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Update: This feature has been sunset due to lack of use and changes to our enhancement ideas process. Your feedback is important to us. So much so that Ideas was the first feature we added after launching the Community Hub last year. Today, I’m excited to announce that we are expanding our Ideas feature.When we launched this feature in October, it was limited to Platform Ideas. You can submit your ideas for features and functionality you would like to see added to the Unqork platform and upvote ideas you agree with. That functionality still exists, but we’re expanding it to include ideas for the Creator resources you use every day. What’s NewYou can now submit ideas for each of the following: Academy Community (Community Hub features, event ideas, or programs you’d like to see) Documentation Marketplace Unqork PlatformHow It WorksYou submit ideas the same way you did before. Click on the Submit an Idea button on our Ideas page. (We also have an improvement coming soon to make this easier. Stay tuned!)Select an Idea CategoryYou will see a new field when creating an idea: Idea Category. Simply select the appropriate category for your idea before you post your idea. New field when creating an Idea post What Happens NextAll ideas funnel to the Unqork teams responsible for that area. The team can reply to your idea if they have a question, a relevant update, or if they want to discuss it further with you. Otherwise, know that your ideas are added to our team pipelines for improvements to consider. Additionally, your ideas are visible to other Creators to upvote or contribute to the conversation with a reply. Ideas will appear in the main activity feed on the Community Hub home page or can be viewed (and filtered by category) on the Ideas page. The more upvotes an idea gets, the stronger the signal to us that we should consider it. In the future, we intend to develop ways to update you on idea statuses. Until then, stay tuned to our Latest Updates blog for announcements on new features for Community, the latest Documentation, new courses form Academy, or new Marketplace listings. For the Unqork Platform, your best source of information is our Release Notes. (Note: we also highlight Release Notes in our documentation updates). Have a question or some feedback? Leave us a reply below. Or better yet, submit your ideas for how we can continue to improve.

Role Based Access Control requirements can be complicated. For example X users should see X users data but not Y users. Y users should see X users data and Y users data but not Z users. Z users shouldn’t see anyones data. It can be a lot! Learn how to build out and handle these requirements in our Professional RBAC course. We will also teach you tips and tricks and testing and troubleshooting RBAC along the way! Sign up for this course in Academy here: https://academy.unqork.com/path/professional-configurator/professional-rbac

Codeless Architecture is a new development framework that frees the enterprise from IP lock-in with an open-standard Codeless definition that is completely portable, transparent, and upgradable. It’s also the top digital trend we believe will shape the year to come. At Unqork, we're launching CodelessArchitecture.org as a hub for industry leaders to share their ideas and thoughts about Codeless Architecture, and general best technology practices for the modern enterprise. Learn About Codeless ArchitectureWe recommend you check out the the website, which includes these helpful resources and more: Blog: Codeless Architecture, Abstraction, and the Power of Truly Declarative Development Webinar: Build Your Future With Codeless Architecture  Whitepaper: How to Build Your Future With Codeless Architecture Github: Specification for Codeless Architecture Getting Started Guide: 5 Things to Know About Getting Started With Codeless Architecture Article: The 9 Most Disruptive Trends of 2022 including Codeless Architecture One-page Overview: Codeless Architecture 101Invitation to ContributeDo you have ideas, thoughts, or best practices to share on this topic? Are you interested in contributing as a thought leader? Contact us at community@unqork.com. Visit CodelessArchitecture.org

Twice 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. New Documentation Configuration GuidesMerge Data Tables Snippet Updated Documentation Small UpdatesHTTP Status Codes, Module Editor Settings Sidebar, Server Side Module Execution, How to: Remote Execute a Dashboard, API Best Practices, Configuration Best Practices, FedRamp Security Best Practices, and API Specification Snippet - Articles to reference new HTTP Output feature Input Operator, Output Operator, Set Outputs Operator, and Group Input Operator - Articles to reference new Grid System feature Dropdown Component - Article updated for best practices Radio Buttons Component - Article updated for best practices Remote Execute Dashboard - Article updated for Plug-In panel re-organization Adding/Removing Applications, Adding/Removing Marketplace Listings, Adding/Removing Snippets, and Managing Services for Marketplace Integration Templates - Content separated out for single sourcing Marketplace contentYou can find each of these articles or guides in our Platform Documentation or via federated search here on the Community Hub. We’d love your feedback. Tell us what you think in the replies below. 

