Product Updates

1. Form Progress Visualizations

• Users can now add dynamic progress indicators to multi-page forms to improve completion rates.
• Multiple Styles: Support for 5 unique layouts (Segmented, Milestone, Dot, Line, and Circular).
• Intelligent Styling: Admins define a base color, and the system automatically generates variations for Active, Completed, and Incomplete states.
• Custom Labels: Support for page-specific labels (e.g., "Contact Info", "Payment", "Review").
• Automatic Cleanup: The system now intelligently resets progress bar data if the "Pager" element is removed from a form layout.

2. Advanced Performance & Submission Caching

• New governance controls to optimize form load speeds and prevent duplicate data entry:
• Form Load Cache: Configurable (0–300 mins) to store form metadata locally.
• Form Submit Cache: Restricts users from re-submitting a form for a specific duration after a successful entry.

3. Client Portal "Fix Connection" Utility

• Reduces downtime caused by Sandbox refreshes or metadata mismatches.
• Connection Checker: Automatically detects if the metadata connection name mismatches the URL-generated name.
• One-Click Repair: A new administrative button that updates metadata and regenerates all external form identifiers simultaneously.
• Proactive Warnings: Displays a critical alert in the Object Selector if the portal connection is unstable.

4. Expanded UI Components

• New Picklist Layouts: Added Radio (Vertical) and Radio (Horizontal) display options for picklist fields.
• Custom JS Injection: Developers can now specify a customJSFileName to inject specific logic into individual forms.
• Signature Styling: Expanded font support for signatures to include Segoe Script, Bradley Hand, and Snell Roundhand.

1. Multi-Step Progress Bar

• Users can now add a visual progress indicator to multi-page forms.
• Display Styles: Five distinct layout options (Segmented, Milestone, Dot, Line, and Circular).
• Custom Styling: Full control over progress bar colors, label colors, and font sizes (10px–32px).
• Dynamic Labels: Ability to define custom labels for each page of the form.
• Automatic Color Scaling: The system automatically generates active, completed, and incomplete states based on a single base color selection.

2. Advanced Caching Controls

• Enhanced performance and submission governance through new caching parameters:
• Form Load Cache: Configurable duration (0–300 mins) to speed up repeat form views.
• Form Submit Cache: Prevents duplicate submissions by restricting users from re-submitting a form for a specified timeframe.

3. New Picklist UI Components

• Added two new display options for Picklist fields to improve user experience on mobile and desktop:
• Radio (Vertical): Standard vertical stack for easy selection.
• Radio (Horizontal): A sleek, centered row layout designed for equal-width distribution.

4. Developer Customization

• Custom JS Injection: Support for a customJSFileName parameter, allowing for the execution of specific static resource JavaScript files for deep form customization.

1. RecordType Picklist Support

• Added support for RecordType Picklists, allowing forms to dynamically pull and display Salesforce record types as selectable options.

2. Advanced Security & UI Rendering

• Shadow DOM Implementation: Updated bzbInputField to use Shadow Root for rendering dynamic HTML content. This isolates custom-authored HTML/CSS from the parent component, preventing style leakage and improving security.
• Efficient Re-rendering: Introduced lastAppliedHtmlContent tracking to prevent unnecessary DOM updates when the content hasn't changed.

3. HealthCheck & System Monitoring

• Implemented a new HealthCheck response system (BZB_Web_HealthCheck) to provide real-time status updates on the application’s connectivity and configuration health.

4. Validation & Governance

• ValidationControlNumber: New logic added to handle complex validation sequences and control numbering.
• Payment Validation: Enhanced validation rules for payment fields to ensure data accuracy before submission.

1. Architectural Refactoring & Standardization

• LWC Renaming: Standardized all component folders and files from PascalCase/MixedCase (e.g., bZB_InputField) to lowercase/kebab-case (e.g., bzbInputField) to align with Salesforce best practices and ensure cross-OS compatibility.
• Namespace Cleanup: Updated all cross-component references to reflect the new naming schema (e.g., calling <c-bzb-input-field> instead of <c-b-z-b_-input-field>).

2. Enhanced Filter Management

• Dynamic Visibility Logic: Improved the BzbFilterManager to better handle fieldObjectVisible states based on whether a default Object API name is provided.
• Robust Data Mapping: Added safety checks for filterData objects during initialization to prevent null-pointer errors when loading saved filter logic.
• UI Improvements: Added dedicated CSS styling for "trash" (delete) actions and field containers in the bzbHiddenParameterFields component for a more intuitive builder experience.

3. Security & Exception Handling

• Custom Metadata Service: Refactored BZB_App_CustomMetadataService to streamline how the application interacts with protected configurations.
• Custom Exceptions: Centralized error handling via BZB_App_CustomException to provide cleaner, more secure error reporting that avoids exposing sensitive stack traces to the end-user.