Our platform and technology is constantly evolving

Why

The debug tools that Blueriq already offers include the ability to view the profile with instances, relationships, and attribute values from a page. However, the lack of pages in Blueriq web services means that this profile insight is missing. Therefore, we aim to provide this insight for web services as well.

What

It will be possible to take a snapshot of the profile at any point in a flow. This snapshot will be written to a designated log file. Additionally, it will be possible to read these snapshots back into Blueriq Encore, for example, to test your logic or data mapping.

Why

As part of our ongoing effort to improve user experience for Blueriq Encore users, it is now time to support the highly requested functionality: undo/redo. This will enhance the sense of control and freedom for the Business Engineer by making it easier to recover from mistakes during modeling.

What

It will be possible for Business Engineers to undo changes made in Blueriq Encore. In addition to the existing ability to undo a 'pending change' at the element level and cancel unsaved changes, the undo feature will be more refined: it will allow for step-by-step reversal of multiple user actions within an element.

Why

The design-time import of an XSD or WSDL file to create or call a SOAP service has been available for years in the Blueriq platform. This functionality has proven itself time and again: it saves time, enables faster innovation at lower costs, and makes the business engineer's work easier and more enjoyable.

What

Despite the growing popularity of JSON-based services, calling and creating them is still a manual process. To minimize this cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone task, we are implementing an import feature for calling and creating JSON-based REST services.

Why

Although the value 'null' is not recognized in the Blueriq profile, we still encounter it through REST messages. Currently, an incoming 'null' in Blueriq is always accepted and interpreted as a value that has been intentionally left empty: user set unknown. The inability to reject a 'null' value is currently not easily possible, and we want to change that to gain more control over the data that enters the Blueriq profile.

What

We will make it possible to specify for each field (in a domain schema) whether 'null' is allowed. This choice will be adopted during the OpenAPI import and communicated in the OpenAPI feed to the outside world as well.

Why

By providing an overview of unused elements in Encore, these can be removed from a model, resulting in a higher-quality model. This improves maintainability and reduces costs for maintenance and new features.

What

The solution provides the Business Engineer in Blueriq Encore with an overview of unreachable elements. An element is considered unreachable if it cannot be recursively found via an exposed flow or web service. It will also be possible to manually mark elements as reachable, for example, in cases where these elements are used in custom implementations.

Why

Blueriq applications are often mission-critical and play a central role in our customers' IT landscapes. Due to their strategic position in complex environments, performance issues can have a significant impact. However, identifying the root cause of these bottlenecks is not always straightforward. Delays often occur in connections to other systems or databases, but pinpointing the exact bottleneck can be challenging.  

What 

Why are we doing this?

At Blueriq, we have years of experience defining and reusing components within our models, ensuring a high level of adaptability and consistency. This includes interaction components like container types, fields, presentation, and content styling. This aligns seamlessly with the principles of design systems, which focus on components, UX patterns, and design tokens. More and more of our clients are translating their design systems into Blueriq models, and we are making this translation even easier. By intelligently combining our Blueriq UI elements, we enhance flexibility, improve maintenance, and strengthen the consistency of your Blueriq interaction models.

What are we planning?

With support for design systems in Blueriq, we are providing you with the tools to leverage the power of consistent styling and layout components. By combining these elements in the right way, there are ample opportunities to implement UX patterns that elevate the user experience. And because we further decouple pages from the data, you can easily distribute your design system across all your projects. This ensures consistency and flexibility, both now and in the future.