As our Unqork Community grows, we are always working to improve your experience with new ways to connect to the people and resources you need as a Creator. Later this month, we are excited to take the first step towards a more open Community Hub experience. Note: You can stay up-to-date on these improvements via our Latest Updates blog where you can filter by Community and also subscribe to email updates. What’s Changing?We are softening the login experience when you first visit the Community Hub.You’re likely familiar with the initial login screen, asking you to enter an Unqork environment. It looks like this:Current Community Hub Login ScreenIn the future, you will be able to visit a more open Community Hub platform and access the navigation menu without logging-in. When logged-out, your view of the home page will look more like this:Example of the new Community Hub home page when logged-outIt’s still the same Community Hub, but you can access the navigation menu and see other features available to you. The new Login button will then take you through the same login experience you’re familiar with today. Overall, it should be similar to your experiences with Unqork Academy and Marketplace. Additionally, some features will now be accessible from a logged-out state. At the outset, this will just be Events, the Latest Updates blog, Points Leaderboard, Badge Updates, and user profile pages. What’s Staying the Same?Login credentials for Community Hub access: You will still need to use your Creator credentials for an Unqork environment in order to login. Q&A, Ideas, and other forums remain private: Your questions, replies, ideas, and other posts will only be visible to Creators who are logged-in on the Community Hub.Your User Profile contains mostly private information. Fields for your name, job title, company, and location are only for administrative use. They are not visible to other community members. Only your username, join date, badges, and certification status are visible to other users. When logged-in, other users can also view your recent activity, but this is not visible to logged-out users.Example of user profiles for logged-out viewers.Posts, replies, and activities are not accessible.  How Does This Impact You? The impact for existing Creators should be minimal and positive. The main change is that you now can access the navigation menu without logging-in. If you’ve been using Community Hub as your one-stop shop to access Creator resources like Academy or Documentation Hub, it should save you time. For Creators new to our Community, this change should make for a more welcoming experience. Rather than seeing a mostly static login page, they will be able to see some of the elements available to them when they join. Additionally, they’ll be able to see information on our events and updates. In the future, we will consider opening up other elements of our community as well. This would be done to unlock new benefits like Q&A access via any search engine or allowing non-Creators to login and leverage some resources. We will let you know before making any of those changes. If you have questions, ideas or feedback, please let us know. Option to Update Your UsernameThe one primary consideration, however, is whether you wish to update your username. As mentioned above, user profiles, the points leaderboard, and recently earned badges will be visible even when logged-out.When we launched our Community Hub, we followed the First & Last Name format of our previous platform. There are benefits to using full names: your certification status, badges, and points are attributed to you, showcasing your expertise and reputation within the Community. It also helps for promoting Creator-to-Creator connections by making it easier to find someone to connect with on Linkedin or other platforms.That said, as we make some elements of our community to be more public, we recognize that not everyone will wish to display their full name. If at any time you wish to change your username to something more anonymous, please email our team at community@unqork.com. We are targeting the week of April 18-22 for when we transition to this more open state. If you wish to update your username before then, please let us know by Monday, April 18. However, you can request to update your username at any time. Note: Updating your username applies only to the Community Hub. It does not impact your login credentials for Unqork environments or other Creator resources like Unqork Academy or Marketplace.---As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to me directly or contact us at community@unqork.com 

Learning how to create a Dashboard in Unqork isn’t something you can just wing or copy from someone else’s configuration. You need to have a full and in-depth understanding of how dashboard’s work in Unqork to create yours correctly and securely. Start your journey of learning how to create Dashboards in our Introduction to Dashboard Course. This course hosts multiple use cases and practice modules so you can receive hands on experience.  Get started here: https://academy.unqork.com/path/associate-configurator/introduction-to-dashboards

