, you may be a contender for one of our Community Leaderboard Badges! We have created 4 new badges associated with earning the most points and answering the most questions in a given month. Badge Description Most Points in a Month Gold medal! Awarded to the Creator with the most points earned in a calendar month. 2nd Most Points in a Month Silver medal! Awarded to the Creator with the 2nd most points earned in a calendar month. 3rd Most Points in a Month Bronze medal! Awarded to the Creator with the 3rd most points earned in a calendar month. Most Answers in a Month Gold medal! Awarded to the Creator with the most questions answered in a calendar month. NOTE: These badges can be earned multiple times, with each additional star/qork representing another win. When you earn it again, we will replace the badge with the next level that you’ve earned. In addition to these monthly awards, we have also created our 2 most exclusive badges ever: All-Time Monthly Points Record Holder and All-Time Monthly Answers Record Holder! These badges are awarded on an as-earned basis to Creators who have the most monthly points and answers in Community Hub history! Badge Description All-Time Monthly Points Record Holder Title belt! Awarded to the Creator with the most points in a calendar month in Community Hub history! All-Time Monthly Answers Record Holder Title belt! Awarded to the Creator with the most answers in a calendar month in Community Hub history! Think of these as boxing title belts where Creators can compete to dethrone the current leader in a given category. Previous record holders will still be recognized but are encouraged to compete to earn their title back! Getting StartedIf you earn a Community Leaderboard Badge, congratulations! You will receive a celebratory message in your Community Hub inbox and your achievement will be featured in our next Community Monthly Update post!@Srikanth Dommati currently holds BOTH of our All-Time Record Holder badges, with 1,535 points and 20 answers in a calendar month!!! He’s set the bar high, but we will be actively monitoring everyone’s Community Hub activity on a monthly basis moving forward. Good luck, and we cannot wait to award our newest set of Community Leaderboard Badges!

It’s time for another check-in on the latest news from our Unqork Community. In this update (click to jump ahead)July 2022 Highlights   Happening in August 🔮 New Badges to Showcase Community Contributions 🎖 Congratulations to our newest Subject Matter Experts! 🎉 Top contributors on our Community Leaderboard 🏆 Feedback welcome July 2022 Highlights  Community Contribution Portal 🙋🏽Thanks to the great work of our Community and Customer Success Intern, @Zander Donowitz, we built and launched our Community Contribution Portal! This represents an important step towards more of our Community programs being led by you and other Creators in collaborative ways.Learn more here:Fun fact: Zander built this all on Unqork with no prior application development experience, demonstrating how quickly you can learn Unqork and quickly get to value with working applications! Marketplace Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary  🎉We celebrated the first anniversary of the Unqork Marketplace in multiple ways. First, we announced new features and listings added to the Marketplace. Next, we held a Marketplace Takeover of our monthly Success Hour event, featuring an overview of Marketplace news and demos on four Community-inspired Marketplace listings. You can access the recording here on the Community Hub, here on YouTube, or see the use case demos in our Use Case Showcase forum.  New Opportunity 👀 Twice-Weekly Livestreams on Twitch 📺We had our busiest month of streaming yet with our Success Hour simulcast on Twitch and 7 additional episodes with our Chief Evangelist,@Nick Gamble. You can access these recordings here on the Community Hub, as well as our Unqork YouTube channel. And don’t forget to follow Unqork on Twitch! Upvote Webinar Topic Requests 🔺@Zander Donowitz also helped us roll out a new way for you to make your voice heard: upvoting topics you’d be interested to see as webinars, Twitch livestreams, or videos. We’ve taken the topic requests that we’ve received from our Success Hour surveys and added them to our Ideas forum for you to upvote and comment on. Do you have a topic you’d like to see covered on a future event? You can submit your ideas any time; just be sure to select Community as the category for your idea.  