AppGini 25.11 released -- Introducing mobile apps via PWA

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New features

• For an in-depth look at the new features, check out the AppGini 25.11 in-depth look blog post.
• AppGini apps can now be installed as mobile apps (PWA) from browsers that support this feature (Chrome for Android, Safari for iOS). Video: How to install your AppGini app as a mobile app
• Greatly improved mobile layout and usability. Video: AppGini 25.11 mobile layout and usability improvements
• Enhanced filters page UI and usability. Video: AppGini 25.11 filters page UI and usability improvements
• Allow users to personalize the app theme and font size from their profile page. Video: AppGini 25.11 theme and font size personalization

UI/UX enhancements

• Added maxlength attribute to textareas, rich text, numeric and time fields to prevent users from entering more than the allowed number of characters.
• Fixed some layout issues for navbar buttons and text.
• Add some missing help entries in project properties window
• If guest tries to access profile page, they're now redirected to login page, with 403 status (instead of home page previously).
• If logged user tries to access sign-in page, they're now redirected to homepage to avoid confusion.
• Fixed font size of calculated field query (was too small on some screen resolutions)
• Enhance nicEditor (rich text editor) icons and styling for clarity in various themes

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug with detecting content of required rich areas.
• Fixed error in apply_persisting_children() that occured in detail view print preview pages that have child tables.
• Fixed reported html validity issue in WindowMessages class.
• Fixed field focus when DV is inside a modal window
• Graceful abort when unable to load AppGini config due to multiple AppGini processes
• Fixed repeated error message related to reading AppGini config when 2 or more instants of AppGini are open.
• Fix clipboard content indicator

Security fixes

• Revamped client-side password strength checker to be more robust, and to prevent using common passwords.

Server-side programmatic improvements

• Added FILTERS_PER_GROUP constant to definitions.php. This constant defines the maximum number of filters that can be added to a single group in the filters page. The default value is 4.
• Added cleanUpMembershipUserRecords() to clean up membership_userrecords table by removing records that no longer exist in user-space tables.

Client-side programmatic improvements

• Added AppGini.config.appTitle to retrieve the application title via client-side JS.
• Refactored common.js to use AppGini.config.appTitle instead of hard-coded app title.
• Added AppGini.handleLightbox() function to replace Lightbox library with a bootstrap carousel in a modal window. Initializes the lightbox functionality for elements with data-lightbox attributes. If you have custom code using Lightbox, make sure it has a data-lightbox attribute in order for it to continue working.
• Removed prototype.js, Scriptaculous and Lightbox JS components to reduce page load time and improve client-side performance.
  
  BREAKING CHANGE: If you have custom code that depends on any of these components, you need to rewrite it to remove those dependencies.
• Updated the source code documentation for modal_window() to JSDoc style (works better with VSCode).
• BREAKING CHANGE Added AppGini.noDVPanel() to prepend xs- to all panel classes in DV in mobile view. If you have custom code depending on panel classes in DV, you need to adjust selectors accordingly.
• Apply AppGini.config.timeFieldMinutesStep to time picker popup in addition to input group buttons.
• Updated AppGini.focusFormElement to accept an optional third parameter so that it becomes AppGini.focusFormElement(tn, fn, noDelay). If noDelay is set to false, a delay of 500 msec is applied before focusing, which is useful for focusing elements inside modals after waiting for the modal to fully load.
• Added new hidden-browser CSS class to hide an element in browser mode, showing it only if the app is running in standalone (PWA) mode. Also added hidden-standalone, hidden-pwa and hidden-app CSS classes to show an element only in browser mode, hiding it in standalone (PWA) mode.

Other changes

• Refactored dynamic.css to consolidate rtl rules, compact rules, and mobile-specific rules
• Added option in AppGini setup to launch AppGini after setup has finished