Last week, Unqork was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022. In addition to sharing this exciting news with you, our Creators and our community, we want to celebrate your stories of innovation. How to ParticipateWhat follows is a blog post from @Bassam Chaptini, Unqork’s Chief Technology Officer and a member of its founding team.Read his post to hear our point of view on innovation with Codeless Architecture.   Reply in the comments to this post with your point of view:  How does Unqork help you do your most innovative work?  Share 1-2 sentences or (better yet) a short video on how you are innovating with Unqork.  BenefitsCreators who reply to this post by March 31 will earn 50 bonus points for sharing your story.If your story is compelling or inspiring, we may invite you to present on a future Creator LIVE webinar to at an Unqork event. Not only to we want to celebrate your stories within on our community, but also amplify your innovative wins more broadly. If your quote or video is included in a marketing campaign, you’ll earn an additional 200 bonus points, a special achievement badge, Unqork swag, and other benefits for helping us spread the word about innovating with Codeless Architecture.  The Most Innovative Companies Will Be Codeless Today, Unqork was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022, ranking 5 on the list of Most Innovative Enterprise Tech companies. To be included on a list alongside companies such as GitHub and DocuSign is a true validation of our vision.The recognition got me thinking about what innovation really means to us at Unqork. It’s easy to appreciate innovation when it takes the form of something like SpaceX landing a rocket standing up or Pfizer and Moderna developing Covid-19 vaccines in record time. Innovation in enterprise software development may seem less spectacular, but it’s no less transformative. Enterprise applications are crucial ingredients in our modern world. They allow us to remotely access services from our doctor, insurer, bank, and local municipality via any web browser. Internal enterprise applications eliminate high-volume manual tasks and streamline cross-department workflows, which makes employees more productive, organizations more efficient, and ultimately delivers enhanced services to end-users. The complexity of today’s modern world demands robust, scalable digital engagements, which is why organizations invest hundreds of billions of dollars into software development every year. Remarkably, most of that money isn’t even used to develop new software—it’s spent managing existing codebases (AKA “keeping the lights on”). That problem is why we started Unqork. We don’t want software to be a burden holding our customers back; we want software to empower them to drive new innovations the world has never even thought of yet.That’s why Unqork is helping lead the way to a new enterprise software development paradigm: Codeless Architecture. This may be a new concept to many, but trust me, you’ll be hearing a lot about it in the years to come.You’re probably already familiar with “Serverless Architecture,” in which the management of physical servers is outsourced to a specialized third-party cloud service provider (CSP) such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP. Serverless Architecture was a game-changer because it empowered organizations to tap into the power of the cloud sans the complexity of purchasing and managing physical servers. Serverless was arguably the most impactful disruption in enterprise software over the past decade, and Codeless will be just as impactful—if not more so.With Codeless Architecture, organizations outsource the management of their tech stack (including programming languages, frameworks, and integrations) to specialized no-code platforms (NCPs) such as Unqork. With Codeless Architecture, organizations outsource the management of their tech stack (including programming languages, frameworks, and integrations) to specialized no-code platforms (NCPs) such as Unqork. Developers can take a purely declarative approach to development and leave all the procedural steps to their NCP, which means complex applications can be built without writing, managing, or even seeing a line of code. When organizations go codeless, they can focus entirely on overcoming business challenges instead of technical ones. This isn’t some fantasy future state; it's happening right now.  Codeless Architecture has been used by leading organizations around the world to:  transform long-standing legacy processes in financial services deliver enhanced customer services at scale in insurance establish large cities’ pandemic response hubs in a matter of days build secure applications to support modern digital healthcare digitize "analog" processes at large federal agencies It wasn’t long ago that companies were forced to spend a not-insignificant amount of resources managing their physical cloud infrastructure. But over the past decade, Serverless Architecture abstracted physical servers into virtual components. Unqork’s no-code platform expands that abstraction to the application level. Codeless Architecture isn’t just an iterative improvement in how enterprise software is built, it completely eliminates the traditional roadblocks that stand between great ideas and great applications. This is how Unqork unlocks the innovation of others.To learn more: The 9 Most Disruptive Trends of 2022  Unqork for Developers - Do more with Codeless  What is Codeless Architecture? Codeless Architecture, Abstraction, and the Power of Truly Declarative Development Share Your Story of Innovation Reply in the comments with your point of view: How does Unqork help you do your most innovative work?  Share 1-2 sentences or (better yet) a short video on how you are innovating with Unqork.

Twice 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. New Documentation ArticlesFreeform Grid Component  Uniform Grid Component  Referencing Syntax in Inline Grid and Freeform Grid  How to: Write Data to the Uniform Grid Configuration GuidesUpdate Multiple Submissions Snippet  Webhook API Snippet Release NotesV6.52.0 Platform Release NotesUpdated Documentation Medium UpdatesGrid System Introduction - Article to reference freeform and uniform grids  Dynamic Grid Component - Article with new footnotes and edge cases Small UpdatesGrid Logic Referencing Syntax - Article with updated syntax  Dynamic Grid Styling - Article with new styles  Introduction to Unqork - Article with small update to DevTools/DevOps V6.52.0 Platform Release Notes - Added Grid System documentation links Plug-In Component - Article for best practices You can find each of these articles or guides in our Platform Documentation or via federated search here on the Community Hub. We’d love your feedback. Tell us what you think in the replies below. 

