New features in Intrexx Silent version 2023
Below you will find an overview of the new features that are available to you in Intrexx 2023.
Portal Manager: New Design
The portal manager has been redesigned. In keeping with the new corporate design of Intrexx, the product electric! In addition to the obvious change in color, the design has also been tweaked, like the new module menu, which is now prominently located to the left of the desktop.
The position of the toolbar has also changed. It can now be found at the top right. Thanks to the new login concept, logging into our cloud environments is now even easier. All you need to do is enter the portal name. You no longer need to know which server and port has to be addressed.
Detailed information on this can be found in the section Getting started with the Portal Manager.
Design
Layout templates
There are new layout templates: Intrexxperience and Intrexxperience.
Customizable ogin
The Intrexx standard login for the portal now allows you to integrate update-proof customizations, such as for integrating additional external login providers.
More detailed information about the customizable login is available in the following section:
Layout of the "Automatic logout" message
The layout of the message that is displayed at the bottom right of the portal for automatic logout after a session timeout can now be changed in the "Design" module. The corresponding styles can be found in the "Layout / Control elements / Extended properties / Messages" area.
New style classes for the tile view of view pages in free layout tables
In free layout tables, application pages can be integrated that are repeated for each data record. Style classes can be assigned to a freely designed table with Intrexx Steady Track, with which the integrated page can be displayed as a "tile".
More detailed information about the new style classes in free layout tables is available in the following section:
New style classes for application templates
The .Text_Small, .Container_Standard_2nd and .Container_Standard_3rd style classes are patched into all desktop layouts to improve the design of the application templates.
File icon sets modernized
New file preview icons for Filewalker and file controls.
Please note: If file type icons are displayed too large in the browser after the update and $FileUtil.getIconUrlOfKnownFileExtension {{ is used in your own Velocity files, then the desired height and width must also be specified at this point for the img tag, or the style class "}}file-extension-icon" for the class attribute.
Licenses
Editions
Six different editions are available in Intrexx:
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Intrexx Starter
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Intrexx Advanced
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Intrexx Professional/Intrexx Professional Flex
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Intrexx Premium / Intrexx Premium Flex
User
It is now easier to configure and assign an External User and Light User. Additionally, UI changes have been made so that users also get graphical feedback when functionalities are not active due to the use of a lower edition.
The main difference between the new licenses in the new pricing model is that instead of having to enter individual license keys for each of the components of a successful licensing (users, servers, connectors, etc.), as was previously the case, all information about the editions, user licenses and connectors is available in a single, somewhat longer license key. This saves you, the system administrator, the laborious insertion of individual keys and facilitates the correct licensing of Intrexx.
All information on licensing can be found here.
Architecture
Single Service Deployment (removing the Supervisor)
The market continues to develop, and with it Intrexx. To ensure that we are ideally equipped for the future, architectural changes became necessary.
In production operation, one portal is often operated per installation, especially in cloud deployments. To support these deployments better, the Supervisor service has been removed.
Intrexx portals only need one service for use with this. Functions that were previously portal independent, such as diagnostics, license manager or log viewer, now only display the data of the currently connected portal.
As part of this, a new Administration API endpoint for creating diagnostics has also been added.
Benefit Intrexx behaves in the same way with the changes in the cloud environment as it does in classic operation. In addition, a reduction in complexity has been achieved and deployment in the container is simplified. In addition, the user experience for new customers is better, as you always connect directly to the portal and the "supervisor" concept was difficult to understand.
Additional information When updating to the version, a list with all portals of the Intrexx instance and their ports is displayed. You need the info from the list to connect directly to the portals. Once you have made a connection, it will be saved among the last used connections.
You can find all information on this topic here: Intrexx without Supervisor
Official IX-Image is now (optionally) horizontally scalable
Function Through minor adjustments (configuration parameters), the official IX image can be started in distributed mode and thus form an IX cluster. You can find a description here: https://github.com/UnitedPlanet/intrexx-in-docker
Benefit Previously, horizontal scaling was relatively complicated to set up and operate. The barrier to entry was relatively high because there were major differences to "traditional" operations. These differences are now minimal and all the functionalities of the official IX Image are also available in distributed operation.
Installation
New setup
A new installation process simplifies installation with Linux in particular.
Linux During the installation, you can now create or select a technical user directly via Intrexx, with whom the installation will be carried out. You can also select "root" as the user if your company's security guidelines allow this.
Therefore, it is no longer necessary to create corresponding users via a Linux terminal before the Intrexx installation.
The new installation routine also eliminates the need to stop and restart Intrexx services under Linux.
Components When selecting the components, the option "Intrexx Portal Manager" is omitted. This is related to improvements related to the Portal Manager.
Detailed information on the new setup or installing Intrexx is available in the following sections:
Update process
A new, much simpler update procedure has been introduced.
If updates are available, you will be informed via a message window in the Portal Manager.
You can download the update while continuing to work. You can install the update afterwards. During installation, your portal will not be available to portal users. At startup, the system checks whether an update is available on the newly implemented Intrexx Download Manager.
More information about the update process is available here:
Applications
Page wizard
The new Page wizard creates responsive pages. In addition, free layout tables can be displayed in tile views, which can be easily configured. All information on this topic can be found here.
Multiple Selection 2.0
The new multiple selection control 2.0 is responsive and very user-friendly. It can be configured with default values. Entries can be static, values from applications, or from special value sources. The entries can be filtered using the search operations "Starts with" or "Contains".
Entries can be displayed with pictures or initials. In addition to the title, a subtitle can also be included in the display of an entry. Multiple selection 2.0 can be controlled via an API and can be operated using the keyboard. Your layout can be styled using CSS variables. The element exists as an input and view element.