Happening in August 🔮As always, stay tuned to our Updates blog for news and announcements, but here are a number of highlights you can expect over the next few weeks.Hackathon 🏆Last week, we announced our second Community Hackathon. This asynchronous competition will run through August 26. This time, the challenge is to build a working application leveraging our enhanced grid system. Everything you need to know can be found on the event page and FAQ article below. All Hackathon participants will earn at least 100 points. Sign up today! Success Hour 🗓We already have the full slate of best practice and use case demos lined up for this month’s Success Hour. In addition to configuration tips that will help improve application performance, we’ll demo two of the newest Marketplace listings.More information and registration: APIs with IPAs with The Uncoder on Twitch 🖥🍺Our Twitch schedule will be a bit lighter this month, but still full of fun and helpful content. The theme for August is “APIs with IPAs.” Each Thursday, join us at 4:30pm ET (note the new time) with an IPA or beverage of your choice as The Uncoder explores a new API each week. You can see the first session, leveraging the Twitch API, here.  New Badges to Showcase Community Contributions 🎖Before we get to our monthly celebration of the amazing contributions from our community members, I’m happy to share a preview of an exciting announcement I’ll be sharing later this week. Now, when you finish in the top 3 in points earned for a month, you’ll receive a special badge to showcase our accomplishment. There will also be different versions of the badges to recognize when a Creator has earned that badge across multiple month. We’ll also have badges to recognize the most answers contributed in a month, as well as all-time records for most points and most answers earned within a month. These badges help recognize contributions to our Community and showcase your expertise. In the future, we plan to build out Community Hub profiles further to help you better connect and network with Unqork Creators.Stay tuned to the Updates blog for more details soon!Extended Indefinitely: Today I Learned ChallengeIn June, I introduced another way to earn points by sharing the insights you learn as you build on Unqork. In July, we extended the challenge and doubled the points. While there has yet to be many posts of this type, it’s still a valuable way for anyone to contribute, so I’m extending this offer indefinitely as another way for you to earn points and progress toward SME status.  Congratulations to our newest Subject Matter Experts! 🎉 As you contribute, you also progress towards earning SME status: the top recognition on our community.In July, FOUR Creators surpassed the 20 answers threshold in addition to earning 200+ points for three months. @Mansi Wadhwani @Nagarjun_Chitteti @only amar @Srikanth DommatiPlease join me in congratulating and thanking them for all they contribute to our community!On the Path to SME Status These Creators are almost there!@Ashlin felix.R - 2 months with 200+ points; 18 solved answers @vamsi krishna - 2 months with 200+ points; 6 solved answersGetting Started ☝These 3 Creators passed the 200 point threshold for the first time. @diksha @Eric Thomas MaShow your gratitude and help them reach SME status by upvoting their helpful replies and marking answers when they solve your question.  Top contributors on our Community Leaderboard 🏆 We continue to see new records for points earned in a month as Creators compete to earn the most points and earn SME status. July points leaders @Srikanth Dommati 1083 - earns new gold badge @Mansi Wadhwani 1055 - earns new sliver badge @Madhurika Belsare 601 - earns new bronze badge @only amar 500 @vamsi krishna 483 @Nagarjun_Chitteti 453 @Ashlin felix.R 378 @Shivkumar Hemke 304 @Magesh Kumar 265 @diksha 252July answers leaders ✅How do you get to the top of the leaderboard and SME status? Answering questions! @Mansi Wadhwani 10 - earns new badge for most answers in a month @Srikanth Dommati 8 @Ashlin felix.R 8 @Ranghanathan 7 @Kristen Stilwell 5Feedback welcome  With that, what do you think? Share your feedback in the replies or please contact me directly with a message on the Community Hub or at community@unqork.com. Or better yet? Submit an idea for our Community here on the Community Hub! 