February continued the momentum from January and the first six months live on our Community Hub! Once again, we saw our most active month to date.Additionally, we saw a record number contributors from our community with 23% of active community members contributing in some form. As a reminder that each action you take - your questions, your ideas, your replies, your upvotes, and your marked answers - contributes to making our community stronger and better.In the coming weeks, we will launch even more ways for you to contribute. Stay tuned! Congratulations to our newest Subject Matter Expert! As you contribute, you also progress towards earning SME status: the top recognition on our community.In February, @Keerthivasan_RK reached the 20 questions answered mark and kept going: reaching 26 answers in addition to earning more than 200 points for the fifth consecutive month! On the Path to SME Status @Pushparaj - 3 consecutive months of 200+ points; 18 solved answers @Manish Gupta - 3 consecutive months of 200+ points; 16 solved answers @B Arvind - 200+ points in 4 of 5 months; 15 solved answers @Umesh Patole - 1 month of 200+ points; 12 solved answersShow your gratitude and help them reach SME status by upvoting their helpful replies and marking answers when they solve your question. Top contributors on Community Leaderboard In addition to the names above, you’ll see many of our other community SMEs on the list below. Will you join them next month? February points leaders  @Keerthivasan_RK 768 @Christopher Guzmán 750 @Umesh Patole 616 @B Arvind 525 @Pushparaj 488 @Apurva Dhamane 461 @Madhura 454 @Chris Pangrace 386 @Manish Gupta 338 @Shivkumar Hemke 299   Community Hub Improvements As our community grows, we are working to improve your experience and building new features to connect you to resources and Creators. The primary improvement in February was a new reward for marking answers when your question is solved: Additionally, we continue to build out our Latest Updates blog with the most relevant news and updates for you. In February, we finalized the details for twice-monthly updates on our Documentation Hub. We also introduced you to the first blog post from The Uncoder @Nick Gamble. In addition to these blogs, Nick is livestreaming regularly on our new Twitch channel. We’ll promote those live stream events and share the recordings here on the Community Hub, but we also hope you will follow Unqork on Twitch. Coming Soon February also saw a lot of progress behind the scenes on updates and improvements soon to come. Stay tuned to our Latest Updates blog for new features, forums, and activities launching in the coming weeks.  Community Events We know that a community is much more than an online forum, it’s also ways to connect, network, and share experiences with other Creators. Increasing opportunities for peer-to-peer connection will be an increasing focus as our community grows. This month, we rolled out a new event format with our first Success Hour. This interactive format full of short demos received great feedback from those who attended. We hope to make this a monthly event like our Creator LIVE series. Additional Opportunities You can also expect us to keep you up-to-date on other webinars and events to connect with experts and learn about Unqork. You’ll find these under our Events menu with recordings posted under our Knowledge Base menu. Here’s what you may have missed in February: Upcoming in March Our Creator LIVE series is taking a break as we introduce a new Spotlight Series with weekly sessions across March and April. Additionally, we’re recruiting speakers for our March Success Hour, targeted for March 24. More details to come soon or you can contact us if you have a tips, tricks, or best practices to share! 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. 

A new batch of Unqork Marketplace listings have been released! Build faster and reduce rework by leveraging these new listings aimed to enable lightening speed app development 🚀Webhook API Snippet VIN Decoder Integration Google Integration  News API Integration Data Workflow Snippet SeriesWebhook API SnippetThis snippet helps you configure a standardized webhook in Unqork. It contains a clean outline for configuration and response bodies. (View Listing)News API TemplateA news aggregator that finds live articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web. This template includes a UI and API module. (View Listing)Google TranslateThis integration makes it easy to translate your text into a preferred language. This template provides real-time translations, supports over 100 languages, and automatically detects the origin text's language. (View Listing) The VIN Decoder TemplateThis template uses an integration from the Department of Transportation to get vehicle information based on its VIN. When you enter a valid VIN and click Lookup VIN, the fields populate with the vehicle's data. (View Listing) Data Workflow Snippet SeriesWe’re also excited to release a data workflow snippet series that have been sourced from the many of the most popular Community posts: Filter Data Table - This snippet sets ups the basic config for filtering a data table with drop-downs that can be easily edited or added to. (View Listing) Merge Data Tables - The snippet gives you the configuration for each merge type (View Listing) Verify Equal Values - This snippet has a pre-configured dataworkflow to compare all values in an object or an array (the snippet includes configuration for both). If all the values are equal, the snippet returns true. If any values aren’t equal, it returns false. (View Listing) Update Multiple Submissions - This snippet pulls in module submissions to add or update fields. The snippet will then put the updated submissions back into the original module. (View Listing) In Case You Missed It: Loop SnippetsLastly, since the beginning of 2022, we’ve seen a big uptick in user visits, installs, and usage of Marketplace listings. The 3 loop snippets introduced in December have driven a majority of this. If you haven’t used them yet, you’re missing out! For Loop Snippet - Processes data based on the number of data rows. (View Listing) While Loop Snippet - Processes data based on a data condition. This loop confirms the condition is true before running the action. (View Listing) Do While Loop Snippet - Processes data based on a data condition. This loop confirms the condition is true after running the action. (View Listing)

This is the first of twice-monthly updates on new and updated documentation via our Documentation Hub. Stay up-to-date and review the latest information to keep your skills sharp. New Documentation Authentication Types - Article listing methods, their description, and parameters for each.  Filter Data Table Snippet - Configuration Guide News API Integration Template - Configuration GuideUpdated DocumentationRestructured Data Workflow Troubleshooting Article (Large update) Simple Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Circular Reference Errors Troubleshooting Filtered Strings Best Practices: Property IDs - Grid standardization (Small update) Calendar and Release Notes Process - Replaced iFrame Calendar with iFrame Table (Small update) Component Level RBAC - Updated "No Access" permission description (Small update) Introduction to the New Grid System - Updated standardized Grids images (Small update) Module Administration - Deprecated Module Promotion (Small update)You can find each of these articles or guides in our Platform Documentation or via federated search here on the Community Hub. We’d love your feedback. Tell us what you think in the replies below. 

