The CMDBuild 3 Project

• Project launched at the beginning of 2017
• Version 3.0 released on April 12^th, 2019
• 12 man-years of development
• Actually a new product: 100% rewritten user interface, 90% rewritten server code

User interface

• Complete rewriting of the user interface, both for the Data Management and the Administration Module
• Minimal, clean and light graphics, in line with web design trends

• Smooth navigation, with very fast response times
• Always available the information and the useful functions for the specific context

New layout

• List of data cards at full-page, with in-line tab preview
• Complete management of data cards in the popup window
• Card tabs converted into field-sets

• Attributes on multiple columns
• Possibility to have in-line in the data cards other elements: notes, relations, lists
• Homogeneous interfaces in the Relation Graph, GIS, BIM

Data cards editing

• Possibility to define validation criteria on each attribute, also in relation to other attributes, with control during the editing
• Possibility to indicate different display patterns by type of attribute (dates or times in multiple formats, numbers with alignments and units of measurement, etc.)

• Possibility to hide or make an attribute non-editable, dynamically accordingly to the data entered
• Help string on each attribute

Configuration of custom logics

• Contextual menus to start useful functions at specific moments, even with a user interface
• Widgets (data cards and processes) configurable in the Ext JS language and therefore extensible and contributable by third parties
• Trigger forms to pre-populate a data card at the opening and to perform custom functionality at the confirmation
• Script for the overall validation of the page

• Custom pages
  • Allow the creation of completely customized user interfaces that operate with complex logics
  • Can implement any operation on the CMDB
  • Can include all types of controls: data tables, forms, buttons, graphics, etc.
  • Can reuse components of the standard GUI
  • Are programmed in javascript language, with the same Sencha Ext JS framework used by CMDBuild

User preferences

• New page for user preferences settings
• Possibility to choose the default language

• Possibility to choose other options: date format, time format, decimal separator, thousands separator
• Other preferences planned for next 3.x versions: positioning at the application access, sorting and configuration of data grids

New workflow engine

• New "Tecnoteca River" workflow engine, more agile and better controllable, which joins Enhydra Shark
• Much better performances
• Graphic highlighting of the "status" of the process

• Graphic highlighting of the choice of the "action" with which advancing the process
• Possibility to have different engines for different processes
• Possibility to migrate process instances from Shark to River

Multitenant

• Allows to manage, in the same CMDBuild instance, different entities that are part of the same organization
• Partitioning both complete and partial
• Possibility of access by adding the permits of several tenants

• Partitioning both based on an application class (company, location, customer, etc.) and on more complex logics implemented in a database function
• Control based on the native RLS (Row Level Security) mechanism of PostgreSQL

REST and SOAP webservices

• New V3 version of the REST webservice to access the contents and functions of the Data Management Module
• Extension of the REST V3 webservice to access the contents and functions of the Administration Module
• Guaranteed compatibility with the previous REST V2 and SOAP webservices

Software Quality

• Complete refactoring of the server code with new internal development standards
• Complete rewriting of client code with new internal development standards (starting from a complete prototype of the user interface)
• Automatic server-side tests (integration tests, over 300 tests on webservices repeated at each commit)
• Automatic client-side tests (over 100 complex tests on the user interface repeated at each commit)

Service Monitoring (available soon)

• Control panel of hardware resources and services

Other functionalities (available soon)

• Import / export of CSV files with new functionalities
• General search in the database and in the emails
• Push messaging
• Views built with visual JOIN between tables

• Time slider
• Dashboards (temporarily unavailable)
• GIS thematic mapping (temporarily unavailable)
• Connector “orchestration” system with external systems