Updated August 12 with a new extended deadline of September 1. Sign up at any point, but your applications must be submitted by this new deadline.Today, after an incredible first Hackathon this spring, we are excited to launch our second Unqork Community Hackathon!The TL;DRThis asynchronous competition will take place throughout the month of August, which an extended deadline of 6pm ET on Thursday, September 1.  The topic is our newly enhanced grids system, a highlight of our Spring 2022 release.  Everything else you need to know is available on this event page: F.A.Q.In addition to the details on the event page, below are some anticipated questions you might have. We’ll update this blog with other frequently asked questions as they occur.  Who can participate? Any Creator in our community: customer, partner, Unqork staff, and even those still considering and exploring Unqork. The only requirement is that you have Creator access to an environment. (If you’re able to log in to the Community Hub, you have the right access.)Note: While Unqork staff are welcome to participate, we’ll be limiting the competition to non-staff Creators. You can still earn 100 points for participating and showcase your expertise and creativity if you approve us to share your app with the community.  What’s different from the last Hackathon? Mostly just the topic of our challenge. Last time, we focused on using accelerators from our Marketplace; this time, we’re focusing on the three new grids added to our enhanced grid system: Freeform, Dynamic, and Uniform grids.Other small changes include: We’re asking you to sign up via the event page. When you sign up, you’ll receive the link for submitting your application. This helps us know who is planning to submit an application for the Hackathon. It’s helpful in case we need to send you any updates, like if we decide to extend the deadline or if there’s any other guidance we have to give.    We’ve removed the suggested time limit. Last time, we asked that your application could be configured in an hour or less. We learned that was confusing: did you only have an hour? Could you troubleshoot and refine past that hour? What about styling beyond the core functionality? Did planning your app count in your hour? Overall, while most of the apps could be configured quickly, it seems that most participants spent more than an hour fine-tuning their app. Which leads us to…How much time will it take to participate? We believe you can and should participate in this Hackathon even if you only spend an hour or two on your app. While there is no time limit, there’s also no time minimum. If you only have an hour or two to spare, we recommend the steps in the next question. So then, why the long timeline? As an asynchronous competition, we’re allowing plenty of time for you to build your application whenever you have some free time to explore. Whether that means working for a few hours in one sitting or for a few minutes here and there across a few weeks.  How do I get started? The primary focus of these Hackathons is to give you a fun reason to explore new functionality and fine tune your skills as a Creator. Getting started means first familiarizing yourself with these new grid components. Sign up via the event page. (See above for why 🙂) Review the documentation for the grid system. You may also want to review the recordings of our Spring 2022 Release webinar or our Uncoder Twitch stream on grids.  Searching and reviewing questions here on the Community Hub may also help you understand use cases and how best to configure these grids. Come up with your application use case. It can be simple; it cam be complex. It can be fun, it can solve a business problem. Whatever use case you can think of to meet the criteria outlined.  Outline your general config. Develop a plan; map out how you might build this application. This will save you time and help you manage the time you spend building. It also might help you earn bonus points, by considering what Marketplace accelerators you can leverage to enhance your application with pre-built functionality.  Start building! Create a workspace in the training environment or use a workspace you’ve already created. Why build in the training environment? We need to be able to access your application. Applications in other environments are not accessible by our judges and other Creators.  Who will see my application?Initially, just our judges. But we hope that you’ll opt-in to sharing your application in posts like this on the Community Hub. This will help other Creators learn from your work by examining your configuration and asking questions, or maybe even sharing advice. If you’re chosen as a finalist, many more will see your application on our live showcase event. And the audience gets to choose the winner! It should be noted, others in the training environment will be able to see your application, both as you build and after it’s complete. So if you want to keep it a secret, get creative with how you name it. 😎 Can I submit more than one application? Absolutely! Any submissions received by the deadline will be considered. In fact, I’ll give you 100 points for each application you submit. I don’t think I’ll win, why should I participate? This is a fun way to explore functionality you might not yet have a use case for in your day job. Maybe you’re early on in the build of your application, maybe you specialize with data workflow, but don’t get to configure the UI, maybe you’re part of a large team and don’t get to design or make the big decisions on your apps.With this Hackathon, you get to own every part of building a (small) application, as well as having the freedom to get creative or have fun with your use case!  Okay, but what are the prizes?Each participant will receive 100 points, as well as the Hackathon Participant badge on their Community profile. Finalists each more points, more badges, and more prizes. More details on the event page.  Do you have any examples I can review? Absolutely! If you haven’t yet, consider watching the recording of our first Hackathon Showcase. You’ll see our four finalists demo their applications. Additionally, you can watch our winner, @Pushparaj, explain his winning configuration in more detail on this Twitch livestream recording. Finally, you can find all four of our finalists’ applications, plus a few others, in our Use Case Showcase forum. These posts include their description, as well as links to review both the configuration and the Express preview of the application.  What if I have other questions? Reply below, send me a message, or email to community@unqork.com Newly Added FAQ Can we participate as a group? No. While I love the idea (it’s Community!), most participants will be building on their own. For fairness in judging, it makes sense to keep all applications to those built by individuals. If we get enough interest and participation, we will explore adding a group category for our next Hackathon. 