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Hi, My name is Tamika White and I am Product Marketing Manager here at Unqork! I am excited to introduce the first installment in our blog series, Uncoder. A blog created for developers by developers. Check it out below as Nick Gamble, Chief Evangelist at Unqork introduces us to Unqork 101.Hi, I’m @Nick Gamble, Head of Evangelism at Unqork. I’ve been in the development game for over a decade. I’ve been an employee, a consultant, a manager, and a business owner. You can trust me when I say I understand everything software engineers, programmers, and developers have on their plate. I know the pain of being tasked to build new applications around evolving customer business requirements and meeting the demands of multiple stakeholders. And I know the challenges of doing it within complex, sprawling business ecosystems of legacy systems and third-party services. And I know the pressures to get it all done now now now.Right now, being a developer means spending a lot of time and energy translating business requirements into code. So many lines of code. Worse, all those lines of code have to be upgraded and maintained for the duration of the software’s lifecycle (some large organizations spend 50% of their IT budgets just maintaining all the existing code they have). But what if I told you that you could produce everything you do now without writing, editing, or even seeing a line of code?You may have heard of “no-code” platforms before, but you didn’t know what it meant exactly. No-code can be thought of as the next great evolution in software development. No-code frees you from the tedious procedural development tasks so you can focus on doing the best work of your career.Have I piqued your interest? Maybe just a little, at least?Maybe we can start this journey with an introduction to Designer. This is Unqork’s entirely visual interface that allows developers to drag-and-drop configurable components representing user-facing elements, backend logic, and integrations. You decide what you want your software to look like and what business logic it requires, and the platform interprets it on the fly.  Watch a clip from Unqork's recent video on Twitch. You can also access the full recording: TL;DR, here are the benefits of Designer Unqork’s Designer is where most—if not all—of your development takes place With Designer, you can build enterprise-grade software in a completely visual UI  The platform automates high-volume development tasks (e.g., ecosystem migration, client on-boarding, and workflow management) You can rapidly build and iterate software (our clients report going 3x acceleration going from ideation to production) Builds in Unqork eliminate the creation of new legacy code that would otherwise have to be managed in perpetuity Building with Unqork eliminate human coding error (a recent analysis found that applications built on Unqork have 600x fewer defects than hand-coded ones) Easily integrate new custom applications with legacy systems and external services  No-code transforms traditional considerations vis-à-vis weighing speed vs. quality vs. cost. It’s an entirely new development paradigm, so organizations are no longer forced to compromise in any one area.  Want to learn more about Unqork No-Code Designer and the benefits of the Unqork no-code platform? Join us on Twitch and subscribe to our newsletter. We look forward to you becoming an Uncoder!About the AuthorNick is currently Unqork's Head of Evangelism who is leading the effort to inform the developer community about the power and potential of no-code. In his previous role as Unqork's Vice President of Solutions, Nick led the technical design and implementation for a number of Unqork’s largest clients, including New York City, Goldman Sachs, and other Fortune 100 companies. Through this experience he found a new department pioneering the development of reusable patterns and extensions to the capabilities of the platform, all using Unqork. Prior to joining Unqork in the early stage, Nick spent his career in software development helping startups get off the ground and enterprises digitally transform. These roles took him around the world, gaining a deep passion and understanding of how to build global systems and how people will use them.

Application Security & RBAC go hand in hand. Much of what needs to happen to make your application secure is related to who can access what. Learn the essentials and the specifics of these two subjects with the Security & RBAC Skill path. Begin learning here.  You’ll also have the opportunity to let us know if there are any topics that can be added to this skill path! We’re always looking to make our learning paths the best they can be. Feel free to let us know your thoughts!

New to Unqork?You might not be familiar with components like “field group” or “panel” - but the difference between these is important to your configuration! Learn more about these components and others such as navigation and columns in our Academy Course: Introduction to Display & Layout

WIth thousands of previously asked and answered questions, our Platform Q&A is the fastest growing area in our knowledge base. From the beginning, we have awarded reputation points to Creators who contribute replies (3 points) and answers (20 points) to questions.Effective this month*, we are adding to that incentive by awarding 10 points for marking the correct answer to a question. By taking the time to share your challenges and solutions, you help strengthen our knowledge base for the benefit of others.  *Points will be awarded to those who have marked answers since February 1, 2022Point CriteriaWhen your question has been answered, indicate the reply that best answered your question by clicking on the ‘Solved’ check mark next to the reply.  Select this icon on the replyIf the answer is not in one of the replies, consider adding your own reply to share how you solved the question.How This HelpsMarking your question as solved helps adds value to our community in multiple ways:Other Creators benefit from knowing the answer when they find the question in community.  It rewards the Creator who took the time to help you answer the question, earning them points and progress toward SME status.  If there are multiple replies, it provides clarity on which reply solved your question. It shifts the focus of community contributions to other questions that still need answers.The goal is to improve our answer percentage and provide clear solutions for Creators who read that question in the future. Get StartedThere are many questions in our community that have received replies, but do not have answers marked. Consider looking back through your previous posts and marking answers to open questions. Your profile Posts Look for questions that don’t have a  yet As always, we welcome your feedback in the comments, via direct message here on the Community Hub, or via email at community@unqork.com. Related:  

January was our best month yet on our new Community Hub! Nearly six months since we launched, our community is growing fast with both new members and increased in activity.Congratulations to our newest Subject Matter Experts! The most exciting development of the past few months is the growing number of Creators contributing to our community. In January, we added @Apurva Dhamane as an SME after earning SME status throughout October - December. Today, @Madhura reached the 20 questions answered mark and SME status after earning more than 1500 points from November through January. Over the past few months, Apurva and Madhura have been our top two points earners. Please join me in congratulating them both and thanking them for their contributions to our community. Top contributors on Community Leaderboard In addition to Apurva, Madhura, and our other SMEs, we’ve seen great contributions from these community members:January points leaders@Madhura 548 - SME @Manish Gupta 422 - 2 consecutive months of 200+ points @Apurva Dhamane 357 - SME @Pushparaj 286 - 2 consecutive months of 200+ points @Keerthivasan_RK 277 - 4 consecutive months of 200+ points @Miguel Bendito 263  - 3 consecutive months of 200+ points @Danielle Ferguson 252 - SME @Emet Ozar 200 - SME @B Arvind 169  - 4 consecutive months of 150+ points @Magesh Kumar 167 - SMEShow your gratitude by marking the answer to your questionAs you can see, we have a few more Creators knocking on the door of SME status. As twenty answers is one of the requirements, marking the answer to your question helps those who helped you. In the future, we hope to award points to you as well for helping contribute to our knowledge base.  Community Hub Improvements As our community grows, we are working to improve your experience and building new features to connect you to resources and Creators. Over the past few weeks, we’ve rolled out these improvements: Additional improvements are in the works for each of the next few months, so stay tuned. Feature in Focus: Federated SearchIf you have not yet, take a look at that update on our improved search. Community Hub now offers you the ability to search across nearly all Creator resources. So if you’re looking for an answer or a resource to help, you can cast your net wide across our Q&A, Unqork Academy, Documentation Hub, and even Marketplace listings. Community Events We know that a community is much more than an online forum, it’s also ways to connect, network, and share experiences with other Creators. Increasing opportunities for peer-to-peer connection will be an increasing focus as our community grows. This month, we’re excited about the return of our interactive Creator LIVE! webinar series. Additionally, we’re expanding this series with a second monthly webinar. Additional OpportunitiesYou can also expect us to keep you up-to-date on other webinars and events to connect with experts and learn about Unqork. You’ll find these under our Events menu with recordings posted under our Knowledge Base menu. January Webinar Recordings Feedback welcomeWith 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. 

Data Collections are an important aspect of building in Unqork. They can save you from slowing down your modules with too many data tables, and can even be used for pulling in dynamic data. Learn how to start off with Data Collections with our Introduction to Data Collections Course.

When we launched our Community Hub in August, one of the improvements was on-demand access to past Creator LIVE! webinar recordings. We have heard positive feedback that this has been helpful as Creators revisit the presentations or discover them for the first time when searching on the community. Additionally, you may have noticed new types of webinars over the past few months, like our Platform Release Show and Marketplace Spotlights. More webinars and events are in development, beginning with our new monthly Creator Success Hour series of interactive webinars beginning on February 24. Community Hub as your one-stop shop for resourcesAs webinars and events relevant to Creators get scheduled, we will promote them and make them accessible here on Community Hub.To make it easier to find and access recordings to past events, we have added the Knowledge Base menu in our navigation. You can access all of our past Creator LIVE! events, as well as other webinars relevant to Creators.Knowledge Base drop-down menuAdditional ways to access webinar recordingsWebinar recordings will be among the search results when looking for answers or resources on a specific topic. You will also see them Related Posts recommended in the sidebar alongside questions and other posts. So even if you missed that webinar a few months back, you can find and watch it when it becomes relevant to your work.These recording posts are also accessible from the event pages for past events in the Related Posts section under the event details. This is a change from how recordings were previously hosted; while recordings are no longer embedded in the event page, you can still find them by navigating to a past event page. Example of recording on event pagesWatch recordings on Community HubRather than send you to another webpage, you can watch these recordings directly within Community Hub. This allows you to add your questions and comments in the replies below the post. Our team will tag the speakers when necessary to keep the conversation going or get you an answer to your question. Finally, you can also let us know what you thought using the emoji rating for content helpfulness. Unqork Create 2021In addition to webinars, you will see a link to access all the great presentations from our Unqork Create conference. While these recordings are not available to watch directly within Community Hub, we have plans to add them into our Federated Search in the coming the weeks.  

