What's New?

Improvements

• Added a button to public forms to copy a link with prefilled form data.

• Improved text area field element mention linking and navigation.

• Improved the usability of the visual scripting editor for formula creation.

• Added support for setting manually related Relationship fields with formulas in automations.

• Added support for matching on person fields and metadata to automatic relationships.

• Added COUNTNOTEMPTY and COUNTEMPTY functions to the formula engine.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with rending images in publicly shared forms.

• Fixed an issue with automations running on certain lookup field values.

Layer 4 is a major milestone release. It brings a refreshed UI, including an expanded color palette for select field options and user indicators, as well as a complete and powerful overhaul to Related Element, Spatial Relationship, Formula, and Lookup fields. The engine powering the new Formula field has also been added Automations, providing another was to modify and generate data on Layer elements.

New Relationships Field

The new Relationships field builds on the reliable utility of the original Related Elements field while adding support for automatically relating elements across categories based on criteria pulled from the elements themselves. The Relationships field display data in a mini-table view accessible directly in the element detail pane, making related data easy to find.

Relationship Types

• Manual - Manually relate elements between two categories by selecting elements in the project, just like the original Related Element field.

• Automatic - Build a set of filter criteria (think automatic lookups) referencing element data to return all matching elements. Automatic relationships compute based on live project data and instantly refresh when updated data is available.

• Spatial (Revit Categories only) - View the elements that are geometrically related to the given element, such as furniture in a room. Related elements can optionally be further filtered down with the same criteria available to automatic relationships.

New Formula Field

The new Formula field features a visual scripting editor with the ability to access and manipulate every type of data present within Layer projects. The new formula field is intended to work in conjunction with the new Relationships field to replace and expand upon the functionality previously supported by the Lookup field. Use the new Formula field to sum costs of furniture across rooms, pull user data from associated issues, or aggregate conditions from assessment items.

Formulas in Automations

The same engine and visual editor powering the new Formula field has also been added to the “Update Element Field” automation action, allowing users to write a custom formula to calculate a value at automation runtime and write that to an element’s field.

Expanded Color Palette

The expanded color palette, already used in field groups, is now supported in select field options and user profile displays. Update select field option colors from the field edit dialog and find the option to update your account’s display color from the user settings dialog.

Minor Improvements

• Added the ability to recover deleted elements from the Activity log.

• Added support for viewing panoramic images in publicly shared views.

• Improved performance of the project management dialog, particularly for larger projects.

• Improved performance of document view report exporting for single elements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with data cleanup.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with resolving values when using person fields in FormulaV2.

• Fixed a bug with displaying RelatedV2 field values in form views.

• Fixed a bug with backspace causing accidental node deletion in the FormulaV2 formula editor.

Improvements

• The use of FormulaV2 fields in automations was moved into beta testing.

Bug Fixes

• A bug with font handling in exported document view reports was fixed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with lookup values showing in document view

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with lookup fields not showing value in document views

• Fixed issue with API erroring on element requests

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing API queries to fail.

Improvements

• Added support for FormulaV2 fields in public views.

• Added support for Revit Parameter fields in FormulaV2 field formulas.

• Updated the underlying structure of automations to support the use of formulas when setting element field values in the future.

• Various optimizations were made to improve app performance, especially in project with many users.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several bugs causing issues with drawing view annotation thumbnail generation.

• Fixed a bug causing element version history to not be set correctly when a model had previously failed or cancelled versions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing view names changes to not be reflected in the UI.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing document views to crash when incomplete fields were present in the category.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where containers in document views were not aligning correctly

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where containers in document views were not aligning correctly

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing fewer than expected elements to show up in table and gallery views when no filters or sorts were applied.

• Fixed a bug causing non-default views to appear in the default category views list.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was causing the Element Sync Engine loading screen to appear more frequently than necessary.

• Fixed a bug with containers in document view not showing all their borders.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was preventing public links from loading correctly.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with archived elements causing empty rows in related elements tables in document view

Improvements

• Improved the performance of loading FormulaV2 field values in document views.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that allowed restricted users to edit element names when the name was not present in the current view.