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Published on : 23 October 2024

The end of 2019 is approaching and with this, also the last Product Update of the year. And what a year it has been - especially when we’re talking “product”! Two major product launches with Umbraco 8 and Umbraco Heartcore. 2019 also saw a record-breaking amount of PRs submitted, mainly due to a record-shattering Hacktoberfest 🙌 It’s absolutely amazing to see how much Umbraco 8 has evolved in the past 10 months, not least thanks to the friendly and very productive Umbraco community. I cannot wait to see what happens in 2020! But, before we get to that, let’s have a look at what we’ve been working on and what you can expect in the near future.

New Release: Forms API & Content Filtering for Umbraco Heartcore

December 17th, we released two new features for our headless saas offering, Umbraco Heartcore; Form API and Content Filtering.

Forms API
You’ll find that the REST API has been expanded to include forms created with Umbraco Forms. This means you can create forms (contact forms, questionnaires etc.) directly in the backoffice, complete with conditionals and validation, and get all you need to render these forms in your presentation layer. All you need to do is include a form on a content node using the Form Picker and you’ll see the form data necessary to render the form as part of the JSON response - you can also retrieve forms independent of content. This also includes endpoints for posting form entries, so they will be stored in your Heartcore project and can utilise multi-step workflows.

Content filtering
The REST API also includes a new endpoint for content delivery that lets you do more advanced filtering. Previously, if you wanted to filter content based on a search term, you could utilise the search endpoint. This is still possible, and useful, but if you want to be more precise and filter the content server side before it’s returned, the new filter endpoint might be what you’re looking for. Let’s say you only want to retrieve content of a specific Document Type that contains a specific phrase in a specific property.

What's new on Umbraco Cloud

If you have an organisation set up on Umbraco Cloud, you’ll find that the overview of projects and members of an organisation has been given an overhaul to provide you with a better overview. This is done in line with the overall brand “make-over”of the Umbraco Cloud portal which we released in November. You’ll now see easy access to the different views for your organisation in a menu on the left.