Modularity is an important structural principle in software engineering. It's used to manage complexity and increase system reliability. The process makes managing large systems easier by creating smaller pieces. Without modularity, systems would reach their capacities and collapse under their own weight. To better visualize this concept, imagine building your entire application in one module (woof!)Let's look at how you can take advantage of modularity in Unqork with this Academy Course. 

We have been live on Community Hub for nearly six months and, overall, the transition has been smooth and well received. However, I noticed a trend around replies that suggested our user experience was not as intuitive as it could be. Thanks to some feedback from a few of our Subject Matter Experts, we were able to improve your experience when replying to posts. Quote versus ReplyThe Quote option on each post or reply auto-populates the text of that post into the reply box below the thread. This is helpful for replying directly to a specific post or reply within a long thread. However, it is not necessary to quote the previous post in order to reply. This may have been confusing, as the Reply box was sometimes buried lower on the page. Considerations for QuotingFor long threads, many quotes can make the conversation difficult to read or follow. If you are replying directly to the previously post in the thread, we do not recommend using the Quote option. Alternatively, consider using an @ mention to alert the author or call out a previous reply.What ChangedFirst, we changed how the Quote option looked below each post. Previously, this option was called “Quote and reply” which caused some confusion. Next, we created a more compact and intuitive user experience for posts with zero replies. We have removed the box that indicated 0 replies.Previously, you would see this:Example of previous user experienceThat box took up space and often obstructed the view of the reply box below it.  Now, when a post has zero replies, you will see the Reply box directly below the original post. New user experience with Reply box directly below the original post. Improving Your ExperienceWhile small, we hope these changes improve your experience when replying to and reading threads on our Community Hub. We will continue to test and iterate additional improvements, so stay tuned for future updates.If you have any questions or feedback on this or other Community Hub functionality, you can reach out to me here on the Community Hub or contact our team at community@unqork.com. 

One of the most important aspects of building an application is its stable and well thought out security. Everything from RBAC, storing sensitive data, and encryption need to be considered. Learn about important security concepts to keep in mind when building your applications in this course: Security Information and Best Practices, part of the Solutions Architect Learning Path. 

Version 1.5 of the Release Management tool brings 3 new features that promise to transform the release & promotion process into an unparalleled version control experience.Unqork’s latest updates for this month bring you Release Management v1.5, a powerful new way to prepare and promote releases with our Release Management tool. These are the three reasons we are excited to be providing Creators this update.1. Create a snapshot of your releaseUsing the Release Management tool to promote a release is now a two-step process: Creating a tagged release (list of applications, modules, and data collections, including a record of the versions of the included modules) Promoting that tagged release Tagging a release creates a snapshot of the release at that moment, keeping its current state frozen in time. When you promote the tagged release to a target environment in the future, the promoted release reflects the versions of the modules as they were when the release was tagged—even if changes have been made since then. This powerful new way to use the Release Management tool brings flexibility to the release management process. Creators can more easily experiment with application changes without losing a record of a previous stable version.2. Release only part of your applicationNow Creators can select a subset of an application’s modules and data collections to include in their release. You can even select modules and data collections from different tagged releases, letting you draw from different snapshots for a single release! With partial application releases, you have more control than ever over the release management process.3. Leverage a new integration APIWith the new Release Management Integration API, you can automate promotion processes via external services. Integrating the release management process into your external continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines is easier than ever. See this release in action 

