Version 8.10 of the Genesis Application Platform enables users to configure more application actions and data through the UI, streamlines server-side data configuration and improves unit testing.

A new Scheduling feature in the Genesis Foundation UI framework lets permissioned users configure when their application automatically triggers business logic and actions. Common tasks users can schedule include:

• Generating reports
• Publishing content
• Importing/exporting data
• Reminding users to complete tasks

The Scheduling feature integrates with the Genesis Evaluator, the microservice for triggering time-based scheduling and other events.

• Rule Builder is another new UI framework feature. Among other functions, it acts like a self-service rules engine, allowing users to dynamically configure the conditions under which the application should trigger an action or data process.
• Examples of the kinds of rules users can create include:
• Filtering data: Users can define the data they want to use in a report or to distribute to a connected system or application.
• Triggering application events: Users can define the conditions where system data initiates business logic, like assigning orders based on its attributes (such as size or asset type) or routing orders to connected services based on order attributes.

Rule Builder also integrates with the Genesis Evaluator.

8.10 helps developers configure data operations through several enhancements to the Genesis Data Server. Notably, the platform:

• Added support for non-unique indexes to improve response times when filtering using frequently used, non-unique field values.
• Added ability to selectively configure Data Servers to inherit one or more table indexes without having to redefine them.
• Expanded support for UTF-8 strings in Data Server indexing, enabling the inclusion of non-alphanumeric characters in indexed string values.
• Updated tracking for priming progress, making it easier to monitor the Data Server priming process on startup.

A series of improvements to the GenesisJUnit server unit testing suite facilitate testing and resolving errors. Upgrades include:

• New @UserRight annotation makes it simple to test user permissions.
• @ThreadDumpOnFailure, @CoroutinesDumpOnFailure and @FullDumpOnFailure annotations give developers more details about errors during unit testing.

Enhanced support for checking the process status when a GenesisJUnit test has finished. Assertions like “check process state is still HEALTHY” or “check process state was correctly set to ERROR” enable developers to test whether a process is in the expected state after a unit test has run.