The Community Team is thrilled to announce that our first ever Community Contribution Portal is now LIVE! It has never been easier to showcase your expertise in our Community events, connect with other Creators, and expand our collective knowledge base!Since its launch, the Community Hub has served to connect Creators with the people and resources they need to be successful. However, until now, there hasn’t been a direct way to showcase your skill set and unique use cases to our broader Community. Enter the Community Contribution Portal, an application that gives you the ability to submit your interest in a wide variety of engagement opportunities and events. We could not be more excited to learn from your experience and expertise! How it WorksIf you are interested in contributing to the Unqork Community (in ways that go beyond creating and replying to posts on the Community Hub), we want to hear from you!When you access the Community Contribution Portal link, you will be prompted to provide some basic contact information and select which types of contributions you are interested in participating in. Submit how you’d like to contributeWe have identified 7 main contribution types for you to choose from:Participate in an interview for us to share your story in a user spotlight blog. Present a short demo on a Success Hour webinar (tips, tricks, configuration, or specific features). Demo and discuss a proof of concept (POC) with The Uncoder on Twitch. Provide a deep dive presentation on a webinar or Twitch livestream. Create posts or videos to drive discussions on the Community Hub. Participate in User Group events for peer-to-peer sharing (use cases, strategies, lessons learned). Write thought leadership blogs about using Unqork or Codeless Architecture.If you would like to contribute in other ways, there is an open suggestion box that allows you to detail any additional thoughts or interests.Lastly, we ask that you explain what topics you would like to discuss in your contribution. These can range from explaining platform features like Data Workflow (DWF) to highlighting interesting use cases that you have implemented in your professional life. Regardless of what you are passionate about, we want to hear it!What happens next? After you submit through our Community Contribution Portal, your job is done! One of our Community Managers will then review your submission and reach out when we have any related opportunities. Benefits of contributingIf your submission has been selected and after your contribution is complete, we want to show our appreciation for your time! Below are the corresponding Community rewards for each engagement type. Contribution Type Points Badge (if applicable) User Spotlight Blog +50 Power User Spotlight  Success Hour Webinar +100 Success Hour Speaker The Uncoder on Twitch +200 Twitch Speaker Deep Dive Presentation +200 Twitch Speaker (if on Twitch) Community Hub Content +20 per post More details coming soon! User Group Events +200 Badge coming soon! Thought Leadership Blogs +200 N/A *Point totals and badges are subject to change. You can always find the latest information here: These points and badges raise your profile in our community and showcase your expertise. They can also help you on your way to becoming a Subject Matter Expert. We are also brainstorming additional benefits and invite your ideas and feedback. How can we best say thanks for your contributions?  The Community Contribution Portal represents an important step towards more of our Community programs being led by you and other Creators in collaborative ways. With the form now LIVE, we could not be more excited to see what you all contribute!Zander Donowitz is Unqork’s Community & Customer Success Intern for summer 2022. This Community Contribution Portal was built by Zander (using Unqork) as part of his internship case study. 

Each month, we share with you the latest additions and updates to our Documentation Hub. Stay up-to-date and review the latest information to keep your skills sharp. You can find each of these articles and guides in our Platform Documentation which is linked in the Knowledge Base menu and included in federated search here on the Community Hub, or by clicking the Help menu within the Unqork platform (video overview). New DocumentationRelease NotesVersion: 6.62.0 Version: 6.60.0Articles and Configuration Guides CSS Upload CSS Upload Troubleshooting Learn more about CSS Upload here: New Glossary EntriesPrimary Fields Display and Layout  Updated Documentation  These consist of small-to-medium procedural updates and/or updated screenshots to reflect changes to the Unqork platform.End node Number component Workflow Settings Text Field component Property ID Best Practices Data Encryption Email Template Administration How to: Build a Simple Looping Data WorkflowDocumentation Requests We value your feedback. Reply below with your comments, or consider submitting your documentation ideas and requests here on Community Hub.Learn how: