UX Improvements and the best Access management mechanism !
The power of the graph for custom access management
This is one of the greatest feature we have added so far. Custom Graph-based access management is just great. And it works perfectly because we sit on top of a graph database.
Custom Graph Access
The concept is the following: for each type of information (node and relationship) we allow you to define a graph query which if it resolved allows access. By default, Ganister has generic permissions to give access to information to specific groups. But sometimes, and it usually happens when you want to give access to external partners, the access rule is a bit more complex and the only way to describe it is by drawing it on a whiteboard. The cypher query we write to implement this is the next step. Easy to write, easy to understand and performant.
By providing the following Cypher query, any user member of a company for whom you are delivering parts and documents will have access to it without having any other generic access.
MATCH (u)-[:memberOf]->(:company)<-[:forCustomer]-(:project)-[:delivers|contains|isDocumentedWith*]->(n)
UX Improvements
Where-used
The new where use feature is great, it is giving quick information about all the connections of a node. Thanks to the graph database, it is also performant has you don't to navigate n relationship tables like you would have to do with a relational database (SQL).
ECO Impact Matrix
Getting customers active on the ECO is giving us a lot of interesting usability feedback. The bigger Impact Matrix get, the more any UX glitch becomes an issue. We simplified the actions you can take on an ECO and we added visual helpers to identify similar elements from the before and the after grid.
String properties formatting
We added a small feature requested by a customer. For homogeneity, they wanted some fields to always be capitalized. Therefore we added a format feature on string properties which allows to set a specific formatting.
Open Ganister with a specific node
When you assign someone on a task, this person can receive an email notification. Until now, the message was just text. We now added a link to ganister with the information to directly open the node related to the assignment.
Server Enhancements
Importing Files with our dataloader
We recently demonstrated it on our youtube channel, you can now not only import data (nodes and relationships) using our dataloader. You can also import files.
Reporting Engine enhancements [Open Source]
This might not be well known but our reporting engine is completely open source and independant from Ganister. It can be useful for anyone using neo4j and wants to build table reports from a graph database. We implemented a few improvements lately with the capability to pass a timezone and various fixes like handling null values for string properties.
