If you use Alloy’s Reports feature, you’re going to love this month’s update! It took place during the evening of the 25th April. For a full list of changes in v2.58, please visit the Alloy Changelog.

Report Table Totals 🧮

This is a big new feature that many of you have been anticipating!

When editing flow documents in the Report Builder, we’ve added a new edit mode for Table controls. Among other things, this lets you add summary rows to the table that display calculated data values!

New Edit mode

To get started, select a Table control in the Document Layout Editor, and then select Edit in the toolbar.

The new edit mode makes it much easier to configure your table and includes some cool new features.

Easier header configuration

Previously, configuring a header was a somewhat laboured affair 😐. You had to select Headers in the toolbar, select the listed header, select a property field, and then supply either a Constant value or a Dynamic value from a data source.

Now, you simply select the header column and then select a property in the toolbar. No more Constant vs Dynamic, just choose an option or type something!

Reorder columns

Previously, you had to select Headers and drag them up and down a list. Now, you can simply drag columns by their header to reorder them.

Summary rows

Select + Add summary row to add one to the table. You add as many as you like and position them before or after the table’s data. Like the columns, you can reorder them by dragging.

Select a summary cell to configure it. Either input a Static text value or choose a Dynamic source, which can be any header in the table or another data source.

You then have the option of performing a calculation on the Dynamic source, e.g. Average, Count, Sum, Product, Standard Deviation. When the report is run, the calculated value will be displayed!

For more detail on the new edit mode for Table controls, check out Alloy Help.

Improved Title/Subtitle editor ⚡

When editing a design, you can select its Title or Subtitle property to show this editor. It lets you specify how items of the design are labelled. To include an attribute variable in either label, type { in its box and a list of suggested attributes appears.

Further down the list are parent Link attributes that either connect to the current design, or to an interface it implements. They may be located on a single parent design, or on an interface that's implemented by multiple parent designs.

The list now shows only valid parent attributes and clearly indicates which design(s) they’re located on. Additionally, the list no longer shows invalid child attributes, which were wrongly included before.

Longer passwords 🔑

Acting on the results of our yearly security tests, the minimum length for new passwords has increased from 8 to 12 characters. This only applies to passwords set from today (new accounts and password resets). Your existing passwords are unaffected.