Take a look at the latest developments of our innovative product, the Unqork Marketplace. Here’s why it is the most efficient way to optimize enterprise no-code application development.Unqork believes in helping developers work smarter, not harder. Through visual interfaces, intuitive business logic, and drag-and-drop components, no-code helps you do just that. With no-code, you can build high-quality applications in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost, all without writing a single line of code. We love no-code development at Unqork, but recently we got to thinking—can we do more? Can we make some aspects of web application development even faster and easier? We wanted to provide more tools, more integrations, and ways to boost efficiency and productivity on Unqork for our Creators (those who develop on the Unqork platform). “We know that the best way to offer these capabilities was by supporting a larger ecosystem around the Unqork platform,” says Warren Chen, our Vice President of Marketplace.And thus, the Unqork Marketplace was born. Nadia Abossein, Lead GTM Product Manager, adds, “It’s one of our top priorities.” Unqork Marketplace now has a robust team of full-time Unqorkers dedicated to its utility, longevity, and development. Here’s the inside scoop on one of our most exciting debuts this year.How the Unqork Marketplace worksThe Unqork Marketplace gives Creators access to a wide array of reliable, easy-to-install tools and capabilities called “assets”. Marketplace assets include applications, templates, integrations, and snippets, all of which can be directly installed into your Unqork environment and used right away. Unqork’s Codeless Architecture enables Creators to browse the Marketplace’s catalog of assets, download the assets they want to use, and seamlessly place them in their application.“The Unqork Marketplace enables Creators to not have to build applications from scratch,” Warren notes. This makes application development on Unqork even more efficient and cost-effective—using pre-built components allows Creators to build apps that are proven to work, reducing errors and improving time-to-market. Also, modifying a Marketplace asset won’t affect any other modules that currently use that component, helping prevent bugs before they take root. We have 65 assets currently available for creators and every month we add five or six new ones to the Marketplace! One newer Marketplace asset worth noting is the For Loop snippet, which enables you to perform a looping command. Performing the same action one at a time isn't efficient—with For Loop, Unqork Creators can eliminate this repetitive task and ultimately develop faster. Set up is quick and easy—simply install the snippet into your environment, access it from the Marketplace snippets section, and drop it onto the canvas of your module.“Snippets are the power behind Marketplace because I know what my clients need me to build. If there are snippets in here that help me build faster, that's the real beauty of Marketplace and that's where the bread and butter is going to be.” — Partner Application SpecialistBy allowing creators to easily access useful pre-built capabilities, Unqork Marketplace acts as a “foundation” for creation on Unqork, to use Nadia’s words. She also points to the Marketplace’s hope to further “democratize and expand access throughout the no-code development process,” helping current and future no-coders build better applications. Whether it’s dragging snippets into modules, starting applications from a template, or scrolling through assets for inspiration, the Marketplace has already made a huge impact. Since its launch this past June, Creators make use of the Unqork Marketplace more than 900 times on a monthly basis! Over a quarter of active Unqork Creators have built within at least one Marketplace listing. Thus far, more than 1,750 modules have been created with a snippet and over 250 applications have been made with the help of templates. What’s next for the Unqork Marketplace?Although the Unqork Marketplace is already an essential toolkit used by 25% of Unqorkers and no-code Creators, we’re constantly looking to do more and push boundaries. Our end goal is to maximize the Marketplace’s value for everyone who uses our platform—individual Creators, entire enterprises, and even other popular platforms.We're focusing heavily on two areas of growth for the marketplace right now—usability and capability. The Unqork Marketplace currently acts as an external hub (and is actually built using Unqork’s no-code platform!), but we’re hoping to integrate it deeper into how builders create on the Unqork platform. This will make it even easier for Creators to leverage assets and add capabilities to their nodes, supporting more seamless builds and modifications throughout the DevOps process.Along with improving the user’s experience of Unqork Marketplace, we want to support as much creativity as possible within the Marketplace itself. Warren explains that one aspect of this includes creating a “formalized process for picking partnerships” that promotes feedback and identifies key Marketplace features. We hope this will give people who use the Marketplace direct influence over what capabilities it leverages—and help us bring even more assets into the Marketplace every month!“Marketplace helps our Creators build faster! It builds confidence in our client when they see how fast we can build.” — Raj Palireddy, Sr. Solutions Architect, Persistent SystemsThe Unqork team also wants to eventually support third-party publishers, enabling them to create and share their assets on the Marketplace and engage directly with Creators. We hope this capability contributes to our long-term vision of having the Marketplace be an Unqork ecosystem, one that promotes collaboration while ensuring Creators get the features they need. “We’re creating the initial foundation for this flow now,” Nadia reveals, “and we’re hoping to bring on our first third-party publishers in the first quarter of 2022.”Even though it’s relatively young, the Unqork Marketplace already provides a massive amount of utility and power to Creators. We know that Unqork Marketplace will only continue to grow it's impact for our customers and Creators. By helping it grow into an ecosystem for Creators that truly integrates with other Unqork capabilities, we hope the Marketplace becomes a core aspect of our Codeless Architecture.Learn more about Unqork Marketplace here and keep checking back for new features, assets, and capabilities!Stay in touch with other no-code developments by subscribing to our newsletter, and schedule a personalized demonstration of Unqork with an in-house expert today.

New to Unqork’s no-code? Data Workflow is one of our most powerful components to build out functions, loops and processes. Just starting it from scratch can be a little overwhelming so we suggest kicking off with this course! In Introduction to Data Workflow you’ll learn how to think about the most common and important operators and establish a foundation for this ETL tool. In this course you’ll learn:What is Data Workflow How to use the Input Operator How Binded Tables work Using the Group Input Operator (the easiest way to create an object!) How to Use Output Operators And a lot more!