You can find all further information here.
Responsive drop-down menu
The new drop-down menu is responsive and therefore automatically adapts to SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE screen sizes. Further information can be found here.
Markdown editor: Style functionality
After we updated the Markdown editor in the last update, it is now being expanded to include styling functionality. CSS variables are now available here in the Layout Designer as well. Simple settings like colors, radius and frame thickness can be configured there. These settings are automatically applied to all areas of the control. In addition, our layout templates were adapted and the control has already been styled according to the layouts. With the style option, the new Markdown editor fits perfectly into all layouts. This applies to customer layouts with specific color and style specifications as well as dark layouts.
Markdown editor
In the long text field, the Markdown control has been replaced by a new library (ToastUI). Existing Markdown implementations are patched and continue to work in both input and view. The new Markdown library makes additional entries such as code block, tables and tasks now possible. These can be configured in the Manager and are displayed correctly in the view control.
New functions in the date picker calendar
There are three new buttons in the small calendar for date selection
Today
Empty
OK
"Today" selects today's date, "Clear" deletes any entry from the date field, "OK" closes the calendar for date selection.
Mega menu
The new menu type provides a new view of the portal menu. The number of levels can be selected in the configuration. You can find all the information here.
Tree menu
In the Layout Designer, a new tree menu is also available for selection. You can find all the information here. The previous tree menu is still available.
Processes
New IMAP event source for Microsoft Exchange Online
The new IMAP event source supports authentication with the OAuth2 client credential grant flow.
In the IMAP event source, you can now choose between the types "Standard IMAP" or "Exchange Online". There are new configuration options for Exchange Online in the email server settings. In addition, the connection test for Exchange Online has been amended.
You can find all information on this topic here: Set up IMAP event source for Exchange Online
Microsoft 365 - New process action for creating Microsoft 365 groups
An MS365 group is the basis for almost all MS365 services. For example, team site, drives, Exchange group mailbox, etc. are automatically set up for a group. The new process action now offers the possibility of creating only one MS365 group. The functionality is identical to the "Create teams" action, except that no team is created based on the group. New in both actions is that you can now freely define the email address (group mailbox) for the group (or team). Previously, the address was generated by Intrexx.
Further information on this topic can be found here.
OneDriveTable expanded
- new "drive" type
- DriveId from data field
- StartFolderId static as well as from data field
- OneDriveTable possible within the free table
You can find more information on this topic in section MS365 OneDrive - Dynamic access via drive ID.
APIs
Administration API
The Intrexx Administration API provides you with a set of API endpoints with which you can perform central tasks in Intrexx without having to start the Intrexx Portal Manager. This allows you to create and delete portals or users, import licenses or applications via an API client.
Extension Admin API - Import of applications
Function It is now possible to import applications via the API endpoint /{portal}/applications that were exported from an Intrexx version smaller than the Intrexx version of the target system. Layouts can also be imported via the end point. The architecture has also been adapted to improve use in a cloud environment.
Benefit We now also apply the patch to the current version when using the import function via the Administration API. This makes any staging use cases even more manageable. Applications no longer have to be provided in all versions. It is also possible to roll out applications to target systems if the development system is on a lower Intrexx version than the production system.
Application API
With the new Application API, you can create API endpoints for any application. The creation of API endpoints is dialog-based. This allows you to create API endpoints with no deeper knowledge of programming.
Connectors
Connector for Microsoft 365 and Teams
With the Connector for Microsoft 365 and Teams Microsoft Products like Teams, OneDrive and Office Applications are integrated. The connector contains three new process actions, a new control and an integration on file field level. Further information can be found here.
New property for OAuth2 login module
Enables case-insensitive checking, e.g., for e-mail addresses whose upper/lower case in Intrexx does not correspond to that in the identity provider.
M-Files Connector
The M-Files Connector can now also access M-Files Cloud.
Scripting
Groovy
New Groovy methods for subscribing/unsubscribing to Intrexx Share plugins.
GroovyOrgBuilder method
The GroovyOrgBuilder (g_om) has been extended by the new method List<String> validatePassword(String, String, String, String).
Search
SolrCloud
Function The "SolrCloud" operating mode is fully supported for Intrexx installations. Solr can still be installed locally, but is now also optionally cloud-capable and can be used for multiple Intrexx instances if required. For this purpose, access per portal is secured via authentication. Existing portals are not affected by the change for the time being, but with the update, Solr will be upgraded to version 9.0. This is why authentication between the portal server and Solr search server will be necessary later. We automatically assign a default user with a password here so that authentication works out of the box.
Benefit With SolrCloud, distributed cloud instances are even easier and more cost-efficient to implement thanks to shared resource utilization.
You can find all information on this topic here: Individual Solr configuration
Global search
The search is changed from multi-index to single-index. For portals that use long text fields as search facets, this can occasionally lead to requests exceeding the default length and triggering error messages in the local or global search. This effect is not fixable for Intrexx, but can be prevented by increasing the requestHeaderSize parameter in solr/server/etc/jetty.xml from 8192 to 65536 and restarting the search service.
Other updates
Decouple proxy application templates from REST
It is now possible to exclude certain URLs from the Manager's proxy communication. In addition, the proxy settings of the operating system can be adopted for the manager.
JDK17
Intrexx Silent Track requires JDK 17. JDK 17 is included in the distribution.
Support for internationalized emails via regular expressions
Email addresses that contain non-ASCII characters in the local part (mailbox name) and the domain name can be encoded in UTF-8.
More detailed information about support for internationalized email is available in the following section:
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