🚀 April Recap: Database Triggers, Added Scale Plan Features, & More!

Check out all the new features, tutorials, and news from the past month  ‌ ‌ ‌    Hi everyone! We are blazing through the year and continuing to bolster the functionality of your Xano backend. We added many new features in April providing you with more power and control and improving the sharp UI. Additionally, we made massive additions to the Scale plans. We included premium add-ons that previously required additional purchases to the Scale plans for free! The community's feedback played a huge role in this change, we're confident the new features will give you the confidence you need to secure and scale your backend. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🌟 Highlights 🌟 ⚙️ Database Triggers Database triggers execute business logic based on a specific event that occurs in the database. Triggers utilize the same function stack as the No-Code API builder. You can set up triggers to run on inserts, updates, deletes, or truncates (table clears). Database triggers are configured on the database table. Check out the [documentation]( and tutorial to learn more. [Database Triggers]( 🚀 Full-Featured Scale Plan After listening to feedback from the community, we made some major [additions to the Scale plans](. Earlier this month we included Enterprise-grade features in all Scale plans at no extra cost. They include: - [Role Based Access Control]( - [Compliance Center]( - [Unlimited Background Tasks]( - [Unlimited Middleware]( - [Private Storage]( We wanted to ensure you have all the tools necessary to scale and secure with Xano. Interested in going beyond a Scale plan or hosting on your own cloud? [Talk to us]( about our recently updated Enterprise offerings. 💫 Self-Serve Backup & Restore Need to restore your instance from a backup? No need to contact support anymore - do it yourself! [Database Backup & Restore]( can be managed from your instance menu panel. You have control to: - Create a manual backup - Restore a backup - View backup history - Change backup policy (change the time at which your daily backups execute) - We'll be adding more capabilities to this over time! [Database Backup & Restore] 💪 Database UI Improvements We made a handful of updates to the database and spreadsheet editor. New Table Manager ViewsToggle between the traditional view and a list view. Also apply sorts by name, storage size, record count, created date, and filter by tags. [Database List View & Sort] New Edit Card ViewWhen editing a record, you can now use a new card view to focus and see all fields in one display. [Edit Card for Database Records] New Text Formatting OptionsText fields can now be defined by various formatting options: - Plain Text - YAML - HTML - XML - Markdown [New Text Formatting Options] 🌐 API Request History Improvements We introduced additional controls so you can manage your API request history. The new Branch Defaults panel allows you to adjust the following settings: - Enable/disable request history for APIs, Tasks, Middleware, Functions, or Triggers. - Adjust if individual statements are stored and the max number. - Additional filtering such as input and output size. - Audit or clear request history via Instance settings. Learn more in our [documentation](. [Granular API Request History Management] 🌓 Modular Theming Customize the theme of your Xano workspace with modular theming of light and dark mode. In case you like to mix and match, just click on your name or profile icon and configure your desired theme. [Modular Workspace Theming] --------------------------------------------------------------- 🏗️ Other Notable Product Enhancements - [NEW] Algolia - Query Algolia directly from the Xano function stack. - [NEW] Average Filter - We added a new filter, AVG, to quickly calculate the average of an array of numbers. - [NEW] Metadata API Enhancements - New functionality available through the Metadata API - Delete Branches - Import/Export of Branch and Database Schema - Webflow Integration Updated to v2 - Our Webflow integration migrated to their v2 API. - Concise Error Messages - Errors returned to caller provide minimal details. The debugger still shows the full details. This change is targeted to not disclose details of technology and database design to help security. - Edit Support in Debugger - We added support to edit function stack statements while inside the debugger. - Performance Warning on High Draft Count - High draft counts will trigger a warning that it could be impacting performance due to memory. Publishing is the recommended solution. --------------------------------------------------------------- 📺 Noteworthy New Tutorials - [No-Code vs Code: Which Builds Faster?]( - Take a side-by-side comparison of creating a backend with No-Code vs code. - [External Sorting: Dynamically Sort Queries]( - An updated tutorial on how to use external sorting for dynamically sorting queries. - [External Filtering: Dynamically Filter Queries](  - An updated tutorial on how to use external filtering for dynamically filtering queries. - [IP Address Lookup]( - Learn how to get geo location information with the IP Address Lookup function. --------------------------------------------------------------- 👷 Scale & Secure Workshops Last month we completed parts 1 and 2 of our Scale & Secure workshop series. We covered the Scaling Fundamentals in part 1 and a Deep Dive into Scaling and Security in part 2. Part 3 - Advanced Practices in Testing & Security Response Join us for part 3 on May 9th at 9 am PT for Advanced Practices in Testing and Security Response. 👉 [Register for the session here]( The recordings from the previous sessions will be made available in case you missed them! --------------------------------------------------------------- Have feedback on any of these excellent new features or in general? @ me at [community.xano.com]( to let me know about it. Are there other features you're dying to see come to Xano? Add it to our [feature requests]( or upvote it if it already exists there. -- Michael Udinski Developer Advocate Lead  [Twitter]( [Youtuve](  ©2024 Xano Inc. 20700 Ventura Blvd. Ste 210, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 [Don't like these emails? Unsubscribe.]()                              Â