What's New
If you've been a long time Canvas user, you can catch up on all the changes and improvement that have been made right here!
June 7, 2021 (release 3.5.1)
New loading screen element
To use the loading screen element, you would need to first upgrade the Canvas UI Elements plugin version in your app to at least v1.4.0. The element allows you to display a loading animation while your page's elements and data are being loaded beneath. You will want to include this on every page where you want this behavior and have it be visible by default.
The element can be found under Visual elements. You can find details on how to set it up here.
The loading element is active on the Admin portal by default.
Deprecated the popup_reusable element
The popup_reusable element has been deprecated. The elements it housed were either not being used often, or are now available elsewhere:
popup_signup/login - available as a standalone reusable
HTML loader - replaced by the Loading screen element
messagePopup - not being used often and removed from the template
May 24, 2021 (release 3.5.0)
Added Postmark as an email provider
We’ve just released an update which allows seamless integration of Postmark into Canvas apps. Postmark is known for prioritizing deliverability and cutting down on spam sent from their service so that your emails are more likely to get into your users’ inboxes instead of landing in their spam boxes.
Enable Postmark on new Canvas apps via the flow seen under Emails & Alerts.
To enable this on older versions of canvas, please go to your Bubble editor and upgrade the plugin version for ‘Email for Canvas’ (the plugin used to be called SendGrid for Canvas, but we changed the name with this release).
There is backward compatibility with old Canvas apps which allows your existing SendGrid flow to keep working the same way it was working on the previous plugin version when you upgrade the SendGrid plugin. In older Canvas apps, setting up Postmark takes some extra effort, but is much easier than adding a new plugin to your app.
Note that Postmark is primarily used as a transactional email service, and that our Postmark integration requires some modifications to support marketing emails. Postmark also has more stringent requirements for email quality than SendGrid, primarily measured by the portion of spam reports received relative to the total number of messages sent.
Converted various things to reusable elements
In the admin page, we’ve converted some (more) things to reusable elements to make it easier to edit the functionality in just one place and to follow the build pattern we’ve used in the rest of the admin page.
The data type 1 tab content is now a reusable element called admin_datatype1, and it currently contains Dummy data. To use this with a new data object, you would clone this reusable and Group Nav 8 - Data type 1 content in the admin portal. You would replace admin_datatype1 in the new group with the new reusable
User filters in the admin portal is also now a reusable element called filters_users.
Added new UI to settings tab in the admin portal (e.g. sample single field and sample picklist)
For this, we’ve created a new reusable element called admin_options_settings .
You can now include app-wide settings here that can be easily managed from the front-end (e.g. single field or a picklist). For more information on how to use these, please read our documentation here.
Page Builder
New marketing page backgrounds We've added 6 new marketing page backgrounds to the page builder.
New hero blocks We've added 10 new hero blocks to the page builder. You can mix and match these new hero blocks with other page builder blocks and create beautiful marketing pages.
March 30, 2021 (release 3.4.0)
Base Template
All new styles (version 003)
We've revamped our entire library of styles and this Canvas update comes with more than 300 new Bubble styles! Most page elements now have access to at least three different styles with support for different font weights (regular, semibold, and bold).
Consolidated legal page
The previous Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy pages have been deprecated. The content from both of these pages has been consolidated into a single legal page.
Log in page redesigned
We've made some minor design updates to the log in page to better align with the design of the marketing and index pages.
New Customizable Blocks
Page Flair Group This page-level group includes a collapsible image banner, title, description, and toggle tabs. This group should be used when you want to further customize a page.
Block Title Group Most blocks will now come with a title group that includes a title, dropdown, toggle tabs, description text, sort dropdown, filters, and a new button. This group should be used when you need to add a title group above a section of content.
Chrome Extension
Along with the new styles, we have added a brand new design library of all the Canvas pages and blocks. These elements will be used for all new Canvas templates.
If your app is on a version previous to v3.4.0 you can continue to add new pages & blocks from the extension and the elements added will be add with the style version your app is based on.
However, if you would like to take advantage of the new styles and elements, you will see a banner prompting you to import the new styles (003). Once you've imported the new styles you are able to toggle between the new design library and and the old design library to add new elements.
December 29, 2020 (release 3.0.0)
Admin Portal Redesigned
This Canvas update comes with host of new features as well as a full redesign of the admin portal. Be sure to check out the admin portal overview in the Getting Started section.
Page Builder
You can now create beautiful HTML marketing pages directly within the admin portal using the new Canvas Page Builder!
Chrome Extension
We have changed the way you add new Bubble pages to your application. You can now use the new Canvas Extension to add new Bubble pages & blocks directly within your editor.
Pages option set updated
We have made a couple key changes to the Pages option set.
The Pages option set has been renamed to Bubble Pages to differentiate it from the new Marketing pages feature
Previously we stored a list of Bubble Pages on the Role option set to define the pages a user was allowed to view. To simplify this, the Bubble Pages option now stores the list of Roles that can view that page enabling you to set a page's privacy status and define the roles that are allowed to view that page from the same place.
Fewer nested groups
We realize in the past that Canvas blocks contained a lot of extra groups nested within other groups. As of this release, we have rebuilt all the Canvas blocks to minimize the number of groups that are used while still maintaining a fully responsive template!
Send custom Sendgrid emails on a hobby plan
With a brand new Sendgrid plugin we have moved the default email functionality to the front end instead of the using backend workflows. This means you can now send emails through Sendgrid with our beautiful HTML template without being on a paid Bubble plan.
The backend email functionality is still available for more robust email setups and scheduling.
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